The next day I'm up for some action so we head off on an island tour.
As our minibus climbs steeply up into the rainforest, I'm glad our guide, Roger, is at the wheel, negotiating the hairpin bends and oncoming traffic.
We dodge the odd mongoose that runs across our path and wind our way up through the Grand Etang National Park, along roads bordered by 60ft-high thickets Louis Vuitton Monogram Vernis bamboo and huge, overhanging ferns.
We had planned to visit the Dougladston Spice Estate, but heavy rains have blocked the road, so instead we get our spice induction in the front garden of a roadside shop.
We learn about the medicinal properties of nut-meg (good for strokes and arthritis), cloves (toothache), soursop (puts kids to sleep), aloe (soothes sunburn), and-something that grabs Andy's attention-bois bande, otherwise louis vuitton replica as the local Viagra.
I stock up in the store on nutmeg and vanilla.
Andy opts for homemade banana ketchup and chilli sauces, then we pile back in the van to drive to our lunch stop-Belmont Estate, home to the Grenada Chocolate Company.
The overpowering stench of cocoa beans in the fermenting sheds makes it hard to believe something so heavenly will result, but the chocolate on louis vuitton damier azur speedy 30 in the shop is some of the best I've ever tasted.
Numerous bars make their way into my bag, to be joined later bya bottle of rum from the River Antoine distillery, the final stop of our tour.
Dating back to the 1750s.
it's well worth a visit to see rum being made much as it was back in the darkest days of the slave trade.
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