Canada humiliated by tiny Martinique – CBC Headline Psh, mean! I was clearly highly entertained – and feeling a little smug – in light of this Twittering. When I first saw Martinique was trending, I seriously thought Mont Pelée had just erupted or something. Turns out Martinique, in the last ten seconds of a football…
I don’t like the beach. I know. I lived on a Caribbean island for 15 months over three calendar years—how is that even possible? Well, I find lying on the beach boring and it makes me really hot, to which the normal response is to go for a swim, but swimming in saltwater makes me…
Disponible en Francais: Cliquez Ici Just as you’re never more than 12 kilometres from the sea on this island, you’re also never far very away from a distillery. It’s not often that the landscape, people, culture and tradition of a country are in such harmony with a product, but rum in Martinique is more than…
It was one of those events we were told is the best of the year, “A ne pas rater!” We checked the list of bands and considered going, but decided against it on account of the hour and a half drive across the island from Sainte-Anne we would have to do at midnight after spending…
Céline, a charismatic French woman with exceptionally long hair covered by a cabby hat, greeted us warmly. Her positive energy was infectious and her openness made her easy to talk to. It was no surprise that she knew a lot of interesting people and discovered many new things. A friend of my partner’s co-worker, we…
We had originally planned to celebrate Passover/Easter by combining a little bit of what I remember from Catholic school and mixing it with a little bit of Martinican tradition: watching The Prince of Egypt while earnestly singing along and eating frozen stuffed crab from Leader Price… It became clear Easter was around the corner when…
After consulting a road map of Martinique and working through the directions visually, we got in the car hoping for the best. In spite of our best efforts, we overshot and ended up driving up and down some of the steepest hills I’ve encountered on this island. Ten minutes later and the car smelling strongly…
In the commune of Sainte-Marie, there is a natural wonder unique to Martinique and a global geological rarity. Here, you can only visit the two hillocks of Ilet Sainte-Marie during Carême—the dry season between January and April—when the tide goes out and the seas part to reveal the tombolo, a sandbar connecting the mainland to…
Carnival is an outlet where everything is permitted—inversion, derision, inhibition, questioning the rules—cutting into the monotony of daily life. Carnival in Martinique is special—it’s not a spectacle with bleachers, stages, and famous artists flown in to perform. Here, everyone is together and in movement: you can be as much a part of the parade as…
With another dark drive to areas in Martinique unknown – this time to Habitation Beaufond in Trois-Ilets – we made our way to the 16th annual Marley’s Marathon, the number one reggae event in Martinique according to the France-Antilles Magazine. Bob Marley was born on February 6th, 1945, and since 1998 Ras Daniel and le…
