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Cuba – A different perspective
This post “Cuba – A different persecutive” was originally published on 22nd March 2022 and was updated on 12th July 2025 with details of my 2023 trip to Cuba, photographs from my 2024 trip to Cuba and with details of an upcoming BMHS study tour to Cuba from 24th November 2025 to 1st December 2025.…
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Flying TUI to Barbados
Flying TUI from the UK to Barbados is a great alternative to the likes of BA and Virgin. In 1997 my wife and I went out to Asia. We thought we were going for a two or three year stint. We stayed for nearly 20 years. In 2014 my wife was posted back to the…
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Rocket payload fairings wash up in Barbados post launch from Guiana Space Centre (CSG), French Guiana
Barbados has always been the destination for things that drift across the Atlantic such as: Thor Heyerdahl’s Ra Expeditions , Dr. Alain Bombard, The loss of The Kent – a letter in a bottle story, The story of John Heller, Survivors arriving in Barbados in May 1942 from ships sunk by German U-Boats and British…
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Cuba
Cuba is a country that is misrepresented and misunderstood by the rest of the world. I have a very different view from that portrayed in the press and internet. Cubans are very proud of their heritage and history. Their education and health care systems are much better than most countries. There are many Colectivos (shared…
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A sailing trip aboard the schooner Mary M Lewis from Bridgetown to Georgetown – Summer 1939.
This is the story of a sailing adventure by 3 boys: Joe Burton (aged 18), Jim Burton (aged 16) and “Ginger” Edwards (aged 16?) who sailed from Bridgetown to Georgetown and back on board the schooner Mary M Lewis in the summer of 1939. Joe Burton and Jim Burton were brothers. “Ginger” Edwards was the…
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Nine Mornings – A St. Vincent and The Grenadines Christmas Tradition
Christmas time in St. Vincent and the Grenadines was special in the 1970’s. Work was at a slow pace and in early December I began to hear about Nine Mornings. This tradition started almost a hundred years ago when the local Catholic Church held early morning services on the nine days before Christmas. On the…
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A day trip to Mustique – St. Vincent & The Grenadines
I worked for 2 years in St. Vincent with Cable & Wireless. These were some of the good times of my life. Work hard and play hard. C.O. Williams operated a quarry in Mespo Valley and did general road works. It was managed by a Bajan, Keith Weeks. Keith was not the type of manager that…
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The Seimstrand, St. Vincent & The Grenadines
MV The Seimstrand was a ferry that sailed between St. Vincent and Grenada during the late 1970’s. It was a lifeline of the Grenadines as it allowed a reliable and efficient transport of goods and people. In addition she did party cruises along the West Coast of St. Vincent or to Bequia and Mustique on…
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Hurricane Ivan 2004 – Emergency radio service in Grenada
Grenada is a volcanic island of 90,000 people that is a major producer of nutmeg, cloves and other spices. Its known as the “Spice Island”. On Tuesday 7th September 2004 Grenada was was struck by Hurricane Ivan (a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale). For nearly 12 hours the island was subjected to storm…
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Boiling Lake hike – Dominica
Waitukubli (pronounced Y 2K BULI) is the name that the Carib people called a rugged volcanic island long before 1493 when Christopher Columbus visited on his second voyage. Today we call this mountainous island Dominica. I have visited Dominica three times. The flight from Barbados is a short one, and the landing at Melville Hall…
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