Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine July 2018 | Page 302
Events
MONSTERRAT
JULY
GRENADA
Gouyave Fish of
Friday
Calendar
Events
2016
Seafood lovers will enjoy this event held
every Friday from 6:00 pm in the West coast
town of Gouyave. This is a year-long event.
CARRIACOU & PETITE MARTINIQUE
POPULATION
SIZE
105,897 (2013) 344 sq. kilometers
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE CAPITAL CITY
English
CURRENCY
Eastern Caribbean Dollar
(1 US dollar equals 2.67 Eastern Caribbean )
St. George’s
AVERAGE TEMPERATURE
280 C / 820 F
JULY
.
Kiddies Carnival
OCTOBER
JULY .
Mt. Moritz
Community
NOVEMBER
Breakfast
.
Enjoy a true Grenadian breakfast
in a lovely
community setting
in
the
village
DECEMBER of Mt.
Moritz. Held once per month, this event
is an authentic island experience. Talk to
your tour operators, enquire at your hotel
or simply take a cab and ask them to take
you up to Mt. Moritz breakfast. Deliciously
Grenadian!
AUGUST
NOVEMBER
Annual
Carriacou
Regatta
Alliouaguana
Literary
Festival
This Book
four-day
regatta and
attracts
local by and
presentations
readings
guest
international
participants
-
work
authors, storytelling under the stars, boats,
open mike
racing performances
boats, sailing
and
yachts.
and boats
literary
workshops.
Click here for more information
Rainbow City Festival
DECEMBER
The parish of St. Andrew comes alive every
year during the first
weekend of August
Carnival
with This
a celebration
of from
culture,
food, music.,
Festival runs
mid-December
until
pageants
and
street
parties.
New Year’s Day, and is the climax of the year.
Splendid
summer
Calypso
competitions,
the fun!
Festival Queen
competition, beauty and talent shows, and
the parade of costumed troupes on New
Year’s Day, as well as Masqueraders dancing
Spicemas
(Grenada
Carnival)
in the streets.
As night falls,
excitement
The builds
premier
summer
event,
is
up at street ‘jump ups’ ‘Spicemas’
informal dancing
Grenadian
cultural
expression
in
all
its
glory,
in the street, with exuberant crowds following a
climaxing during
second
truck the
playing
loud Monday
music. and
Tuesday in August. Calypsonians, steel pan
orchestras, beauty contestants, ‘fancy mas’
bands and others, perform and parade to
compete for Carnival honors.
AUGUST
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© Pure
Grenada
Photo Credit:
Rein
Ketelaars