Well we have finally arrived in the Caribbean.  We are currently alongside in Martinique, a small French governed island, where the weather is hot and sunny with occasional showers.  Temperatures are around 27 degrees, with a welcome cooling breeze but it is also a bit humid. (Sorry Tony but don’t expect any sympathy).

We eventually sailed two days late due to bad weather in Plymouth but made good time and arrived on schedule.  We began by heading south to pick up highway 10, a route 10 degrees north of the equator that the drug runners use from the Caribbean to Africa and we have been hunting them all the way across the pond.  None found as yet but plenty of intelligence going to the right people, so watch out drug runners!  Food is tops and the work pattern is fine, although there is always plenty of admin. work to get on with when we are not flying.

We are now in Martinique and enjoyed a reception with several hundred locals last night.  Due in Norfolk on Friday 13 April.  My running has been curtailed for the past seven days as during my last trip off Sierra Leone last year, I picked up an Achilles tweak and have yet to get over it.  The Doctor here told me to rest for seven days so I am a little frustrated that I have been unable to keep fit.  Although my first race is planned for the Truro Half Marathon in September, so I have plenty of time to rectify fitness levels.

Hope all of you are training and enjoying the early summer weather that I have been told you are basking in.  Ours is 31/32 degrees every day at the moment.  Well got to go now, there is a social gathering going on again, so much Bacardi to be drunk.....

More to follow.

Running regards

Tony