Barbados for Manhattan Home Exchange (Wh... Would the quintessential New Yorker like Barbados? She'd rawther love it, of course! For a Yank-cum-Barbados girl suffering lack of Christmas spirit, it seemed like a great idea: Exchange our apartment in Barbados with another couple’s apartment in Manhattan. The switch took place on Christmas...

Santa Visits Barbados!... Today begins as any normal Saturday morning begins for Greg and me: we get up early and head up to the Brighton Farmers Market. Once we arrive at the market, like we always do, we start our shopping with a cuppa joe.  Plenty of milk in mine, please… Then we buy some fresh eggs … Oh, yes,...

Welcome to My Sun Room in Barbados... Our new Barbados sun room was a project a bit quirky in the execution but sublime in its completion. First, some background: Greg and I live in the St Lawrence Beach Condominiums where all 17 condos face the stunning blue Caribbean Sea. Each has a private outdoor patio overlooking the sea. Most are rented...

Pining for Christmas Trees in Barbados... A Caribbean Christmas When I was a kid growing up in Colorado, my father and brothers would go into the mountains and cut down a charmingly misshapen pine tree, tie it with rope to the top of the family station wagon, and haul it home.  In snowy, mountainous Colorado it makes sense to have a fresh pine...

Getting Real on Why Travelers Visit Barb... This is where I'm sitting as I write this post. Nice political stability we're having, huh? A few months ago I traveled from Barbados to Jamaica to attend a conference on the marketing of the Caribbean islands to tourists. One of the presenters was a Caribbean marketing expert who listed the top...

Passing the Pawpaw Test at the Delish Hi... The pawpaw/papaya test. (This photo is from a wonderful site called Happy Earth; click on photo to go there.) Yesterday, I loaded a dinner-sized plate with fresh fruit at the Barbados Hilton breakfast buffet. A gentleman behind me examined the large bowl of brilliant orange chunks of fruit in the buffet,...

Who Stole the Jill Walker Prints Off My ... This is a story about Jill Walker’s beautiful artwork disappearing from and then reappearing in my life. A thief with good taste: One of two Jill Walker framed prints that were taken from my Barbados rental apartment. The Heist Renting out the pretty apartment Greg and I own to folks who travel to...