We passed military sites – Saint Lucia changed hands 14 times between Britain and France in colonial times – banana plantations and a rum distillery as we headed to the Sulphur Springs volcano at Soufriere on the slow switchback roads of this hilly island.
My chiller-thriller was on the gorgeous Spice Island of Grenada, where my wife Debbie and I had joined the Chocolate and Waterfall tour from the cruise port at pretty island capital St George’s.
Apart from being perishing and poached, I was also able to relax in the more “normal” Caribbean waters when Voyager stopped at Scarborough, Tobago, and we took a bus to Pigeon Point, one of the best beaches on the island with those gorgeous azure seas.
'I relaxed in hot, bubbling mud at the world's only drive-in volcano' Chilling out in the Caribbean is hot, hot, hot holiday heaven – and yet there I was with my extremities feeling cryogenically frozen.
Two days later Voyager docked at Castries, Saint Lucia, and we joined another great tour with charismatic guide Cliff, a nonstop conveyor belt of jokes and facts.
