After La Vierge, we headed to Terre D'en Bas, another inhabited island with a small community.  There are a few small hotels and a couple of restaurants and that is about it.  The beach area near the town is also beautiful.  The restaurant we chose for lunch was called Chez Eugenete and specialised in Creole food. 

 Our lunch restaurant

The food here is generally a mix of French and Creole and wonderful.  Really fresh fish and vegetables seem to be the staple diet.  We have eaten so much salad over the last few days - John is getting quite concerned as he is starting to look for salads on the menus and ordering them instead of what he calls real food - is this a slippery slope?  What will it be next, a David Beckham style sarong for the beach??

Anyway, when we arrived there was no menu.  There was a choice of conch, (which neither of us has tried yet), chicken, (too dull) something else that we didn't understand, and lastly coffre which is a local fish.  I am not sure what the English translation would be, I have tried and failed to find out form the internet. We had seen the remains of this on another table and it did look strange, almost like a fish in a shell - which is exactly what it turned out to be!!  The first thing they brought us was fried cod fish balls, which are a local speciality and really tasty.  Then the fish arrived - it did in fact have a shell.  Both fish stood up on the plate.  The waitress attacked mine for me and basically broke open he shell and scooped the whole lot out, guts and everything - I think you are meant to eat these, but they taste a bit odd and there was masses of fish anyway so they went on the rubbish pile.  The fish was almost like chicken breast in texture - but tasted amazing, nothing like chicken.  It came with salad and green papaya.  In the Caribbean they eat green, unripened, papaya and banana cooked as a vegetable which are delicious.

Having eaten the fish, it was time for dessert. This again appeared on the table for us and was banana absolutely swimming in rum and flambeed.  They use huge quantities of rum in everything here, whether it is food or drink.  John had a sorbet last night which was floating in rum.  It is so strong that we have decided that 2 is our maximum or we are not fit for anything, and fall asleep by about 8.30pm!!  The remaining rum and banana mixture, was by recommendation poured into our coffee - I can highly recommend this.  

 After all this food we headed to the beach for a well earned rest.