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Last week was full of flamingo fun for us in Aruba. Aruba is host to flamingos but they reside on an island owned by one of the hotels rather than on a public beach. You will often see photos of…
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Our first Aruba carnival is over and thoroughly enjoyed. Carnival season in Aruba is held during the month of February and a great way to get over any lingering Christmas blues. Aruba’s carnival goes back to the 1920’s when the…
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We live next to a National Trust site in the middle of Barbados and before we moved in we thought that the only noise we would have to deal with would be coaches of Hawaiian shirt clad cruise ship visitors…
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One of the things that made me more comfortable about living on the island rather than the city life I am used to, was the discovery of the Sunday night drag act at Ragamuffins restaurant in Holetown. One of my…
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Crop Over is the Barbados Festival held to celebrate the end of the sugar cane harvest season and ends with the Kadooment Parade and Carnival on the 1st Monday of August. It is a colourful explosion of culture, music and…
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I spent my first year in Barbados going crazy with boredom as I had been used to city living and had a career for the most part of my life. Previously, when the husband’s job meant that we moved to…
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