We are on our way back from 3¬+ wks in the mostly the Pyrenees and Basque regions of both France and Spain, with a short trip thru SE England on the way back. The latter was added when the airline prices for the planned Barcelona to Bilbao portion kept escalating, and I came up with the idea of using relatively cheap Air Transat into London (Gatwick) and then super-cheap intra Europe flights

Barbados, Dominica and Martinique We are heading home after 19 very enjoyable days in the Lesser Antilles, our first times in that part of the Caribbean. Most of the Lesser Antilles, including the very mountainous (no possible runway for jumbo jets) “nature island” of Dominica, and the French Overseas Department of Martinique, consist of an arc of volcanic islands (Montserrat in 1995 being the most recent eruption). Limestone Barbados, with its rolling hills, is among the exc