S/Y Babette Sails to the Caribbean

S/Y Babette sails to the Caribbean, carefully avoiding the Pirates, and then sails back again to Norway.

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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Six tickets for Gooey fun!

For TT$360 Abdul will scrape off all the old varnish on the cockpit rail and sand it clean. It's a deal!
With the extra time we dinghy over to "Member's Only" where Jessie James and co. sell us six tickets to "J'ouvert". We order six white t-shirts and shorts with "What de Sailors Like" printed on it. And blue sailor caps and scarves (think Pop-Eye!) The white won't stay white for long...

"J'ouvert, the opening parade, starts at 4am in Port-of-Spain. And at 2am from here, in Chaguaramas. That's about one hour after we've returned from the "Kings and Queens Finals, "Dimanche Gras"!
"J'ouvert" is an all-night dance in the streets with huge "bands" (groups). They follow each their steel-band drumming out calypso rythmns. Bring ear plugs! And "throw-away" cameras.
Then there's the mud. And paint, and other stuff you can get smeared with. Gooey! Oh, make those cameras the under-water type.

Now,what have we got our (used to be?) friends into!?

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