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Chilling on Tortola and Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands

  Victor Block My husband Victor and I are travel writers. Which means when we get to a destination, we explore every aspect, constantly seeking out stories. Until we got to Tortola, capital of the British Virgin Islands, with a population around 15,000. That didn’t happen. And it was almost like — dare I say the word? — a vacation. But let’s back up a bit. We are a lot older than our last trip here 30 years ago when my husband had the temerity to actually hazard driving. To put the roads in…

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Rum and much more in Barbados

  Victor Block Most travelers know that most Caribbean islands are soaked in rum, but Barbados goes the rest one better because here, locals say, is where rum was discovered. In capital Bridgetown one early-17th-century day, the story goes, a tavern owner was searching for an empty shipping barrel when he inadvertently stumbled across one filled with a concoction worth selling -- a barrel of sugar cane fermented over time. Well, Mr. Rumball -- the tavern owner -- knew a good thing when he…

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7 cool things to see/do on Saba

  Richie Diesterheft Never heard of it? You´re far from alone – last year just 5,700 flights – by one of the Caribbean´s lowest arrivals figures – landed on its third smallest island (just five square miles/13 sq. kilometers sitting on an dormant volcano Mount Scenery, with a population of just under 2,000). But those in the know realize that the self-styled "unspoiled queen," part of the Caribbean Netherlands (along with Bonaire and Sint Eustatius, aka Statia) and first settled in the 1640s,…

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  • Ed Wetschler December 15, 2011 at 8:33pm

    Just out: the least expensive destinations in the Caribbean. #1-4 kind of make sense: Cancun, Negril, San Juan, and Puerto Plata. But look who comes in as #5: Barbados. Are you as surprised as I am? 

  • Victor Balbin December 13, 2011 at 8:22am

    For a taste of the Caribbean and in specif old San Juan, this is what i do for a living and a special HAPPY HOLIDAY song

  • David Paul Appell November 23, 2011 at 6:17pm

    Fans of ecotourism, adventure, and the Dominican Republic, please check out my post on one of nature's most impressive annual shows (starting in January): whale-watching off Samaná.

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  • Victor Balbin October 25, 2011 at 2:54pm
    Puerto Rico in the Caribbean in 57 minutes
  • David Paul Appell September 14, 2011 at 2:22am
    Can you help one of our members re Caribbean vacation rental ideas?  For more details and to reply, please click on this link to our Ask A Travel Pro forum.  Thanks so much!
  • Hotel Mocking Bird Hill July 20, 2011 at 5:22pm
    Why not? Look at what we are doing at Hotel Mocking Bird Hill. Just take us as an example. It just needs the will to change along with education of the traveller. The small island states NEED tourism to be green if they are to sustain development.
  • Hotel Mocking Bird Hill July 20, 2011 at 5:19pm
    Tours and Attractions from Hotel Mocking Bird Hill
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  • iMadinina 4 iPhone April 26, 2011 at 9:24am
    iKiwo: a free app to get the weather of the whole caribbean island!! http://itunes.apple.com/apps/iKiwo
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