Ladies who lunch

This Saturday we finally felt it was time to check out some of the local cuisine after eating multiple variations on traditional student food thanks to the university's shocking excuse for a kitchen and the price of peas. After a quick recovery from our 7h30 lecture (classes this early on a Saturday are just pure torture) we headed down to the beach at Schoelcher where there's a cute snack bar/restaurant for a late lunch.

I decided to go for the local Creole salad, made with Accras de Morue (the only possible way of explaining it is like mixing cod with a savoury doughnut. It's not as bad as it sounds, I promise!), black pudding and dressed crab who even came in a little shell with peppery hair :) It might seem quite shocking that so many of us ordered a salad when there's so many steaks, burgers etc. on the menu but as it's about 6€ for a small bag of salad in the supermarkets it was quite nice to have something healthy for a change (until we got totally stuck in on the salad dressing of course)!  

All washed down with a chilled glass of planters punch, a local cocktail made with rhum (obviously), fruit juice and grenadine with various spices.   

And with the restaurant leading directly on to our local beach with views like this it would of course be rude not to stay for a few hours, or maybe until the sun sets...

Got to make the most of it whilst the sun is shining after all!