Port Louis Marina, St Georges, Grenada
No sooner are we returned from the UK and we are plunged into Grenada Carnival. The marina is basically on the route so you can either sit on board listening to incredibly loud Soca at 3am or go out and join in!
Carnival starts on Monday morning with J’Ouvert, a 5am start to find the streets filled with people.
The history is that the Jab Jab demons that own the night are gradually pushed back to where they belong by the sunlight and the people.
The reality is a 50:50 split between people covered in old motor oil and people covered in brightly coloured paint.
Sadly like everywhere else in the world corporate marketing types have got involved so yellow paint for the Carib Beer float, red for Digicel etc. That said it’s lots of fun.
After a well earned rest we are back on the streets for the Pretty Mas, the traditional carnival parade all colours, feathers, sequins and dancing – a spectacular sight and best summed up in photos.
The best thing being the complete lack of body image issues, no matter your age, colour, BMI get out there whack on an outrageous costume and shake what you’ve got.
Another rest before the final leg of a long day, Night Mas. We had joined up with the Carib Beer float. So we walked the 3 miles into town behind a booming sound truck, chipping and whining, waving our light sabres and drinking free beer.
The trips to the beer truck to get refills were either painless (no queue) or like a scene from a famine in Africa as 100 people hang off a slowly moving truck banging cups on the sides and begging for beer from the overworked and stressed “relief” workers.
At 2am we called it a day missing the final 2 miles into the national stadium and generally being useless cruiser woosies rather than hardened Carnival party goers!
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