Author: Wining with Mel

Translator by day, avid wine drinker by night! Mel is a certified sommelier and translator with a chronic case of the travel bug. She is about to set off on a one-year adventure, starting with two months in Europe and nine months sailing in the Caribbean. Be sure to subscribe to Wining with Mel to follow along and learn more about all the fun wines available out there!

Visiting the Saintes and Dominica

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Wherein we fall in love with Dominica

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Gorgeous Guadeloupe

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To get February off to a fresh start, we decided to leave Antigua and begin making our way down to Guadeloupe. We were on somewhat of a strict schedule, as Mel's mom was arriving in Point-à-Pitre on the 7th, and we wanted to get there in good time to scope things out. We left Jolly [...]

There’s something about Antigua…

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We arrived in Antigua at 7:30 p.m. on January 8, exhausted and wind burnt after a grueling 13-hour passage from Nevis. We had been warned that this passage was less than ideal, with tradewinds right on the nose for the 50 miles between the two islands. But we did it anyway. We were out of [...]