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Jambe De Bois
May 23, 2007

We walk to the marina this morning to get cash for the next few days and have an early lunch at Cafe Ole. Also book ourselves onto the Glass bottom boat tour for the Saturday - Well it's billed as a semi-submarine but basically you sit down in the glass hull and look out of the side... But more of that later.

Local artist Llewellyn Xavier has a gallery in the marina which I have to make do with visiting rather than trying to arrange a visit to his studio at the very north of the island. We pick up a nice little print [unfortunately not the one pictured, that's one of the paintings at Jambe De Bois and far too big to take home] and get the bus back. As we have three touristy type days coming up we take advantage of this quiet day and head back to Pigeon Island and Jambe De Bois restaurant. Apart from a limited but excellent menu, Jambe De Bois also have a 2 for 1 deal on selected cocktails... Which work out at £1 a glass, so we work through the list! Our favourite is called "A Day At Jambe De Bois" and is Rum, Amaretto, Grenadine and Orange Juice, which looks pretty much like a Tequila Sunrise but is faaaar nicer.

I attempt a few more fruitless attempts at taking a picture of a hummingbird before we head back to the hammocks and I finish the Will Self book at last. I realise that I am going to have to ditch three of the books I've bought with me to fit the souvenirs in the rucksack for the journey home so I opt to read David Toop's brilliant Haunted Weather next.

Duncan arrives back from another trip and joins us in the hammocks, telling us about some amusing sunstrips he has spotted in bus windows. "Chocolate Adonis" and "Ambiguous" being the best. We get distracted by a stray Cicada flapping around under the veranda roof, which finally settles down only to be surrounded by a small gang of geckoes that sit there for a while weighing up the odds of actually being able to eat it... They all finally give it a wide berth and start arching their backs and swishing their tails like cornered cats do! We notice after a bit though that they all start hanging around the lights preying on the gormless moths drawn towards them... we start to lay odds on which one is likely to eat first and cheer when a hapless moth gets scoffed. Who needs TV?

Categories: Food & Drink, Travel, Art

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