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[nettiesaur]

(03-25-2012 09:45 AM)NWoBHM Wrote:  

(03-25-2012 09:14 AM)nettiesaur Wrote:  

(03-25-2012 07:57 AM)NWoBHM Wrote:  I dream too - maybe Montserrat, or Nevis.......

Apparently, that is where the saying, "When my boat comes in", literally comes from - the trade ships, coming safely and successfully into port, and your fortune made.

Also "Copper Bottomed", refers to the Brit fleet in the Caribbean having been equipped with copper bottoms, which made them (French Navy commander quote), "100 years more advanced than his fleet", and able with superior speed and agility to give the French a "good kicking" (again!!).

I thought Montserrat was basically destroyed by the volcano.

Hi Nettie,

I think the airport and "old" capital "Plymouth" were pretty much destroyed, but they have re-built another airport and have a new capital, and I think AIR Studios building survived but it is now in the "no go area" or "The Exclusion Zone" (as they call it) of the island.

I am pretty sure Sir George Martin still lives on Montserrat?

Also - I might be wrong, but wasn`t there a large medical school there for US Doctors etc??

I need to do some more research - but a lot of the island is still habitable.

I actually walked up to the rim of the volcanoe the "Soufriere" on honey moon - which I am pretty sure I read RUSH did the same when making Hold Your Fire, (seems almost prescience looking back). And visited AIr Studios - picture for you....



Here is a map indicating the exclusion zone and Plymouth etc -

Nice pictures!
So, there's only a small liveable zone. I suppose you'd need to have won the lottery to be able to afford to live there. A lot would have to be brought onto the island, if you couldn't grow it yourself, and that would be quite expensive.