Topic Tag: Gardens

Culture, Festivals and Events, United Kingdom

Flower power: the Caribbean at the Royal Chelsea Flower Show

Imagine having to put your cut flowers to bed at night, tucked up in a warm blanket! This is what happens when tropical blooms are flown...

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Arrive, Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Jamaica

Jamaica’s Hope Gardens: “Where your childhood memories are”

“I’ve always felt like Hope Gardens are where your childhood memories are when you can’t find them. I’m sure many Jamaicans feel...

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Arrive, Leisure, Travel, Cuba, Martinique, Suriname, Barbados, Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Earthy delights

Andromeda Gardens Bathsheba, Barbados Near a steep cliff overlooking the island’s east coast, Barbados’s best-known garden began as the...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Belize

The coral gardens of Belize’s Cockroach Caye

Rarely do tropical island-dwellers praise hurricanes, so Leigh and I listen when Carlos Miller explains how the periodic storms help...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Jamaica

Cranbrook Gardens: Water, Water, Everywhere

You’re never far from water at Cranbrook. Even when you can’t see water, the sound of it is everywhere. Not surprising, since the...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, St. Lucia

Hit the road in St. Lucia

GO WEST, OLD MAN St Lucia’s west coast road, heading south, is narrow and winding, twisting its way up and down as it hugs unforgiving...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Barbados

Barbados: Total Vacation

What is it about Barbados that keeps pulling people back? “Come Back to Barbados”, the slogan used to say, and that’s what people do....

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Sweet St Vincent

The Anglican church in the village of Biabou stood on the edge of the bluff, morosely looking out to sea. The Atlantic lay still and...

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