This fabled sea, covering more than a million square miles and 7,000 islands with diverse languages, cultures, and ecosystems, has become probably the planet's premier vacation playground. Here it's all about its regional issues and allures. And yes, the (Plus) means we're including the Bahamas and Bermuda along with the Caribbean coasts of Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guayana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Suriname, and Panama.

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5 highlights of Dutch Sint Maarten

Dave Senior Taking up 40 percent of the island of St. Martin and with a population of around 58,000, this territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands packs a whole lot of fun, flavor, and personality into a petite package. Whereas French St. Martin leans elegant and relaxed, the multicultural, largely English-speaking Dutch side offers its share of quiet corners, but also a livelier menu of casinos, nightlife, beach bars, waterfront dining – along some of the most photographed aircraft landings…

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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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  • Ed Wetschler March 4, 2014 at 4:07pm

    An apology and correction: The tweetchat about Guadeloupe, the hottest destination in the Caribbean (up 23% in 2013), is today at 2 pm., not yesterday. I hope you can make it. For corrected invitation see 

    http://www.tripatini.com/group/caribbean/forum/topics/guadeloupe-tw...

  • Terence Baker May 15, 2013 at 4:54pm

    St John is beautiful, but the second best on earth! Besides, how silly is it even to have a ranking system. But...#1 of the ones I have been to, Kauai; #2, Kerrera, Scotland; #3, Isle of Dogs, London (actually, that's a fib!).

  • Julie May 15, 2013 at 4:47pm

    Hi Victor, it's a quick direct flight from San Juan on the new Seaborne airlines (replacing the American Eagle flight). If you want to visit during sea turtle season, it is from March - October each year. 

  • Victor Balbin May 15, 2013 at 10:54am

    I have to go there...thanks for the info

  • Ed Wetschler May 15, 2013 at 3:37am

    Rosalie Bay Resort: It's on my short list of resorts I very much want to visit. 

  • Julie May 14, 2013 at 9:48pm

    From grandchildren in Minnesota to baby sea turtles in Dominica -

    The owner of Rosalie Bay Resort on Dominica shares her journey, leaving behind family in Minnesota, to creating the eco resort and saving sea turtles in the newest episode of EX-PATS.

    View her inspiring story here: http://youtu.be/wAERD78uoFw

  • Ed Wetschler March 29, 2013 at 8:13pm

    Steven, I think it's May 2-6. If you want to contact me directly, email ed@tripatini.net. 

  • Steven Glasser March 29, 2013 at 7:15pm

    Yup, still living in Antigua.  When will you be here?

     

  • Ed Wetschler March 29, 2013 at 7:02pm

    Bequia -- yes, that's a keeper. Still living in Antigua? I'm going there for a few days next month. 

  • Steven Glasser March 29, 2013 at 6:25pm

    Sorry, but having lived in the Caribbean, on one island or another for the past 30 years, I don't think that anything can compare to Bequia !!

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