Before I traveled to Montserrat, my fellow Peace Corps Volunteer, Rick W., and I communicated about my trip via postcard. We did not have cell phones obviously. But some of us did not even have phones in our houses or apartments in the Caribbean. This postcard shows Old Bay Road in Montserrat. A lovely view fram in bougainvillea, from the Vue Pointe Hotel.
Montserrat stamps visitors’ passports with a shamrock, because it was settled by Irish Catholics fleeing religious persecution in nearby St. Kitts. It’s the only Caribbean island that celebrates St. Patrick’s Day as a public holiday. As of December 2020, Montserrat is one of the remaining 17 non-self-governing territories. The British acquired Montserrat in 1783.
