In under an hour we’ll be leaving Portsmouth and heading south to Roseau.\u00a0 We’ve been here for two and a half weeks.\u00a0 Every time we stay anywhere nice for a week or more we begin to feel settled and the prospect of moving on becomes more difficult.\u00a0 Yesterday we went ashore to do our final shopping and on the way said our goodbyes to some of the folks we have met and who are still here.\u00a0 In the evening we were invited over to Stevee Jean for a couple of beers with our Ozzie friends, Gill and John.\u00a0 Turned out to be a much longer stay involving quite a bit more than just two beers.<\/p>\n

But moving on also brings the excitement of new places.\u00a0 Martinique beckons.\u00a0 We should be in St Pierre tomorrow and we have heard that is nice.\u00a0 We need to keep our eye on the weather as the winds are moving to the north (which is rare) and the waves will follow.\u00a0 This will make the anchorages with no northerly protection very uncomfortable.\u00a0 That may in turn force us into Fort-a-France a day or two earlier than expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In under an hour we’ll be leaving Portsmouth and heading south to Roseau. We’ve been here for two and a half weeks. Every time we stay anywhere nice for a week or more we begin to feel settled and the prospect of moving on becomes more difficult. Yesterday we went ashore to do our final […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dominica","category-stevee-jean","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboarddignity.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}