Jaana Time

Today's blogger: Jaana

So we woke up today to the sound of pouring rain, which lasted for about an hour, and which made Henrik think of catching a plane back to London, since we are obviously cursed getting snow in the Death Valley and nothing but grey skies and rain in the Caribbean. A bit later it stopped though, and we sat outside experiencing the weird fact of seeing shadows on the ground and getting tanned with the sun still being behind the clouds.



After lunch we joined the girls we met here in their rental jeep for a trip to Grenada Chocolate Company. We stopped on the way in Grenville, which is the largest "town" on the east coast, to exchange some money and to have something to eat.



Then we headed for the chocolate company, but asking for directions, it all got mixed up with the cocoa station, which is something completely different. Fortunately we had a good map, since there are almost no road signs and the road can suddenly look really confusing so you don't know where to go. All the locals however are extremely friendly and helpful, and if you look lost they just do their best to try and help you. Driving in Grenada would actually require a whole chapter of its own, with different types of hand signs and beeping when you overtake, getting a beep in return from the car you overtake etc. The busses (which are minibusses in any colour) all have extremely funny names, such as: "Humble", "Full participation", "Rolling 2 a higher level" and so on.

When we finally reached our destination, the chocolate company was closed for construction work, but instead we took a tour of nearby Belmont estate, which is where the chocolate company get their cocoa beans from. The estate buys cocoa beans from the farmers, and then ferment them, dry them, separate the bean from the shell, and sell them on.



Tonight we are going to have a spice bath under the stars (or probably the cloudy skies) with a rumpunch and some music.