Turquoise Caribbean beaches, tropical flowers and the finest rum: this is also Europe. Martinique is the smallest island in the Antilles Françaises and is part of the EU.
Almost everything is as familiar to the French as it is at home: the language, the law, the baguette. The flora provides colourful exoticism, while a whistling frog provides deafening night concerts. The 30 x 80 kilometre Caribbean island, which, like its big sister Guadeloupe, is administratively part of France as a pays d'outre-mer, is a tropical and exotic natural jewel, especially in the primeval forests of the Montagne Pelée. Île aux fleurs is the name of the Caribbean island - and its flora would make any flower boutique envious: pink porcelain roses, bright red flower reeds, orange-yellow lobster claws and parrot's beak, hibiscus and bougainvillea. What a riot of colours. And the fruit, like here in Tartane, where this mango tree bends under the heavy weight of its juicy fruit on the promenade.
Hello and welcome! Here are the best photos I've ever taken: Hilke - a true Hamburg girl with a lot of France in her heart. I trained as an editor and, after two decades with various publishing houses, I've been working as a freelance journalist for print, .. Read more…
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