On The Road Again

After our stay at the beautiful Hotel Oloffson we ventured to our new destination St. Josephs guest house. On our very rocky route I took the time to take in the surrounding scenery with a mixture of debris from the fallen buildings, to the incredible landscape behind which consisted of tall empowering mountings piercing the clouds. Then was brought back to reality to see the children of this city begging at our vehicle door. When we arrived at our new place of stay we were greeted by Michael and was toured round the house. We met a couple of the guys on the top floor who was in the middle of making some jewelry, necklaces and bracelets amazingly hand crafted from the shell of a coconut. We were then shown the foundations of the new house, where the old one that was destroyed used to be, and was told an incredible story of when it collapsed it fell against a tree which supported it and saved lives. After the tour we decided to take a trip through the streets and down to the grocery store as we were told it was. This became a great opportunity to get in amongst the people and say hello. We arrived at what we thought would be a little corner grocery, instead a massive supermarket guarded by military and rifles stood in front of us. We managed to find what we were looking for and started making our way back. We were going to take this chance to get on a tap tap, which is quite like a taxi, only you can fit on however many people you can squeeze into it which looks quite amuzing. but traffic was bad so we carried on the walk back to the guest house. To finally have some amazing home cooked Haitian soup, and to jump into the shower that consisted of a barrel of water, a cup and a bucket.

Nathan French