Grenada ,

Monday 1st February 

We shall be stopping off  at four of the 32 islands and cays that form a necklace in the southern Caribbean called the  Grenadines which are technically part of the Windward Islands.
We arrived at around 08:00, at St Georges the capital of Grenada after passing earlier this morning, between Trinidad and Tobago and into the Caribbean for our first port of call .
The population is in the region of 25000 of the 106500 on the island
We had to hang about until 13:15 for our excursion, which was good because after an early walk around the town I was feeling a bit rough. 
My tickly cough is back, but worse, and I kept feeling a bit churny in the stomach. 
An Alka Selzer seemed to have calmed both maladies.

So we were off for a four and half hour bus tour of the island.
Fortunately the bus was modern, and air conditioned with plenty of legroom.
This was good, as I had envisaged a rather uncomfortable few hours.
As it turned out all of our following tours around the Caribbean islands were in ever improving transport.
Grenada is known as "the spice of the Caribbean" due to it's prolific production of nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger.
First of all we climbed to 800 feet up a narrow road to Fort Frederick with panoramic views of the city and harbour
This fort by the way, is the same place that the Regan’s boys bombed back in the Thatcher’s time, from around 1984 from memory, and killed 37 occupants of part of the fort which at that time was a mental hospital. 
Nowadays called collateral damage, but what both Pauline’s and my Dad experienced during their wartime service, as gungho cowboy Yanks.
This was followed by a mainly driving trip through the centre of the very beautiful island , stopping off at the now derlict Dougaldston Spice Estate where we were introduced to all the spices and fruits of the area and on to the fishing village of Goyave and then into the National Park for a visit to Grand Etang lake set in the very centre of the island but at 1900 feet above sea level.Where we finished up in a local bar for rum punch or in our case a local beer (l***r).