Basseterre

Today we spent the day walking around town and doing a bit of shopping, Basseterre is a quaint Caribbean town with lots of old world charm, we did not take any pictures or videos yet but we still have six days so we will defiantly post something to share with you so you know what we are talking about. Posting is a bit trickier with having to walk over the road to beg the Deli for airtime and also having a cricket game every second day.

We caught a taxi into town to The Circus, built and designed to be something similar to the London Piccadilly Circus, but obviously this one is much smaller! Surrounded by small hotels, shops and restaurants we exchanged money and spent some time browsing various touristy shops. We popped into Holland House, the Dutch pub that we have made our favourite watering hole, and bought some orange tee shirts for the Holland Vs Scotland game tomorrow. We have made friends with some of the local Dutch folk and we promised that we would lend our support on Thursday!
After the Dutch pub we took a walk to the Pelican Mall too have a look for some curios and Pirate goodies, not much going on there or at the market, which is kind of like Greenmarket square with stall after stall of the same crap, just replace the carved giraffes and soapstone with Rasta colours and anything with Bob Marleys face on it, yes the Rasta man is big here as well!

Port Zante mall was much better and had more variety, we bought various things from mugs to shot glasses to tee shirts and I even found a big Pirate flag for the pole at Clanwilliam! Nice!
After the Port Mall we took a walk down the breakwater and found the ferry terminal to Nevis, we were planning on going to Nevis today but we changed our plans last night because we are going there when we are on board the Cruise Ship. We have also booked ourselves onto a day sailing trip with a 70ft cat on Friday and that also visits Nevis when we stop at a deserted beach for snorkelling and a beach braai! I hope you are all enjoying life at the grindstone? ha ha! ;)

There was nothing of interest at the ferry terminal so we started looking for a place to eat and eventually settled at the Circus Grill. I enquired about the line fish and was given the choice of Snapper or Mhai Mhai, it was at this time our waitress informed us that Mhai Mhai is another local name for Dolphin. I also realised that I had the Mhai Mhai in Jamaica. Oh dear.
I hope she was confused and is not sure what a dolphin is, Richard (of course) dissolved into fits of silent laughter while it slowly sank into my brain that I may have eaten dolphin. I ordered the Lamb.

After a late lunch we caught a taxi back to our Inn and have been here since making phone calls and organising the rest of our tourist time here in St Kitts.

Tomorrow we are at the cricket in our newly acquired orange tees so if you are watching we will be at our normal possie on the grass next to the big TV.
Cheers!