I’m not sure that many would want to follow my own experience of travelling the Caribbean. I essentially hitch-hiked on yachts from island to island for a few weeks: great fun of course, although the sinking just off Antigua is better to look back on than it was to go through, the being thrown off Montserrat (by my Mother’s cousin, no less) was something of a surprise and sharing the underside of a jetty with an inquisitive land crab for the length of a full very rainy night was, well, less than exciting to live through.

So in a message from our sponsors, why not try a Caribbean holiday in conditions of rather more comfort?

Discover such oddities as Papiamento, one of those relics of the colonial era: it’s passed from a pigeon into a full language, with words and grammar adopted from all over the place. Remember that Caribbean clothing is rather  more puritan than it is on hte Med. It’s also true that, on the smaller islands at least, other than the fish most of the food is imported: expensive and not all that good.

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