Jan 20, 2012 - The French Way: Guadeloupe 1

‘Vous-êtes raciste, raciste!’, the words spat out of the mouth of the black woman. ‘Pourquoi vous me chassez, c’est parce que je suis nègre, vous êtes raciste!’. She is enraged and moves to re-enter the café terrace she was just been sent away from and physically attack the white waitress she is shouting at. Then the owner looms in the door opening, alerted by the fracas, and she walks away past the tables where I and others are following the spectacle and down the pedestrian street full of Saturday shoppers. I return to the ‘Canard...

Jan 20, 2012 - The French Way: Guadeloupe 2

Continued from the entry before. My first years in Paris I felt exhilarated, as if I was living on a cloud and floating along the streets, enjoying every minute of living in the fantastic city. It also curiously gave me a new and lofty perspective on who I was and where I came from. I now saw a straight line from my original ancestry in Sweden to my new French-European identity, with the Dutch period being more like a detour, a distraction. I was back on the main track again. That exhilaration has abated of course and my feet touch the...

Jul 10, 2011 - Bonjour & Bon apetit

Bonjour family & friends, Our 13 hr passage was made up of 5ft seas,and steady 20 knot winds from midnite to noon the following day. St.Kitts gives us a problem due to dog importation,so we just anchored at different beaches for 3 days.Actually St.Kitts is called St.Christopher formally and this name does appear on some postage stamps,charts,(as the chartplotter tells me) this island of St.Kitts dominates the northern part of the Leeward islands because of its dramatic size and its beauty. Perhaps the main reason so much blood was shed over...

Jan 1, 2007 - Guadeloupe

Salut les z'amis! Bonne année!!!!! Nous voila de retour après presque 3 semaines au soleil...enfin il a aussi plu tous les jours...mais la pluie tropicale, moi, j'en voudrais bien a Edmonton. Maman dit qu'il n'est pas utile de faire de grand baratin, il n y a que les photos qui vous interessent. Ca, c'est parce qu'elle ne veut pas que je vous dise tout ce qu'ils m'ont fait faire ces fous de parents. Shut... je vais vous raconter quand meme... J'ai tout fait comme eux. Ils m'ont trimballé comme si j'étais un sac a dos (mais de luxe !)....