When I tell people I live in Guadeloupe, they often think that means Mexico. Interestingly, there are a number of towns and an island named Guadalupe (pronounced “gwa da loo pay”) in Mexico (and other Spanish-speaking countries), and I’m not sure which one they’re thinking of.<\/p>\n
In any case, I don’t live in Mexico: I live in France. <\/p>\n
More specifically, I live in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe<\/b> (pronounced “gwa deu loop”), an archipelago featuring a butterfly-shaped island located between Montserrat and Dominica in the Caribbean. Gwada, as locals call it, is just as French as Provence and Alsace, but separated from l’Hexagone<\/a><\/i> (mainland France) by the Atlantic Ocean (just as Hawaii is separated from the rest of the United States by the Pacific).<\/p>\n