Arnd
May 10, 2016
12:00 am
2016 Blog, Guadeloupe, Original SV-Zanshin Website

2016-05-10

Arnd

2016 Trip 2016-05-10

To make up for the lack pictures and general laziness in days past I’ll flood this day’s entry with photographs. I decided to walk up to the top of the highest point in the Îles des Saintes, an old watchtower called La tour modèle. Although it is paved road, the climb of just over 1000 feet felt like a much longer and steeper ascent because I, foolishly, did it in the heat of noon. I had secretly hoped that a tourist driving up the road would offer me a ride but it turns out that the road is now closed to all but foot traffic so I wasn’t offered any respite and only met 4 other people on the hike, two couples on their way down who gave me some encouragement when I asked if I was almost there…

I had a good walk and took lots of pictures, including the ones of the bright caterpillar which I secretly hoped was some unknown species but it turns out to be a very common one.

Original hosting provider breaks my old website

My old hosting company, who will remain unnamed although their name starts with “go” and the end rhymes with “baddy”, changed their software with little notice and the original SV-ZANSHIN.COM site stopped working overnight.

Every. Single. Page.

So I’ve transitioned to another provider. These original pages have been migrated, but all the formatting and other features are gone and the will still contain numerous display issues and formatting anomalies.

The manual effort of conversion is too much and not worth the effort involved. Over 1000 blog diary pages like this one are going to remain in this condition. The pictures are full-scale, but won’t expand when clicked. But you can can copy them to view them in their original splendour.