Today is #MarketFriday initiated by @dswigle (Denise, that's me!!) I hope you will join me as we share different markets across the globe. I always look forward to seeing what you send me! It is amazing to see so many different markets and different cultures.
Please leave the link to your post on here so it can easily be found by others. They are so much easier to find in one place. Where else can you take such a quick trip around the globe? Thank you so much for joining us!! ❤
While visiting the island of St. Kitts, we decided to make an adventure day and go to an old British Fort called Brimstone Hill. Tag along and see if you don't have a good time! Entry fee is $10.00 - and you can pay at the door. Pictured above is the soldier quarters, down the hill from the most extensive and well-preserved British polygonal style fortification in all of the Americas.
Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is one of the current 19 Caribbean UNESCO World Heritage sites due to the historical, architectural and cultural significance of the fortress. It is also one of the most extensive and well-preserved British polygonal style fortifications in the Western Hemisphere. Plus from its lofty perch, you can see spectacular vistas of the Caribbean Sea, five neighboring Caribbean islands (St. Barts, St. Eustatius, Saba St Martin, Nevis ) and the lush rainforest of St Kitts.source
This is a view of the Prince of Wales Bastion at Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park. It has sweeping views from the top of the hill, overlooking this entire part of the island.
The fort was abandoned by the British in 1853, and the militia disbanded in 1854. The structures gradually started to decay through vandalism and natural processes. Stabilization and restoration of the remaining structures of the fortress started in the early 1900s. In 1973, HRH Prince Charles reopened the first area to be completely restored, which was the Prince of Wales Bastion. source
We are history nuts, the whole bunch of us and this suited us just perfectly. There is a massive parking lot down at the bottom of the hill and to get to the main fort, you have to climb up a pretty steep (read 800 feet up) hill. It was fine for me, but, there were people that were huffing and I felt a little bit bad. It was started in 1690 and took about 100 years to build this fort, using slave labor from Africa. There is a film that goes over the entire history. It runs all day. I wandered around, wondering what it would have been like to live at the fort, the compound, having a store right there and all the essential items. The views were spectacular and there were many ruins around the fort that we wandered through.
High on a hill in St Kitts near Sandy Point is a historic time capsule. Stone walls of volcanic rock were fashioned and laid by African slaves using limestone from the slopes as a mortar. This was for the Brimstone Hill Fortress designed by British engineers to protect their interest against the French who despite having signed a Treaty of Partition in 1627 dividing St Kitts, mounted guns against the British in July 1689 capturing not just Fort Charles which had been designated neutral territory but the entire island. Then after reinforcement troops arrived from Britain and St Kitts was once again regained from the French, construction of the fortress with 800ft walls started in 1690 and took over 100 years to complete. Brimstone Hill Fortress is now a national park, and one of the top tourist attraction on St Kitts. source
The ticket included a map and a detailed history and placement of everything... Well I must say that you were adventurous people today and I think you for tagging along and seeing the Fort, There were so many pictures, but, I didn't want to bore you to death~
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I have been to so many new places lately! I love to share and be shared with! I have always and forever liked to see different fruits and vegetables or products that are being sold. Perhaps I cannot get them here. So, yes! I would love to see yours! Don't forget to take photos wherever you happen to be shopping - whether it be the grocery store, the local marketplace or even an art gallery. Wherever money is exchanged for a service or for merchandise. Be different if you wish! It does not have to be a traditional market! We will love it! I promise you! Don't forget to use the hashtag #MarketFriday and @dswigle.
The soldiers' living quarters at the Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park, a World Heritage site in St Kitts.
Happy International Women's Day to you!
One is not born a woman, one becomes one. – Simone de Beauvoir
Don't ever forget what a wonderful world we live in, people. Let's hold hands around the globe and make this earth really spin. Some days, it is not as easy to see, so we must try harder to give everyone the proper focus.
Later that night
I held an atlas in my lap
Ran my fingers across the whole world
And whispered,
"Where does it hurt?"
It answered,
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