25th May 2025......Mother's day (France and here!) Port Louis and Le Moule

This is a MANGO tree....

Beach and breakers at 

Le Moule

A breadfruit tree

Lying under a palm tree on the beach...uuuummm😎

It's about 32⁰C 🥵

Lunch...a takeaway 

Creole style meal....

From Kreole Food in Port-Louis

A ancient cane sugar...factory.

Which, as it was Sunday wasn't open for tours, but we were invited to walk the grounds for free, and some of the buildings were open...

Dave at top of ruined windmill.

A lathe

Much art on display, a lot featured the awful conditions that slaves were forced to endure.

Dave relaxing on a hollowed out log, swing seat.

Me too!

Selling flowers at the side of the road (it was mother's day!)

A turtle 🐢 🐢 🐢 

A cow....they seem to be staked to the ground all over the place....none were touching 😢

A typical inland island house. 

These plants have found a new host to grow on...telephone/electric wires!

Normally you find them in trees.

24th May 2025..."Our " beach and others

Here is our local beach at

 la petite harve

Pelican flying over

Pelican on the sea

Relaxing in the shade!

Video link to crabs on beach..

Crabs

chucking sand!

The beach at St Annes...just down the road..this is the mess and stench of rotting sea algae.

Called Sargassum.

It's been getting worse each year, fertilised by run off from USA and Mexico into the rivers which feed into the sargasso sea.

We saw (and smelt ) much worse than this, it gives of Sulfer dioxide and ammonia and can be dangerous to people with breathing problems.

23rd May 2025.... we've arrived...balcony, breakfast and beach.

We get upgraded to this spacious apartment, with double balcony!

As we haven't bought any food yet, we go to the local Boulanger for breakfast 🥞 

First visit to the beach 

An iguana crosses our path on the way back.

Roughly a metre long!

Dave found Gwada beer at the supermarket.

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22nd May 2025...en route Guadeloupe.

Air France to Paris then on to Guadeloupe.

On board the flight to Guadeloupe.....

Dave gets champers!

I get water!

First sighting over the Caribbean...

not looking very 😎 

Me arriving in style in the glass lift at Point a Pitre airport.

21st May 2025. Leaving day.. Charlie,

Toulouse tonight then to the airport tomorrow.

Charlie pleads to come with us...

But is happy with a cuddle.

Some flooded fields we passed en route to Toulouse.

We stayed in L'Ogandi, it was a good place for the night, several restaurants nearby, including themselves. We went out to le Layaja an Indian restaurant...(V nice.)

Staff were impeccable and m'y low cal, vegetarian breakfast, was more than Dave had! But the shower was only accessable OVER the toilet in our room!

18th May 2025... Charlie, packing and Anne and Robert.

Charlie 

He wants to come to Guadeloupe!

Anne and Robert 

En route to here.

17th May 2025...cats, view

On our daily walk

So, so tired!