And we're back on the road! this time just for a week in Dominica. The trip came together rather quickly compared to most of our other trips -- we first discussed the trip back in January after returning from Seoul.
I'm not really sure how we picked Dominica. It's more known for its waterfalls and trekking and snorkeling, and less so its beaches. It's part of the Lesser Antilles (that doesn't mean anything to me, my geographical knowledge of the Caribbean is poor). The airport is small so you need to fly in from other nearby islands, and so it's fairly under-touristed -- they only get about 60,000 overnight visitors per year. It is part of the cruise ship circuit so there's lots of day trippers near the port in Roseau, but it's easy enough to get away from that if you're staying overnight. We have a layover in Antigua on the way in, and Trinidad on the way out.
I've always pronounced the country incorrectly, thinking it sounded like the Dominican Republic. It's more of a French pronounciation, similar to Dominique, with an 'a' at the end.
We're renting a car to get around, and of course as with any country where we rent a car, they drive on the left side. We've rented cars in 10 countries over our travels, of which 8 of them were left-hand drive. I was able to book a standard (yay!), so it will be fun to drive around the curves and hills. We had a standard in South Africa and I really enjoyed driving in and around the Drakensberg. The offline Google map for the whole of Dominica takes up 65 MB (by comparison, my default Home offline map of the GTA takes up 128 MB).
Packing for this trip was pretty easy, as we're only dealing with one climate. Mostly it's what we packed to get around Fiji, including all our snorkeling gear. The temperature for the week is highs of 28C and lows of 24C which sounds good to me :)
Hopefully the next time I update we'll be in Antigua!
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