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Large private gailiboats, in the harbour at
Charlotte::Amal"le on St, Thomas, in the U.S.
BY SUSAN W1f1TE
The .great thing about travel is that thL
unexpected always happens. We had our
French lunch, in an American city..
Charlotte Amalie on St, Thomas in, the
Virgin islands.
In a high ceilinged. plaster and brick
restored building off an alley downtown,
the restaurant was called L`Esgargot, cool,
restful land serving the best cold potato
soup I've ever tasted.
The restaurant was., next to snorkeling
and swimming ata white sand beach all
=riling, the highlight of our day in; St.
Thomas. 'While the island, (especially the
beaches) is beautiful, downtown Charlotte
Amalie is like a big city mall the Saturday
before Christmas, Harried, shoppers,
looking for bargains,' were from the nine
different cruiseshipsin harbour at the duty
free port.
'41 try never to go downtown °i, the man
at the scuba. 'equipment shop told us
proudly when we asked for directions. His
attitude seemed shared by most of the
newer residents of the US territory.
They`.tte people who have taken big wage
` cuts in exchange for a warm :climate and
relaxing lifestyle in a move to the V.I. from
continental U.S.
. A PARADISE?
St. Thomas, downtown excluded,
looks like ' a •paradise:..English spoken,
American money and customs, easy..but
living:. costs are high, there's always a
shortage of water and jobs.
Still, our snorkeling guide, a V I. resident
for 13 weeks who'd left an executive job in
the northern U.S., hadno regrets at ail.
• Although it's:411 South America, Caracas,
Venezuela shared North American hustle
and bustle with St. Thomas. We, hit ,
Virgin Islands.
rr�er��an poradise
Carnival time in Caracastoo so none of the
stores or historic sites we wanted to see
'ere open, And. Carnival celebrations xvere
chiefly .at night, when our ship was •
long gone.
So our ins°olvementth the city was
limited to art hour'sdrive each way from ..
our port to downtown anda: slow walk
around the old part of the city of 3 milli!
Plaza Bolivar,
Helpful people gave us directions and
got us on the right bus to get back to the
ship but, Caracas wasn't a big hit with our
gang. Picture downtown Toronto on a hot
Sunday in July and you're close:
Then too the poverty in oil rich
Venezuela is hard to take. How do you
'corrie"to'terms with long lines of big, shiny
air conditioned cars in traffic jams on the
way to the beach which pass hillsides frill of
'houses that are almost shacks and women
doing the wash at streams beside the
expressway? �.
The tiny corner of Venezuela we saw
looked poorer than any of the .islands
visited.
Maybe because we stopped there first
when he whole trip;. was- ,new: to -us.
metnoaries of Aruba are a little dim. We'
flew into the Dutch island's capital city,
Oranjestad the Sunday. before Lent, and,
ydu guessed it, ran into Carnival.
The narrow main streets of the city were
filled With the 'longest parade 1 ve ever
seen. Hardly anybody was . watchingg..
everybody', from kids to old people„ was tri
it. It moved really slowly, hardly at n11 in
the hot sun. Everybody wore long, heavy
elaborate costumes and ` when things
stopped, everybody including tourists,
;lanced to swinging Caribbean music.
Beer. punch, tum and wine were ttowing
and` everybody si'as really happy.' We didn't '
havetime to get to any of the desert -like
is?anit s long beaches and thestores were
all closed for the parade but the giant party
was a good way to start our cruise.
1 would have hated to be around on
Monday though when everyone woke ttp
nursing hangovers.
With one of the churchs whichover look, St. George's,..'Grenada "in :the
background, a bright painted open air bus leaves the island's biggest city
at the end of a work day. St. George's harbour is at right, out of the
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