It was 5am and still dark when we set off along a steep farm track in the heart of Belvidere. The countryside was silent, not a cricket stirred, and only the sound of our feet tramping through rough grass and over stone disturbed the absolute serenity of the morning. We walked for around half-an-hour. A [...]
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Fedon’s Camp
Posted: 27th January 2010 by paulcrask in Travel journalTags: Fedon, Fedon’s Camp, Grenada, hiking
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The boatman calls himself Nature Boy. He rows standing up in the stern of his colourfully painted wooden skiff, on the look-out for a boa he saw yesterday that was resting on the pale and twisted branch of a bloodwood tree. I am seated on a damp bench in front of him. The river disappears [...]
Life in the Fest Lane
Posted: 30th September 2009 by paulcrask in Travel journalTags: Dominica, Dominica Cuisine, Dominica heritage, Layou, Titiwi Fest
I was at Layou village on Sunday, enjoying the second annual Titiwi Fest. The food was great; an imaginative variety of dishes included titiwi ackras, steamed titiwi, smoked titiwi sancoche, titiwi pie, titiwi pizza, and there was, apparently, even titiwi punch (I decided to stick to Kubuli). But the thing that struck me most about [...]