First Post

I'm starting this blog with the same good intentions and aspirations of wit as hundreds of other amateur bloggers. Hopefully, I'll manage to post on a semi-regular basis and continue to do so for the duration of my stay in Guadeloupe. With a bit of luck, I might even manage to be entertaining. But I'm not going to get ahead of myself here. Let's just manage to write a first post, with maximum coherency and minimum blather, without abandoning the whole thing to read superior writing in The New York Times online instead.