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Unnatural Habitat: Barbadians in NY in W...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in Beaches/Boardwalks, My Life in Barbados on 01 3rd, 2010 | 8 Comments

The sweet folks who exchanged homes with Greg and me over Christmas. While they wore swimsuits, we wore woolens in New York (it was wonderful for both...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in Featured Articles, My Life in Barbados on 12 26th, 2009 | 9 Comments

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...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in Bajans, Cultural Quirks, Travel to the island on 08 20th, 2009 | 5 Comments

Out of the window of our Caribbean Air flight from Barbados to Jamaica yesterday, I snapped the beautiful coastline of Barbados with my iPhone. This is far north along the east coast, the Atlantic Ocean side of the island. My generalizations about Bajans in Barbados continue … These are, of course,...

Waterfront Cafe’s Big Spender...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in My Life in Barbados, Restaurants/Food, Waterfront Cafe on 08 15th, 2009 | No Comments

The food at Barbados' Waterfront Cafe is one of the best-kept secrets in Barbados: Known for its wonderful jazz nights, it deserves as much recognition for its food. Waterfront has become one of my favorite places to lunch with friends. When you’re in Barbados, please eat at Waterfront Cafe....

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in Travel to the island on 08 11th, 2009 | No Comments

A friend e-mailed me this article yesterday from CNN. It’s worth reading, in case you missed it. Lots of fun and good suggestions. The author was Marnie Hunter. (CNN) — Stretching out on a crescent of powdery sand in Barbados doesn’t come cheap, but there are ways to trim costs and put the...

Barbados & Grand Cayman: Compare &#...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in Travel to the island on 08 5th, 2009 | 4 Comments

Fill 'er up: a rooster on the go in Grand Cayman I’ve been in Grand Cayman for four days and still haven’t run into anyone actually from here. The woman who gave me a pedicure is from northern England; the hairdresser, from Georgia (I admit to a fair amount of pampering); our hired driver,...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in History on 06 22nd, 2009 | 5 Comments

Horse-drawn trams transported Bajans from 1885 to 1925 Now here’s a Barbados blast-from-the-past that some version of ought to be revisited: horse-drawn trams. For 40 years – from 1885 until 1925 – people in Barbados climbed aboard a tram car pulled by a horse and run on tracks. They...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in Climate, Travel to the island on 05 7th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Barbados is the first and only country in the world, according to the “Barbados Perfect Weather” site, to guarantee perfect weather for your Barbados vacation. The Barbados Tourism Authority is paying visitors to the island $100 for every day you visit that the weather is less than 78 degrees and...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in My Life in Barbados, Places to Stay, St Lawrence Beach, St Lawrence Gap on 04 24th, 2009 | 6 Comments

You saw the progress (here, too) of my putting together Apartment #8 at St Lawrence Beach Condominiums. This week’s been the final sprint before the first guests arrive: the air-conditioning was put in, the flat-screen TV got cable hook-up, wireless Internet is working, and all appliances...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in Arts, Things to Do on 04 6th, 2009 | 3 Comments

Yesterday morning 9 a.m., my husband Greg and I, cameras in hand (ahem, well, I had my camera; Greg came along for fun) met photographer Ronnie Carrington at Pelican Village for a day-long and most pleasurable photographic excursion through the lesser-known parts of Barbados. Fifteen of us were on the van...

My Big Barbados Butt — Comments Al...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in Bajans, My Life in Barbados on 04 2nd, 2009 | 17 Comments

In the United States, the extreme of political correctness is bestowed upon those “putting on weight” (i.e., getting fat). And in the US, who isn’t? Have you been to a shopping mall there recently? Oy vey. We Americans talk about diets and weight-loss endlessly – but when a...

Barbados’ Gifts: Sun, Sea, and Hol...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in Arts on 03 28th, 2009 | 2 Comments

If I weren’t blessed to live in Barbados, I’d visit. I’d visit in late March when I could attend the Holders arts season. This year’s season began March 14, 2009; it runs until April 4. Holders, known as “the West Indies’ premier performing arts event of the year,”...

Cafe Sol & Earthworks Make Beautifu...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in Cafe Sol, Restaurants/Food, St Lawrence Gap on 03 24th, 2009 | 4 Comments

Some art is useful, sophisticated yet accessible, and available to anyone who passes by. The new outside wall at the (very yummy) Mexican restaurant Cafe Sol across the street from where I live in St Lawrence Gap in Barbados is an example of such art. I’ve been watching the progression of work on the...

Ricardo, Rock Star of St Lawrence...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in Bajans on 03 7th, 2009 | 3 Comments

Ricardo’s our own personal rock star here at St Lawrence Beach Condos. He’s young, attractive, easy-going, personable, capable, responsive, and liked by guests. He’s so well thought of by our guests, in fact, that he’s often mentioned in the reviews they write on TripAdvisor. ...

“Paper or Plastic?” When Vis...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in Environment on 03 4th, 2009 | 16 Comments

“Paper or plastic?” is not a question asked in Barbados. Here, it’s all plastic, all the time. Never have I seen people more fond of plastic bags than Bajans. I go to Big B grocery store and I watch as small items are slipped into small polythene bags and then put into larger polythene...

Posted by Jane Shattuck Hoyos in My Life in Barbados on 02 20th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Miami Beach Delano Hotel Pool If Miami Beach were a cat, it would be a sleek black panther wearing rings on 3 fingers and getting out of its red Ferrari … slowly, so that as many people as possible could see. If Barbados were a cat, it would be a pretty little tabby stretched out in the warm sun with a...