standbycars If you re driving to Gros Islet, turn off the highway from Castries onto Dauphine Street, just north

The French, Dutch, & English By 1520, St. Lucia was marked on a Vatican globe, but at that time it was merely a hideout for pirates and other bad chaps who wreacked havoc on legitimate standbycars businessmen trading in the islands. The most infamous was Fran ois Le Clerc, who the Spanish called Pie de Palo and the French labeled Jambe de Bois (leg of wood) because of his prosthetic limb.

If you re driving to Gros Islet, turn off the highway from Castries onto Dauphine Street, just north of Rodney Bay Marina. Don t plan to spend much time in town, because there s little to see. The only interesting structure is the Catholic church on the north side of the village. St. Joseph the Worker was built in 1926 on the site of another church that was destroyed by an earthquake 20 years earlier.