This delightully low-key town of just under 27,000 is located on the south coast´s Road Harbour. Apart from most of the BVI´s shops, restaurants, and boat charter firms, it´s home to the Virgin Islands Folk Museum, which brims with pre-Columbian artifacts that were used by people who once inhabited the islands; stories it tells also include tales of pirates and buccaneers who found a home base for seeking quick treasure, and British colonists who came to stay. Nearby, the J.R. O'Neal Botanic Gardens is an oasis of tropical plants that represent the islands´different habitats. Though given the lush foliage that proliferates everywhere, even such a magnificent garden seemed almost redundant to me. 

Read more in Tripatini contributor Victor Block's post Sun, Surf, Sand, and Much More in the British Virgin Islands. 

Victor Block