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 [...]
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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 [...]
Discovering Dominica
Posted: 28th June 2009 by paulcrask in Travel journalTags: Dominica, Dominica travel
When I tell people where I live, many, perhaps even most of them, imagine a different place altogether. And so did I before I came here. Having youthfully backpacked with the best of them, I was more than a little irked to discover my knowledge of the globe had a flaw. It seemed I had [...]