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Overview
Beaches, boats,
banks and bikinis are Caribbean menu essentials. But the No 1
playground for the Americas also comprises movie-set beauty,
coconut-tree-clad mountains, verdant valleys of sugar cane and
bananas, and seashore galore.
Long desired by foreign powers, Caribbean islands come in basic
British, Dutch, Spanish, American, French, Danish and there is
even a Swedish town named Gustavia after His Swedish Majesty at
the time.
Among celebrities who came to stay, at least partime are: Sean
Connery, Princess Margaret, Errol Flynn, Sir John Templeton,
Arthur Hailey, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Hemingway and Sir Noel
Coward. The latter described his beloved Jamaica as "no place
like home."
Caribbean cities glow with glorious architecture in communities
established long before the automobile. Capitals such as Havana
and Santo Domingo are built to human scale, just right for walking
and talking tours.
In a more organized approach to Caribbean islands in the sun, we
offer first the largest tropical island in the western hemisphere,
Cuba; former 'veddy British' and now independent Jamaica; The
Bahamas, northerly neighbour of the Caribbean isles.
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