Holidays & Sails

Today marks another day of Montserratian intrigue - it seems that the last Monday of May here is a bank holiday, which of course works out nicely for most of us. However, nobody (including a few people who live here) seems to know exactly why it's a holiday when I asked around. Given that it's the Memorial Day weekend in the States this weekend, it might have something to do with that - although I can't imagine how.

(Update: After some snooping around online, I have discovered that today is Whit Monday, a Christian holiday. According to Wikipedia, Whit Monday "was also a public holiday in various former British colonies, especially in the Pacific. It is still a public holiday in some of the countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean.")

But still, I am certainly not one to question my good luck - having only found out last Friday that today is a bank holiday, I've been using this free day to catch up on a bit of lesson planning and work. All after a weekend of dinghy sailing and tackle fishing with Jon Stone. Jon managed to procure a Sunfish, on loan from the Montserrat Yacht Club, for the weekend and here's the result.