Iguana Café, Portsmouth, Dominica
We’re in the middle of a coup here. Dominicans are rising up against the corruption of the prime minister who’s accused of breaching the Iranian oil embargo and selling it […]
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Secret Bay, Dominica
Whereas Papillote Wilderness Retreat is all homespun, rustic and very simple, Secret Bay veers dramatically in the opposite direction. A hideaway with only eight spacious villas, it clings to the […]
Papillote Wilderness Retreat, Dominica
Botswana has a clear “low volume, high value” approach to its tourism; they want to prevent over exposure and devaluing the quality of the experience. Dominica, in the West Indies, […]
The Cabernet, Road Town, BVIs
Our last stop is for a lunchtime swim and we anchor in a beautiful bay on Peter Island. There’s a smart resort here but they are gracious enough to let […]
Foxy’s Bar, Jost Van Dyke, BVIs
We’ve never managed to escape the winter gloom before. Too much work stopping play. We have friends who’ve done it nearly every year – well, certainly for the last ten […]
Marina Cay, British Virgin Islands
The circuit anticlockwise around the British Virgin Islands takes about a week, covering 85-90 nautical miles. The winds are almost always reliable easterlies giving you a bit of work as […]
Pirate’s Bight, Norman Island, BVIs
Often the first stop on a round-the-islands tour that is sailing in the BVIs, mooring in Pirate’s Bight on Norman Island epitomises all that is special about the experience. Claimed […]
Kanana and Shinde Camps Botswana
Botswana’s tourism model is simple. High value, low volume. In other words, if we charge enough, we restrict the number of people who can visit. The more the prices go […]
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