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By Susan Hall This week I found myself with a bit of writer’s block.  Now that’s crazy!  How on earth can you develop writer’s block after only 3 art­icles?!  Thing is, the ideas are the easy part; they are incess­ant, but get­ting them together, put­ting pen to paper and tying them into a work­able, mean­ing­ful, [...]

Category : Environment

The incess­ant cough­ing, that was what was wor­ry­ing him…coughing day and night and look­ing fright­fully pale. As George Washington observed his half-brother, Lawrence, he wondered when last he had eaten a solid meal. Perhaps this trip would do him well – after all, George had heard that the air was cleaner, different…the per­fect rem­edy for [...]

Category : History

Sean Connery… Roger Moore…Pierce Brosnan…Daniel Craig Debate rages on as to who is indeed the best James Bond (I wisely refrain from stat­ing my choice pub­licly ALTHOUGH hav­ing watched each James Bond more than five times I do con­sider myself a bit of an author­ity on the sub­ject). The point is…James Bond – the fic­tional, [...]

Category : History

By: Susan Hall “Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your par­ents, it was loaned to you by your chil­dren. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors; we bor­row it from our Children.” Ancient Indian Proverb When I was presen­ted with the oppor­tun­ity to write for this blog, my [...]

Category : Environment

By Susan Hall It is 1:30AM, the night is cool, a gentle breeze wafts through my bed­room win­dow.   Suddenly I awake hys­ter­ic­ally from my sleep, arms flail­ing, feet thrash­ing about and my body covered in sweat.  Slowly, I try to gather my thoughts and come to my senses. The room looks like mine; everything seems [...]

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‘Gem of the Caribbean Sea, want noth­ing with we, I am a Bajan, I am a Bajan…’  (Rupee, 2011) The sweet sounds of Rupee blar­ing through my car radio, I can’t help but burst into an impromptu karaoke ses­sion as I drive along the South Coast of Barbados. Having trav­elled this route so many times [...]

Category : History

“Storytelling is a form of his­tory, of immor­tal­ity too. It goes from one gen­er­a­tion to another.” – Studs Terkel Suspense…drama…romance…intrigue…all of the ele­ments of an unfor­get­table and thrill­ing adven­ture. Stretching across cen­tur­ies and encom­passing peri­ods of con­flict, peace, cel­eb­ra­tion and mod­ern­iz­a­tion, this is the story of Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, recently lauded as Barbados’ [...]

Category : History

Having made a com­mit­ment to myself to exer­cise more than I did last year, this hot windy after­noon seemed like the per­fect oppor­tun­ity to begin the first step on my jour­ney of a thou­sand miles. Home is but a mere two by four patch of some of the finest coral beaches, undu­lat­ing cane fields, sur­roun­ded [...]

Category : Environment

Gifts (of-course!) In the Gift Shop, we focus our gift and souvenir selec­tion on items that are actu­ally made by people in Barbados and the Caribbean. Visit the shop to see some of the authen­tic items we have for sale such as art prints, cards, pot­tery, jew­elry, key chains, maps, and rum cakes.

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