Day Three

Day three 5/10/07
Weather around 25 C cooler with some breeze – a welcome relief
Today has been really good for me, In the afternoon I started on my work with AWH to find some good questions coming up which I need to delve deep to find the answers.

After rising at 6 a.m. Bernie and I went for our first walk down the hill, little houses dotted around in the locality of our walk made for interesting viewing, people live in such a variety of housing some concrete structures of one breeze block thick walls painted pinks, greens or whites, some unfinished, and a lot made from plywood. As we walked down the hill we met people going to work, school children and local characters all looking interested in ‘the white woman’ here out in the country I am a bit of an interest to them. Everyone speaks and says ‘good morning’ as we pass by and we make our way down the hill to the local school at the end of the gravel road, continuing on to the left we make our way on dirt track which runs through a large banana plantation.

After half an hour we turn for home now with the hill to face, its very steep and I have to stop three times to catch my breath before reaching home, its 7-30 a.m. and I am dripping with sweat, I only have one goal and that’s to get into the shower and into the pool, 5 minutes later there I am drifting around the pool buoyed up by the floaty thing I bought yesterday, everything seems just perfect. Bernie joins me for a bit and then after breakfast decides to head off for town and check out the routes with the local minibuses, which we will now use since we gave the car back. He has gone for the day as everything takes time here. I phone Cable and Wireless who have still yet to respond with their promise of help to get on the internet within 24 hours, 56 have gone by without even a return phone call, now we are going into the weekend so nothing until Monday, oh well that’s St Lucia for you, charming, beautiful, crazy and late. It’s all-inclusive, as Bernie would say.



Even though I have been here many times over the years living here for several months at a time sometimes, I still have not got the mosquito thing sorted, they always bite the hell out of me and yet again I am itching, I use the natural organic sprays and for me they just don’t work, I have taken to covering every inch of my body tonight in the hopes that I get no more bites until I can get some stronger spray, not great I know being into health and all that but what to do? Ho Hum…

Well that’s all for today
Love Caroline