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Monday, February 10. 2014

Our elegant accommodations on St. Lucia

We barely made it out of Yankeeland in a blizzard last week (thanks to our fine drive service with 4 WD Lexi limos), and barely made it home last night in another snowstorm (thanks, fine driver).


I will post some of my travelogue pics and fun info from the only Caribbean island and the only elite boutique hotel (35 rooms) there that Mrs. BD likes (no computers, no WiFi, no TV, no cell service, no pool, no lifeguards, no clocks, no A/C, no windows - all open to the tropical breeze - no phones, no salespeople, no elevators because all the totally-private and jungle-surrounded little villas are one-floor, the best diving and snorkeling in the New World - and you can leave all of your valuables on the beach - wallet, watch, cameras, etc all day without any concern, for hours) when I get organized. 


In fact, this pic is a mid-1700s French sugar cane plantation manager's house, now embedded in jungle a 45-minute jungle hike from one of the resort's two little private beaches. Thanks to the mountainous volcanic terrain (unlike most of the flat coral-based Lesser Antilles), St. Lucia has a rain forest habitat but it happily has mostly sunny days with occasional spitting light showers which you ignore.





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Hope you had a great time, lucky to get out !
#1 hal rubenstein on 2014-02-10 07:29 (Reply)
We went to St. Lucia on our honeymoon. Beautiful place! May I also recommend the island (country) of Dominica-- NOT the Dominican Republic, but a small British Commonwealth island between Martinique and Guadeloupe (i.e. two islands north of St. Lucia)?

It is too rocky to grow sugar cane back then, so the cloud forest jungle has been almost entirely preserved. It's also too rocky now for a big airport or a monster cruise ship dock, so the non-touristy culture has been almost entirely preserved too. And there's a boiling lake all the way at the top of the mountain, if you like a good hike through a totally unique environment. If you like bird watching, there are several species only found there. There's a small-but-pretty beach and reef, also good whale watching off shore. The people are very friendly-- mostly descendants of slaves who escaped from the French sugar plantations in Martinique and Guadeloupe by swimming or rafting, but there are actually some of the original Caribs still living there (only place they weren't exterminated). There isn't that angry vibe you feel in some of the other islands, even though they're among the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. I felt totally comfortable hanging out and watching the local team play cricket for four hours. Highly recommended.
#2 Janet on 2014-02-10 08:49 (Reply)
Only 4 hours? You left before it was over?
#2.1 Sam L. on 2014-02-10 10:57 (Reply)
I love St. Lucia also. I also recommend Antigua
#3 rbm411 on 2014-02-10 10:07 (Reply)
Yes, I left LONG before it was over. I was on my honeymoon, so I, um, had another sporting event to attend. >:)
#4 Janet on 2014-02-10 11:49 (Reply)
Having lived in the rain forest in West Africa the ramshackle architecture is familiar, though often in corrugated zinc metallic sheets, but the ectopic Cape May elaborations along the eaves of the roof surely are a 19th century elaboration.
#5 CTAzeff on 2014-02-10 21:45 (Reply)

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