Thursday 26 May 2011

Water Taxi - Soufriere, St Lucia



Water Taxis are only way (if you ignore cars, buses, coaches) to get around St Lucia and if you come across George he sells the freshest just picked pineapples too.



He travels really really slowly, which he suggests is to save petrol....



It normally takes five minutes to speed across the Souffriere Bay - with George its at least half hour.



This works out rather well if your not in a hurry and want to take everything in...



Both of us were Happy and Dazed, both of us for different reasons.



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Monday 23 May 2011

Bread + Cheese Plant - St Lucia



Its always rather boring in English Gardens hearing mothers-in-law drone on and on about the beauty of the Begonias they cherish.



In St Lucia they call it the bread and cheese plant and at Boucan Restaurant they add the dainty little flowers to the most divine salads.



Bread and Cheese - so much more fun than Begonias.



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Chateau Mygo / Marigot Bay - St Lucia



Watching the sun go down, drinking Piton beer, a fantastically economic lunch of shrimp roti and getting roundly beaten at dominoes by a beautiful woman. Nothing could be finer.



I may be some time.



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Sunday 22 May 2011

Cacao Adventure - Hotel Chocolat / St Lucia



Wow what a day.



Visiting a cacao plantation is one thing spending it with some of the worlds experts and getting every little question answered is another.



Alphonsus and Cuthbert are engaging and excited hosts, passionate about doing things the right way however long it takes. I spent quite some time learning to graft one sapling to another, time discussing the differences between ICS 95 and ICS 1 strains of trinitario beans and a lot of time with my mouth wide open in amazement at what a wonderful thing it is to work in the field of chocolate.



To top that in the afternoon we made bars from beans direct from the Rabot Estate with ace chef Jon and then dined on fine cacao cuisine at the Boucan Restaurant.



More fun than you can shake a chocolate covered stick at!



And my bean to bar bar was waiting for me as lunch finished- I popped it out of the mould straight into my mouth! perfect... well for a first timer!



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Mrs Theresa's Bakery - Soufriere / St Lucia



Still thinking about these little lovelies days after the cookie jar ran empty.



Go find them - its worth the effort.



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Container Cafe - Hackney Wick / Olympic Park Borders.



A very good coffee and the worlds most exciting view.



Just thinking about those glory days of next summer gives me goose bumps already.



If you need me I'll be here.



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Farmers Market - Soufriere / St Lucia



Although some stalls are open most days of the week on saturday morning from 6am till about 10am the farmers market in Souffiere really comes alive.



Open back trucks full to falling with bananas compete with grizzled fishermen with wheelbarrows full of fish, ladies frying breakfast and an enterprising youth with barrels of petrol. Every Lucian crop is here; love apples & wax apples papaya & pineapple, mango, melon & many spring onions!



What I couldn't find however was cacao or cacao pulp. The search continues!



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Sunday 1 May 2011

Chewing Gum Art - Wobbly Bridge



I've often heard tales of the nutty chewing gum artist who lays prostrate across the streets of Crouch End, causing chaos on a busy high-street whilst he paints the flattened gum of others. Looks like he's moved up in the world. Cross the wobbly bridge form tate to st Paul's and little works of wonder flood the bridge. Charming and oddball.. like all the finer things in life.



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Foodie Graffiti



As you amble along the canal after brunch at the container cafe keep your head down .. not because this is a dangerous part of town (it isn't any more!) but because someone has taken the time and love to highlight all the wild garlic, brambles, herbs and fruits that dot the pathway. Take a basket with you ... today lunch is on London.

If only id thought of it myself.



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Charles Lamb - Royal Wedding Street Party



Hobby and Cammi you did us proud. Such a wonderful day, the food was perfect the cocktails were strong and milly won first prize in the dog competition. Britain should be proud. London shone.



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