Monique arrived spot on and we all went out for dinner. She was glad to be back again and so were we :-) Next day we chilled on the beach, picked up the sails from the sailmaker and then we went over to the anchorage where we had a nice barbeque.
Heidi, the French girl joined us the day after and we had a great sail to Martinique. 
Martinique is different. It is a Caribbean Island but has nothing to do with the Caribbean so it seems. No Walters to help you with a mooring buoy, no ice man, no lobster man no nothing. Ashore no 'ya mann', but bonsoir monsieur.... no music except for the hotel trio... Checking in was on a computer at the marina. That sounds very sophisticated, however, the form I had to fill in was in French.... also the keyboard was French, not the normal qwerty keyboard.
It's so not welcoming for all the yachts that come in. It feels more that you're being allowed to anchor as long as you comply with all the French crap.
So, instead of staying another day, we left next morning after breakfast. Breakfast was the only good thing about Martinique. The fresh croissants that were indeed the best we had so far. Only Rutger and Heidi nearly got arrested for trespassing. It turned out that the dinghy dock was private and the had to climb the fence to get out. On their way back security at first had no clue on what a dinghy was :-o and then told them to walk all the way round the bay and over the beach. Which they didn't of course....After breakfast we sailed to Dominica. Another great day of sailing. Underway we explained a bit on celestial navigation to Monique and Heidi and took a sight. Ru tger almost caught a fish but when it saw Rutger's face, it took off again...
We made it just after sunset and found a mooring buoy at Roseau bay and I cooked my tuna pasta with no fresh tuna unfortunately... This morning after I checked in, we went to the market and bought some nice fruits and a big tuna steak to put on the barbeque tonight. After that we sailed to Rupert's bay where we were welcomed by Spaghetti and the fruit man that also did ice and bread since we got the fruit on the market....
The plan is to stay her for at least one other day to explore the Island a bit. There's a nice tour up the Indian river and Sunday there's a big beach barbeque we might wanna go to. Both we can do with Spaghetti :-) Also there's Big Pappa's... according to the cruising guide, they have loud music on Wednesdays and very loud music on Saturdays.... :-) a nice place to have a drink later...
