The original activity we’d booked for Barbados included diving at a shipwreck and snorkeling with turtles, but we were told 2 days before this that it was bagged for some reason. We changed to a snorkeling with turtles + catamaran trip to salvage it, and the trip was really fun. The port setup in Bridgetown,…
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When we arrived in St. Lucia, we realized we’d been paying for rides to beaches several times lately, so our goal was to not pay for a ride anywhere. If we couldn’t walk it, we weren’t going. That would help save money. To start: 2 miles’ walk into town. In the blazing sun. The area…
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Arriving in St. John’s, Antigua, we walked around a bit before deciding we wanted to go to a beach, so we headed back to where all of the taxi drivers were hounding the tourists coming off the ship. Unfortunately, most people had already filled up their vans and headed off while we wandered, so we…
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My wife & I took a week-long cruise out of Puerto Rico, stopping at a bunch of countries we’d never been to before. The first one was Bassetterre, the capital of St. Kitts & Nevis. We didn’t do anything special, just walking around all day, which was fun, other than slamming my toe (wearing flip-flops)…
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Imagine someone convincing you to get in a van to go to “the prettiest beach in all of the Caribbean” then showing up and thinking “I’ve been to at least 10 prettier beaches than this in the Caribbean”. That was our experience going to Magens Bay Beach on the north coast of St. Thomas, USVI….
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