Trip up to north

Friday morning (around nine) we started our all day trip around the island. This was our first time to up north (if you can say it like that) and we all were excited about it. Sonja came as well, even though she still felt a bit ill.

First few stops were picture stops. I mean that Pete stoped the car and we were able to take pictures of the view. It is a quite a ride as you go up and down all the time. The road was pretty good, not too many bumps (and no accidents).

First longer stop was at a waterfall were we first took some pictures further away. Then we desided to pay the fee (5 EC) and go down to see what it looked like from there. As this place was quite close to the capital, and a potential place for the cruise tourists to come, there were quit lot of tourist stuff sellers (krääsän myyjiä).

Most of the items they sold were made in china or somewhere else. Few were done by the locals. Sonja and Jouni bought some bananas from there, but as it was so early on our trip we didn't buy any souveniers from there.

Then we stopped in Gouyave (city in Grenada) at a local nutmeg factory. There we saw the trip that the nutmeg made from the fields to the shelves. It was mostly drying the nutmegs... I understood what the guide said, well almost all, but he had an accent that made it difficult to the others who didn't understand english well, to understand him well.

Then back to the car and enjoying the views. We went by an area where most of the people had worked somewhere else and retaired back home. It is quite common to people to go work somewhere else and then come back to enjoy the life(style).

Final stop before lunch was at Leapers Hill. It was named after Caribs whom jumbed off the cliff after failing to run the french from the island around 1650. They rather jumped then were cought by french.