We were on pinel yesterday too. Yellow beach side. Took the last boat off pinell and had to wait for an obnoxious drunk party of women that took forever to pack up and get to the boat. Held up the boat and didn't care. Going back Tuesday again.

Zee Best in Simpson Bay Yacht Club area has crepes.

Nutella, cinnamon, sugar, or savories.

Edit: oops, sorry...you just said "at night". Zee Best closes after lunch.

That is great news.

Hope the friends are ok.

I agree Leverick, but another option is JVD great harbor and enjoy white bay and little jost on 2 different days.

Cost U Less is a shell of it's former self. May not have any as they don't have much.

Will let know about the office. We still haven’t been there. I think we were a little misdirected. They are now closed until Tuesday. We met some great people on the beach. Beach balls from Maine to California challenged the windy conditions today. It was a wet track with Snowballs winning the inaugural. A sixtieth celebration for the mare Cappy yielded rum shots for the entire field. Another fabulous day in St. Martin.
The odds are it will be a repeat tomorrow.
carib cheers,
doctorj

We recently sailed from St. Lucia to Grenada. Fun trip, but logistics were a bit more involved than our past charters in the Leewards. We stayed the night before in St. Lucia, but were not near a grocery store, so we decided we would just do a very light provision at the marina store and then stock up as we go. We also tend to eat out quite a bit so we mainly just needed breakfast, snacks, and drinks. We heard there was decent shopping in Bequia, as well as other options as we continue down the islands, so we figured we should be able to pick up what we need as we go.

Long story short, we should have taken the time to provision in St. Lucia - or taken advantage of the pre-provisioning option. We found that there just weren't very many options once we got into SVG and the selection at stores was often pretty limited. We actually ended up eating out even more than we had planned out of necessity as we couldn't find the food to put together a decent meal. I should disclose that we were with our three somewhat picky kids which didn't make it any easier. Still, I would encourage you to stock up in Grenada, pre-provision with the charter company, or have the ladies make a run to a store in St. Vincent - if you are comfortable with that. We personally found St. Vincent to be a kind of funky place (at least where we stopped for the night) and I'm not sure what selection they have anyway so maybe ask the charter company about that.

There are others on this board that have more experience than us sailing the Grenadines, but feel free to reach out if you have any questions for me.

Matt

that's great news. this time we came on the island just the two of us. no kids. but now we miss them so much that we want to return home yesterday.

alecu

I second George's comment on Charlie's. We ate there last month and our crew loved it!

Stockholm is a beautiful city and has much to offer the tourist and business traveller. I visited there last month and feel myself like in fairy tale. City Hall,Skansen, Icebar are very beautiful places to visit in Stockholm. There are fascinating streets and buildings everywhere. I think you need to go there at least once.

The Hunt for the Ultimate Cocktail: Category 5 Plus: Hundreds of smashed bottles of the finest liquors and only a few intact ones left... our resident mixologists had to be truly creative during the first days after Hurricane Irma hit the island this past September. They had to come up with some new cocktails with very limited resources. Who could blame the bartenders for naming their concoctions 'Category Five Plus' or 'Irma Special'? Suddenly we have a few Cat 5s too many around and need to find out which one deserves the name. Category 5+ Hurricane Irma is part of our history, we made it through and we don't mind vicious Irma to be remembered as a drink causing a serious hang-over.
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We had another great visit to DSR, I'm sure hopeful they can find a buyer to continue the trajectory that the Youngs have started. The steady hand of the Youngs after a tumultuous period in the resort's history seems to have paid off. The resort looks better than ever, there are more people visiting during the week when we like to go, the restaurant is busy nearly every day and the physical condition has never been better. Seems that the marketing has been aimed at the younger generation, and during our short stay we noticed more younger couples than in the past.

Here's to a fantastic resort, and a nod to the hard work of the Youngs leaving it much better than they found it.