Armed with my shopping list I headed ashore just in time to get into the car before the rains hit. Unlike the usual short but intense showers, this rain lasted quite a while and didn’t really let up until after lunchtime. My spending frenzy knew some bounds, as my credit card company hadn’t responded yet and I didn’t know if the card was blocked or not. Thus I was back to using old-fashioned cash but fortunately my list wasn’t too extensive. Much of what I still needed to purchase was to come from the French hardware store in Marigot (220V stuff which isn’t sold on the 110V Dutch side), and of course by the time I drove by there they were closed for lunch but I took the time to have a croissant and coffee at La Sucrière.
By the time I’d gotten my purchases together and unloaded them on the boat it was 16:30 and I decided to head out to Barnacles via the coastal French road and perhaps I could catch Air France taking off at the airport if they were, as is often the case, delayed. I stopped off at the Driftwood Bar at the end of the runway on Sunset Beach but they told me that the Airbus had already left for the day, but I remained to watch a couple of landings and see the eponymous sunset there.
Afterwards I dropped by at Barnacles and was very happy to meet up with the crew there and to find out that they did indeed have their famous ribs available that night. The meals was excellent and I met up with some Germans who I’d met two years earlier and we talked for a while until I felt ready for the long drive back to Grand Case on the French side.
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