The view from where we are anchored.
The weather has been very hazy (and windy being in an acceleration zone) so pictures of the neighbouring island and generally in town have been a bit sketchy. However, this is one I am quite proud of showing one of the derelicts moored in the bay.
More Christmas stuff first though.
Audrey's knitted Christmas tree.
The island we are on is called Sao Vincente and is one of the smaller. Also, because it is not very high, it is very dry. It is very nice though and the taxi ride around it was a lot of fun.
There is a village on the east end of the island called Calhau. It has some seriously upmarket holiday homes but also a small set of fishing boats. There is also a very closed looking holiday development. We are not sure if it is just the close season or whether the developer ran out of money/tourists. It is quite picturesque though.
On the north side of the island is a huge beach and a nice village at the western end of it where we had a huge lunch.
Mindelo itself is a great town. It is the second city of the Cabo Verde but as the entire population of the country is only around 500000 it is not really more than a medium sized town. It had a heyday as a coal bunkering port in the days of steam ships and so has lots of distinctive architecture from that era along with a fantastic produce market. The fish market is also fascinating and it provided us with some delicious fish of some type for Christmas dinner. They looked like small tuna.
This lady sold us our fish!
Typical Mindelo architecture
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