A room with a view

These pictures are the view from my villa....not bad to get the endless ocean and a volcano

Sunny days

Top picture is a fishing boat on the Carbet beach and the bottom is one of the schools I worked at, kind of distracting when you are trying to teach and you can see the ocean out the window

St Pierre at lunch

These were a couple of the places I would eat my baguette sandwhich while on my lunch break

Capital Buildings

The top building is the main library in Fort de France (the capital), impressive on the outside but only holding about 50 English books on the inside, of which 22 are British romance novels, 15 are mouldy classics that no one has read in 20 years and 1 is the real life story of a London prostitute.

Call of the wild

Just down at the bottom of Beef hill is a beautiful river in jungle. So my housemates and friends and I recruited some Martiniquen men with machetes
to show us the way to a 3-tier waterfall. I felt like I was stepping back 50 years before Martinique had big box stores and huge highways and never- ending traffic jams. And then when we got to the spot where one of the guys is building a cabin by the waterfall we got to enjoy some of the fruits of the jungle.

Ste. Marie

There pictures are from Ste Marie, the little town my Irish friend lived in. Not a bad place to be buried, with a view of the sea and all. The plam trees are hiding a famous rum distillery.

My kids

These are the sometimes cute, sometimes annoying, always hyper kids I taught in one class. Picture on the top is in normal clothes, picture on the bottom is them all dressed up in the traditional Martinique clothes for "old folks are coming to the school to teach you about your culture" day.