Alexander G.

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Video interviews at World Travel Market 2009 - http://ping.fm/6D7Tn #WTM...

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 3:32 am
Video interviews at World Travel Market 2009 - http://ping.fm/6D7Tn #WTM #HalfMoon #Nisbet Sunswept
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Hotel Le Toiny receives the Grand Chef Taittinger award -...

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 5:49 am
Hotel Le Toiny receives the Grand Chef Taittinger award - http://ping.fm/iuu4J
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Hotel Le Toiny Receives Grand Chef Status

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 5:41 am
St. Barts, French West Indies (11/2009) The Caribbean now has its first Relais & Châteaux property with a Grand Chef distinction. Chef Stéphane Mazières of St. Bart’s Hôtel Le Toiny and its R...
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Updates to tours and prices on Caribbean Horizons - http://ping.fm/5E89o...

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 5:19 am
Updates to tours and prices on Caribbean Horizons - http://ping.fm/5E89o #Grenada
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Death by Octopus - A Lobster's Fate

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 9:10 am
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...
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Jamaica Lightning Bolt racing again after dramatic start to Race 4 of Clipper 09-10

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 4:02 am
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 November 2009 Cape Town, South Africa Jamaica Lightning Bolt is racing towards Geraldton-Greenough, Western Australia, after a dramatic start to Race 4 of Clipper 09-10 in C...
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DOMINICA'S 2010 EVENTS CELEBRATE THE ISLAND'S HERITAGE

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 11:43 am
Here’s a look at some of the events that visitors are welcome to experience for themselves: Carnival Known as one of the Caribbean’s most original Carnivals, Dominica’s Carnival will take place...
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#Definitive #Caribbean #Blog - Accepted onto Best of the Web...

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 4:39 am
#Definitive #Caribbean #Blog - Accepted onto Best of the Web Blogs! http://ping.fm/VMjNO #botw
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Question - Can you add MP3 files to an iPod...

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 4:24 am
Question - Can you add MP3 files to an iPod or can you only use MP4/iTunes with an iPod?
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New look website for Bamboo Walk Hotel - http://ping.fm/foYKZ

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 9:04 am
New look website for Bamboo Walk Hotel - http://ping.fm/foYKZ
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Festive menu at #TheCliff at #CapMaison, St Lucia - http://ping.fm/L5XO3

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 8:51 am
Festive menu at #TheCliff at #CapMaison, St Lucia - http://ping.fm/L5XO3
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Few spaces left at the Raffles Canouan Classic Amateur Golf...

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 7:45 am
Few spaces left at the Raffles Canouan Classic Amateur Golf Tournament - http://ping.fm/IBdqv
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East Winds, St Lucia - Stay 7 nights between 19-24...

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 7:24 am
East Winds, St Lucia - Stay 7 nights between 19-24 Dec and enjoy a free stay on Christmas Day - http://ping.fm/VZrZi
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#Nisbet Plantation clients on #BA service into St Kitts receive...

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 6:04 am
#Nisbet Plantation clients on #BA service into St Kitts receive free return boat transfers to Nevis - http://ping.fm/z6nY4
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6 new Spa Suites in the Royal Court at Half...

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 5:56 am
6 new Spa Suites in the Royal Court at Half Moon Jamaica - http://ping.fm/DDWR3
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Good Morning - A Lesson in Manners

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 10:57 am
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 bar...
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Half Moon's Sugar Mill Restaurant Turns Forty

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 5:00 am
Celebrate on 21 November, 2009 at 7:00pm. Rose Hall, Jamaica, November 2009 – One of the oldest restaurants in Jamaica, the Sugar Mill Restaurant at Half Moon in partnership with Caribbean Producer...
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World Travel Market 2009 - A Precursor

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 4:07 am
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 f...
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Shore Side Sailing with Horizon Antigua

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 10:48 am
Enjoy the best of both worlds with a NEW ‘Shore Side Sailing’ package which has been launched by Horizon Yacht Charters Antigua, an American Sailing Association (ASA) affiliated facility offering ...
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Jet Lag - Can it work in your favour?

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 6:29 am
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 of...
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New day trip options from Antigua to Montserrat

Alexander G. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 5:34 am
Holidaymakers in Antigua can take advantage of an exciting excursion to Montserrat with lower-priced day trip packages by air now available. A ferry service will also return between the two islands in...
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Developments in Dominica for 2010

Alexander G. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 7:34 am
1. The Waitukubuli National Trail set to raise the bar for Caribbean activity holidays The opening of the Caribbean’s first long-distance hiking trail within the next two years is set to attract a...
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A few things you probably never knew about Bananas

Alexander G. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 10:02 am
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 m...
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Halloween Haunted Zipline Tours on St Kitts

Alexander G. posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 10:10 am
Halloween haunted Zipline Tours (The stinch of Gloom for a night of doom), Halloween costumes are accepted, closed toes shoes are required. Tour starts at 9:30pm USD $45.00 per person, group of ten (1...
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Accents Galore

Alexander G. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 7:41 am
It’s one of those quiet pleasures of travelling the Caribbean. To hear, in the speech of West Indians, sounds that you are sure originate elsewhere. Well, they might, anyway. Accents are notoriously...
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Review of Jamaica Farewell by Morris Cargill (1978, Barricade Books, 1995)

Alexander G. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 5:44 am
Jamaica Farewell is an exceptionally touching memoir of a man in the process of leaving an island to which he belongs. It was the 1970s, politically a difficult time around the Caribbean, and many of ...
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Treasure Beach Announces New Chef - Kirk Kirton

Alexander G. posted an article on - Sep 29, 2009, 8:50 am
Treasure Beach has recently announced the appointment of Kirk Kirton as Head Chef. Kirton takes the helm at the hotel’s award-winning ‘Al Fresco’ restaurant in time for the winter season and pro...
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Retractabelt Limbo - Arrivals in Nassau

Alexander G. posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 9:50 am
Airports are mostly pretty faceless, sterile places, despite what Alain de Botton (recently writer in residence at Terminal 5) would have us believe. The terminals are generally pretty ugly and people...
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Barbados Art Happenings - October 2009

Alexander G. posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 5:42 am
THE GALLERIES AT LANCASTER GREAT HOUSE The Galleries, Gallery Shop and Gardens at Lancaster Great House are available for viewing (by appointment only). Please call 432 0458. 1. The Summer Exhib...
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Transatlantic Race 2 underway for Jamaica Lightning Bolt

Alexander G. posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 4:45 am
22nd September The Bay of Biscay has the reputation of being one of the most feared stretches of ocean in the world. This morning, however, it was more pussy cat than lion for the start of Race 2 of ...
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Caribbean Citrus Fruit - Shaddock, Tangor, Ortanique

Alexander G. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 4:08 am
As you’d expect, there are many different types of citrus fruit in the Caribbean. You’ll see them in colourful piles in the markets - limes, lemons, oranges (or ‘greens’ as some of them ought ...
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Caribbean Dominos - A Game of Slap and Slide!

Alexander G. posted an article on - Sep 14, 2009, 9:31 am
Dominos is an all-Caribbean game, played from Cayman round to Curaçao, and particularly via Cuba, where even El Jefe, Fidel Castro, was known to be partial to a game. You will see it in action in ba...
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Jamaica Lightning Bolt out of the starting blocks for Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race

Alexander G. posted an article on - Sep 14, 2009, 8:00 am
More than 100,000 people lined the banks of the Humber to watch the start of the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race today. As the cannon fired, the ten internationally sponsored yachts crossed t...
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JAMAICA LIGHTNING BOLT ARRIVES IN HULL

Alexander G. posted an article on - Sep 8, 2009, 7:18 am
Jamaica Lightning Bolt, one of ten stripped-down 68 foot ocean racing yachts sailed past The Deep, the iconic ‘submarium’ visitor attraction in Hull, North Yorkshire, UK, in readiness for the Clip...
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Round Hill Chef Brings a Jamaican Splash to New York

Alexander G. posted an article on - Sep 7, 2009, 9:06 am
Chef Martin Maginley of Round Hill Hotel and Villas in Montego Bay, Jamaica added a pinch of Jamaican spice and a splash of Jamaican rum to the BNP Paribas Taste of Tennis event at the W Hotel in New ...
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Irony in the Islands - Caribbean Maps Come Alive

Alexander G. posted an article on - Sep 7, 2009, 3:35 am
It’s an eccentric view, to be sure, but I have often imagined the Caribbean islands as an animal skeleton. It sits, looking left, perched at Jamaica, its body Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Rep...
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Petit St Vincent - a Stunning Private Island

Alexander G. posted an article on - Sep 4, 2009, 4:04 am
Petit St. Vincent in the Grenadines – affectionately known as PSV – is considered by many to be paradise. There is no ‘hotel’ or ‘room’ to speak of, just 22 simple yet luxuriously comforta...
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Please Help Baby Ashcher - Trying to Raise BDS$150,000

Alexander G. posted an article on - Sep 2, 2009, 6:13 am
MOST NEW OR EXPECTANT MOTHERS dream about the day they can take their babies home with them from hospital. Crystal Bynoe did not have this privilege. Seven weeks after giving birth, the 23-year-ol...
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Harum Scarum - Caribbean Flight Frights

Alexander G. posted an article on - Sep 1, 2009, 2:43 am
As a group of islands, you’d expect the Caribbean to have some, well... ‘sporting’ landing strips. And so it turns out. There are short runways, runways with cross-winds, runways with cliffs at ...
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Barbados Art Happenings - September 2009

Alexander G. posted an article on - Aug 26, 2009, 11:49 am
#17 ART GALLERY Corrie Scott’s studio/gallery. Original fine art and photography, limited edition lithographs, prints and cards. For viewing appointments please contact Corrie as she may be out pain...
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JAMAICA SPRINTS TO CLIPPER 09-10 ROUND THE WORLD YACHT RACE START

Alexander G. posted an article on - Aug 25, 2009, 3:17 am
Olympic gold medallist sprinter Usain Bolt was on hand to help celebrate the announcement that Jamaica will field an entry in the Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race. Jamaica’s Minister for Tou...
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Firefly - Light Emiting Diode or Lights Emits Dies

Alexander G. posted an article on - Aug 24, 2009, 4:43 am
Of all the weird and wonderful instances of insect behaviour found around the Caribbean – and there are ‘Hercules’ beetles six inches long in Dominica and ancient insects millions of years old c...
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Half Moon Nabs Prestigious Virtuoso Award

Alexander G. posted an article on - Aug 24, 2009, 3:48 am
August 20 (Las Vegas, Nevada) – Over 6000 travel professionals from Virtuoso, the U.S. leading luxury travel network, cast their ballots declaring Half Moon the Best Family Programme at Virtuoso’s...
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Paradise Pavilion - Ladera's New Panoramic Wedding Venue

Alexander G. posted an article on - Aug 18, 2009, 11:52 am
An unparalleled destination wedding locale to open in December 2009, 1,100 feet above the sea. Ladera will unveil its new Paradise Pavilion, a dramatic open-air destination wedding venue destined to b...
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How to Eat an Orange - Markets in Santo Domingo

Alexander G. posted an article on - Aug 17, 2009, 6:07 am
West Indians certainly do sales with aplomb. Market stalls are as carefully presented as art galleries. You might see a range of colour co-ordinated cigarette packets, a pyramid of avocados or a clutc...
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Ocean Park Marine Aquarium Facing Closure

Alexander G. posted an article on - Aug 17, 2009, 3:56 am
OCEAN PARK has run out of money, and needs an injection of funds if it is to have a future. August 30 has already been identified as the final day of operations for the park, pending the results of ...
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Newly Refurbished Rooms & Suites Unveiled at Peter Island Resort & Spa

Alexander G. posted an article on - Aug 14, 2009, 5:48 am
Peter Island Resort & Spa, an idyllic private island in the heart of the British Virgin Islands is delighted to announce the completed refurbishment of all 32 Ocean View Rooms and 20 Beachfront Junior...
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How to Eat a Mango - Or Survive The Guadarun!

Alexander G. posted an article on - Aug 10, 2009, 9:33 am
Plenty of types of fruit can be a bit messy to eat, but none surely tops a mango, for which frankly you need a bib? Or possibly swimming trunks. I met a person who jokingly said that they are best eat...
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FINALS OF THE HI-PRO & ICWI FAMILY POLO TOURNAMENT

Alexander G. posted an article on - Aug 4, 2009, 7:57 am
The Finals of the season ending High Goal Section of the Hi-Pro & ICWI Family Polo Tournament took place on Saturday, August 1, 2009 at the St. Ann Polo Club in front of a huge crowd from all over the...
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I work for Definitive Caribbean which is an online guide to the region. I also run a real estate website - Caribbean Property International. If you'd like to know anything about the Caribbean, give me a shout...

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