Granny Visits Octopus

Margaret, who is 87 years young this year, flew all the way out to Martinique to visit us. She spent a week in a nearby hotel where we visited her for days on the beach and a ferry trip to Fort-de-France. The children enjoyed using the swimming pool at her hotel. She then moved onto Octopus for a week with us. We spent a couple of days at Anse Mitan with a day sail around to Trois Islets, a very pretty little anchorage between three very tiny islands. We sailed to Fort-de-France, the capital of Martinique, for a change of scene and to do some shopping, and then on to St-Pierre for a few days. St-Pierre was destroyed by a volcanic explosion in 1902 with only one survivor out of its 28,000 inhabitants. We took the children on a tour to look at the remains of the old city and meet a man whose grandparents lived in St-Pierre at the time, but were out of the city on that dreadful day. Margaret flew home on the 17th of March and we then sailed onto Dominica.