We have been traveling in the Caribbean for over eighty years and we have a variety of stories to share from our experiences about Caribbean food, activities, books, music, films, and Caribbean characters.
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You’d think that being a lobster would make you pretty much invincible on the reefs of the Caribbean. This is possibly except where humans are concerned, who can simply pick you up and drop you in a pot of boiling water. But generally lobsters would...
It’s one of those aspects of West Indian life. You are expected to greet people, when you meet them. Even if you don’t know them. It sometimes seems odd, coming from a big city in which people barely even look one another in the eye. But in the...
Whoops. Apologies for the oversight this week. No entry for the Definitive Caribbean blog.
You’ll be glad to know, however, we have been using our time well at World Travel Market, a travel trade fair, which is a travel experience in itself....
Flights to the Caribbean from Europe leave in the middle of the day. It’s not exactly a normal time to go to sleep, but in my case – as I’ve usually packed late into the night before - I doze off when there’s a moment’s quiet (knowing...
Bananas plants are not trees. Technically they are actually very large herbs. They grow from a rhizome, on a stem of tightly packed leaves a bit like a cigar. They can grow as tall as five metres or more.
They fruit once, producing a proboscis that...
The author's extensive knowledge and experience of the Caribbean shows, and as one of the UK's leading travel writers, James Henderson, can be relied upon to come up with well-written content. Packed with interest, variety and a certain quirkiness, which is fun, this is a blog to follow if you have any genuine interest in the Caribbean.
