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Lagoonies was always great value for money and a popular stop-off where cruisers
could take a break from their long passages: to provision up, work on their
yachts, find the right people or parts or just relax for a few days before heading out
to sea again.
On a quiet day in 2004, Lagoonies closed its doors and many of the regulars were
left wondering what would replace it. Over the next several years, the property was
re-developed and what is now the new Lagoon Marina is in full swing again — with
Lagoonies Bar and Café in front and center.
It has a fresh new look with a traditional feel of a boatshed (big new roof!) and
includes a lovely outdoor terrace for waterfront dining and cocktails. Live music
again fills the air on Friday nights and 5:00 to 6:00PM is Very Happy Hour every night.
Lagoonies is still the place to meet, eat and drink with the best Lagoon sunsets to
enjoy Happy Hour, beautiful waterside dining and dancing or just checking your
mail with a real coffee, lunch specials every day, fresh fruit and vegetable juices...
besides the cold beers. Ask about our weekly specials!
For more information see ad on page 25.
Art Fabrik is Recycling, Upcycling and Downcycling
Chris and Lilo report: When we first heard about “upcycling” we thought people
were talking about biking up a hill! Recycling has nothing to do with bikes… well, not
exactly true: bikes can be recycled too.
The interior décor in our Art Fabrik boutique on Young Street in St. George’s,
Grenada, is built with recycled materials that we collected long before Hurricane
Ivan. In those times “treasures” were everywhere: behind the bushes or on the side
of the road, on top of dumpsters. You just had to have the guts to pick them up and
load them in the car without people thinking you were vagrants. We recycled and
upcycled them; now those charming trouvailles give our place this special touch
that is so extraordinarily funky.
What is new in our seldom-seen handmade creations is a product made by a
young Grenadian lady: Rita Julien, from Diamond Estate in St. Marks, a parish on the
west coast of Grenada. She is making crocheted shoulder bags out of non-biodegradable
plastic bags, the most terrible plastic that otherwise destroys marine wildlife.
Her little son cuts the plastic into strips and she does the crochet. She is very
enthusiastic and proud of her craftwork. We are working with her to make the
shapes, the décor and style of her creations ever more beautiful. We have a selection
in different styles and sizes. By buying one of her blue beauties, you help her to
earn an income for her and her children.
What we also offer for this season is fair trade craft jewelry made from recycled
materials including phone cards, bottle caps, aluminium cans and magazine paper.
We in our studio make different ornaments and a special surprise: lucky cranes, folded
in the ancient Japanese origami technique, hanging on a string to decorate
your homes or boats, Christmas tree, anywhere. They bring luck when they swing in
the moving air.
We are asking everyone to bring or send us old dressmaking patterns to wrap the
jewelry that we sell in the boutique. Your sewing dream of that special dress that
you never made is may be somewhere in a locker, drawer or in a box in the garage.
We’d love to get those patterns to downcycle!
Remember we are the batik queens of the Caribbean.
Art Fabrik wishes all Compass readers a Merry Christmas and a good 2013.
Rodney Bay, St. Lucia — Tapas on the Bay!
A great tapas experience should enthrall the senses; small, delectable bites of food
shared with friends at a leisurely pace in a beautiful place with lively conversation
and laughter. You’ll find all this and a warm St. Lucian welcome at Tapas on the
Bay, a vibrant, funky bar, dining and liming spot which offers “little dishes from
around the world”, right on the water beside a convenient dinghy dock in Rodney
Bay Village.
Enjoy a glass of Spanish wine or Sangria with olives and home-baked bread at the
cool, stone-fronted bar, or take a table on the deck overlooking the Rodney Bay
Marina to enjoy a selection of tapas with a few cold beers in the constant Caribbean
breeze. Local freshwater shrimp pan-fried in garlic are a must-do and the menu is full
of beloved tapas dishes like tortilla, chorizo, croquetas and traditional paella.
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