This was intended as the first part of a trip to French Guayana for a Suyuz launch, but was truncated due to COVID-19.
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Fort Frederick
Amidst a clutter of poles and pylons
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| St George, from Fort Frederick
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| Grenada Parliament, from Fort Frederick
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| Fort St George, from Fort Frederick
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| Fort St George
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| Fort St George
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| Ruined interior
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| Maurice Bishop Memorial Marker
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| View from Fort St George
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| St George Parish church
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| St George waterfront
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| Gratuitous lizard
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| Independence Arch
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Independence Square: Errol Walton Barrow
First Prime Minister of Barbados
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| National Heroes Gallery
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| Parliament
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| Nelson
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Nidhe Israel Synagogue (1834)
On site of older 1654 synagogue.
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| Supreme court
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| Sir Garfield Sobers statue
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| "The Main Guard"
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| "The Main Guard"
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| Elderly Cannon
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| Elderly Cannon
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| Soldiers' Brick Barracks (1808)
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| Barbados Museum
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| Sir Grantley Adams + Guide
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| First Landing (1605) Monument
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| First Landing (1605) Monument
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| St James Anglican Church (much rebuilt)
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| St James Anglican Church
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| North Point, Caribbean view
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| North Point, Atlantic view
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| Sugar Wind Mill
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A restored sugar plantation, including a grand Jacobean Manor House and a rum distillery.
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| St Nicholas Abbey
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| St Nicholas Abbey: Designed to Impress
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| St Nicholas Abbey
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| Abraham Cumberbatch 1728-1785
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| Elaborate gentleman's reading chair
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| An authentic Thomas Crapper toilet
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| Distillery
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| St Nicholas Abbey guide
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| Fermenters + Kettle + Distillation column
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| Distillation Column
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| Distillation details
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| Steam cane crushing mill
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| Steam cane crushing mill
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| View to Fort St Louis
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| View to Fort St Louis
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| Fort St Louis
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| Fort St Louis
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| Préfecture de la Martinique
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| Bibliotheque Schoelcher
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| Bibliotheque Schoelcher
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| Bibliotheque Schoelcher
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| St Louis Cathedral (1890)
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St Louis Cathedral (1890)
Steel framed, to resist fires, earthquakes and hurricanes.
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| St Louis Cathedral
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| La Savane Park
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Belain d'Esnambuc
Founder of French settlement of Martinique
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On 8th May 1902, the thriving town of St Pierre was abrutly destroyed by a pyroclastic surge from the Mount Pelée volcano.
Around 25,000 people died within minutes.
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| Ruined Theater
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| The ruined prison
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| A surviving stone prison cell
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| Scotsman in prison cell
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| One of the few survivors, who had been in a stone prison cell.
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| Memorial Museum of 1902 Catastrophe
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| Damaged bronze church bell
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Earth Sciences Research Center Museum
In an earthquake-proof building
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| Cloudy Mount Pelée, slumbering peacefully
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While I was in Martinique, the French authorities closed all public access to the Cayenne Space Center. So I decided to truncate my trip and return home.
But since St Lucia was on my easiest route back, I stopped off there for two days.
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| View of Castries
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| Castries: Derek Walcott Square
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| Nobelist Sir William Arthur Lewis
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| Nobelist Derek Alton Walcott
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| Castries: Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
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| Castries: Apostles battery
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| Castries: Apostles battery
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| Castries: Apostles battery
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| Castries: Apostles battery
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Castries: Apostles battery
Rotating mount and mismatched cannon
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| Banana farm
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| Very fresh, very tasty, bananas
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| Cassava root
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| Cassava ginger bread
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| View to the two Pitons
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| Petite Piton
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| Gros Piton
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| Inland view
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| Morne Coubaril estate
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| Cocoa beans in pod
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| "Dancing" on dried cocoa beans, to polish them
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| How cocoa beans are processed
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| Sugar crusher: Powered by a tourist-savvy donkey
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| Ripe green breadfruit
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| Qualibou volcano sulfur pools
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| Qualibou volcano sulfur pools
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| Pineapple plant!
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| View to Soufriere
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| Soufriere
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Soufriere Freedom Monument
Commemorating slaves who defeated the British in 1796
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| Soufriere: Church of the Assumption
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| Soufriere: Church of the Assumption
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Pigeon Island was once an island, but is now merely a peninsula.
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| Fort Rodney (1778)
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| Fort Rodney cannon
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| Fort Rodney cannon
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| A"Musket Redoubt"
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| British Barracks (1824)
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Winter
