Man vs Nature: Nature’s Winning Ba... Where’s the Love? Erosion in Barbados on Valentine’s Weekend Instead of kanoodling, some Barbadians spent Valentine’s Day weekend battling ten-foot waves crashing against the shoreline of our small island. The normally calm Caribbean Sea bashed the shoreline of the usually idyllic Mullins...

Why Barbados is Called “Little Eng... Barbados was settled by the British in the early-1600s; it achieved independence in the mid-1960s. The island was never governed by another country and remains, in many ways, quite British. In what ways? I’m glad you asked. Greg and me (right) with our British friends Annie and David in West Sussex...

The Alcoholic Monkey... A friend sent this link, a 3-minute video made by the BBC about the Vervet monkeys in the Caribbean that have a taste for alcohol.  This was filmed in St Kitts.  Our monkeys in Barbados are green monkeys and I have never heard of them having a taste for alcohol or stealing drinks the way we see on this...

Hot Monkey Luv in Barbados... A monkey I met last week in Sandy Lane. Happy to pose for me, but no more; I just don't have the charisma my friend Sharon has. Barbadians see a monkey and roll their eyes; they know their furry brethren can be a nuisance. A Yank like me sees a monkey scurrying around so adorably and thinks it’s...

Barbados & The Yacht: Whatever Floa... Darn! How could I have missed a 118-meter-long yacht that looked like it didn’t so much sail into Barbados as landed in our port from a distant planet? I read about the Philippe Starck yacht that’s been docked here in Barbados this week on Barbados artist Corrie Scott’s blog … she saw...