On a yacht to Martinique
Today I am on a yacht to St Anne, Martinique, in the Global Corporate Challenge. It looks like a nice place to be headed, if one has to go somewhere on a yacht! So far I have trekked up through Chile, Venezuala, Honduras, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and St Lucia. It's fun. At each destination we get a little blurb about the locale, written by someone with a fine sense of humour and a love for the curious, a few facts about the country plus some stunning photos. Josephine, the wife of Napoleon, was born on Martinique. Venezuela has the world's highest waterfall (it's 16 times bigger than Niagara) and, despite the country's smallish size, has produced the third most Miss Universe winners of any country. Vieux Fort, St Lucia, apparently, looks like it got dressed in London and styled in France because the British and the French actually went to war 14 times over this little island. All the world's mini-mokes have ended up in Barbados (if you were wondering where they went), where the city of Bridgetown in the only city outside Continental US that George Washington ever visited. In Honduras you should look for a cinder block hotel as opposed to a wooden one as rats find it harder to access the non-wooden buildings ... and so on I go.
My "personal best" at the moment is 17,835 steps in one day. On a normal weekday I can easily do 16,000 steps. It's on the weekends, especially rainy weekends, that it's harder to make the 10,000. But I give myself a little slack, because what you miss out on the razzle dazzle you pick up on the hurdy gurdy, and I figure that I have a reasonable "exercise habit" already, and that's really all we're aiming for.
