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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