Easter weekend Dominica (1)

This year I spent Easter weekend in Dominica, a small island about the size of Martinique but with much less inhabitants, north of Martinique. It's two hours by boat to get there, but counting in the waiting hours and passing customs on Dominica, it's an indepent island, it takes about 5 hours. It was interesting to sea the coastline of Martinique as we sailed along the northern half of the island. Once there we rented a car, yeah yeah I'm all grown up now, because there was almost no public transport during the Easter holidays. All shops were closed almost the whole time we were there as well. But we drove around at the left side of the road in our 4x4 and saw amazingly beautiful places. The first day we went snorkeling at Champagne Beach, we saw colourful fishes and bubbles as if the water was champagne because it's a volcanic island (like Martinique) and hot water bubbles up in the ocean there. After our swim I discovered big bright green iguanas in the bush near the beach.

On the road we stopped for lunch at a local food stall where we met our first Dominicans, drunk because it's a holiday weekend but super friendly, even more than in Martinique. It was funny but good to speak English again. In Martinique I'm usually the only non native French speaker and it can get tiring sometimes. But now I was the one communicating more easily and I enjoyed chitchatting with the locals. It's interesting to hear people from Guadeloupe or Martinique talk to Dominicans. They don't speak English and most Dominicans don't speak French but they both speak Creole and I learned that they actually understand each other very well.

All along the road from Roseau to the beach and later further to Scottshead to watch the sunset the landscape was green and lush and the road goes up and down and is narrow and in not very good shape, let's say in between Belgian roads and Tanzanian roads, but much narrower.