As planned, the next morning we started our sail to Le Marin. Approximately 5 hours was planned for the sailing, what was not really matching to my plans, as I had to work this day. Like ordered in the universe the bottom rope from our Mainsail crushed, so we had to switch to the motor. The bay of Le Marin is the main meeting point for sailors in the Carribean. Its hard to guess but approximately 1500 – 2000 boats are on anchorage in the bay. As we entered the bay we had to pass a transport ship for motor yachts and sail yachts. I never have seen something like this before. A huge vessel where you drove your ship into. Crazy!
The plenty of boats around left their traces. The water around us was blurry and greenish. Not to compare with Trinidad but definitely not the water where you are lucky to jump into every day.
As Martinique belongs to EU, my regular phone contract with data should work here, but the coverage at our anchorage was pretty bad. By Dhingy you easily can drove over to the Marina nearby. Prices in the Marina Bars was high as expected, but WIFI was good. I spent the first day with working full time, and then in the afternoon, I tried to figure out what SIM card options are available. Here I have to say – fail Martinique – all available Data plans was something around 2GB/40€ which was unacceptable for me. So I spent the rest of the afternoon sitting in Mc Donalds as they offered free WIFI too. So my options were to sit on land, day by day and use the WIFI from the Bar at the Marina, or a similar place or to pay 40€ on average for 2 days mobile WIFI. All in all, it was clear that I could not stay here until the middle of February.
Le Marin architecture 
Rum in masses 
Til gaul? – horse? 
sweet bar at Le Marin 
Le Marin around the marina 
Le Marin around the marina 
Cemetary at Le Marinn 
Nice House 
Bus station Le Marin 
Art in a bar 
What a nice decor – Le Marin 
What a nice decor – Le Marin 
What a nice decor – Le Marin 
What a nice decor – Le Marin 
What a nice decor – Le Marin 
Art in Le Marin 
Art in Le Marin 
Art in Le Marin
So, I decided to look for flights and I already had figured out that the cheepest way to get away from Martinique is to fly through the US (Miami or Fort Lauderdale). Flights on my earlier research was around 300€ and I was happy in the end to find a flight for 200€ through Miami to Panama. Sadly the flight was on the 1tst of December which shorten my stay on Jabulo one week down. But on the other hand I looked forward to be back on my own. I figured out that the flight from Miami to Panama is a regular flight on every day and so I thought by myself – why not stay one night longer in Miami and visit the famous Miami Beach?! Accomodation was a bit pricy but in the end I found a Hostal near the Airport for 80€ / 2 Nights. After all my worries and a bit of sorrow, I thought that this would be a perfect adventure to move my mind to other thoughts and booked it.
Later, when I was back in the Marina, I started a conversation with a guy I met there. His name was „Nacho“, coming from Spain and an engineer in renewable Energies. He told me that his boat is on sale and so I asked him if Martha and I can come around for a visit later on. He agreed and after we cooked something we took the Dhingy and headed over to his boat. The boat was an old Endevour. He explained to us, that this boat model was used in the series Miami Vice. Sonny Crocket was living on a boat model like this in the series, what make this model kind of famous. He also explained, that only 80 pieces of this model was build and aproximatly 20 of them was used in the series. Anyway for me this was not a boat what I would love to own, as it was very heavy and the interior was made from dark wood. This take so much light in the inside that I imagine to get depressions if I had to life there.
Then Nacho told us about some live music later on, and some friends with a brand new Catamaran who do a party on the boat. He wanted to ask if we can join and we arranged to meet up ashore around 7. It turned out that the live music was a karaoke event in the bar of the marina. We stayed for some drinks and as the music becomes louder which each song, we decided to leave around 10. The situation was perfect, as was able Nacho took us directly to the party boat. On the boat was a young crew from mainly polish people, loud music, and enough drinks. The boat was impressive. Brand new, and with a lot of luxury details. The people of the crew was amazingly friendly and it was a lot of fun, to mingle around, talking and enjoying the night. With a good portion of rum, Uwe and I decided to leave around 3 in the night and we both was astonished that we was able to stay that long.
Next morning I woke up with a strong hangover, but still happy about the funny night before. It was planned to go out for dinner in the evening, but as Martha had stayed overnight with one of the guys from the party boat, it happens that she wanted to head over to his boat over the weekend. That made our dinner a bit uncomfortable and not like a goodbye dinner as it should ment to be. Anyway this only confirm my decision to leave the boat.
It was not possible to figure out a clear plan of how to get to the airport, but Uwe has promised me to help with my luggage. As this luggage was intended to be for 6
The drive with the bus was nice. Soon as we had left the area of Le Marin, the landscape looked very beautiful and like it wants to be explored. Also the switch to the shared taxi was not a problem and overall I did the way to the airport for 4€ in total. The shared taxi drop me off at the exit of the motorway and just from looking it was clear that I had to walk about 2km from here. The bag was horrible to carry, as it always crushed into my legs. Only the anger inside of me makes it happend that I made the way.
The airport was still asleep when I arrived at 10 a.m. I got a coffee, and some food and then I felt the release in my mind. From that moment I was sure that I did the right thing. So it is – goodbye Jabulo – hello Miami
