This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. For Friday, it’s a typical street scene in Roseau, the capital of Dominica – and a town of just 16,000 people. Known as Wozo in the local creole, Roseau is on the site of a former native village but it didn’t begin to grow until French…
This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. Dominica is one of the younger islands in the Caribbean – in fact, it is still quite active, in a volcanic sense. There are thousands of fumaroles – vents which allow volcanic gases to escape – across the island. There are also a number of these…
This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. We’ve mentioned that Dominica doesn’t get as many tourists as other Caribbean nations, partly because it has so few beaches, and is largely a volcanic island – quite steep and hilly. But what that means is that there ARE some lovely sights to be seen in…
This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. Dominica is an island country in the Caribbean; Dominican Republic is ALSO an Island country, in the Caribbean. So what’s the difference? Well, lots, actually! The Dominican Republic covers about half of the island of Hispaniola – it shares the island with Haiti – and is…
This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. Dominica is an island country in the Caribbean; also known as Dominique in French, or Wai’tu kubuli in the local Island Carib dialect. It’s one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles group of the West Indies (so – not all Caribbean islands are part of…
This week, our Travel pics series is C, for Cruise Ships. For Wednesday, we’re off to Road Town, on Tortola. It’s the capital of the British Virgin Islands, and home to about 12,000 people. It’s a centre of yacht chartering, as well as a destination for cruise ships like the MSC Musica, shown in today’s Travel Pic.…
This week, our Travel pics series has been B for Barbados. And to wrap us up, a scene that strikes me as quintessentially Barbados. This is Bayshore Beach, part of Carlisle Bay, in St Michaels Parish, Bridgetown, Barbados. The Azure sky, the Cerulean water, the White sandy beach .. its like everything in Barbados has an extra…
This week, our Travel pics series is B for Barbados. It’s Saturday – so maybe it is time for a beer! Bird’s Snackette and Bar, across the road from Bayshore Beach in St Michaels, is something of a chameleon. When we were there in 2015, it was – as you can see – bright red and white:…
This week, our Travel pics series is B for Barbados. All the images were taken in a quick visit in April 2015 – Barbados was a port on our Caribbean-to-Europe cruise. It was amusing, as we sailed toward Barbados … a number of times on the night before, and on the morning of, our arrival we…
This week, our Travel pics series is B for Barbados. Today’s image is of a beach shack on the shores of Carlisle Bay, in Bridgetown – the capital of Barbados. Our tour guide told us that this shack (and its previous incarnations) had been there since the 1600s, when Barbados was settled by Europeans – but…
