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Our good friend Reggie Douglas (Remember him from my romantic hike to The Source?) just checked in to give us the heads up on an exciting new sporting event in his home island of Nevis that will have all of you active and competitive travelers itching to be in St. Kitts‘ sister island this September.
The event is called The Nevis Peak Eco Challenge, and like the grueling Volcano Half Marathon that our buddy Dave conquered over in Montserrat recently, this race involves a test of wills contested around a towering volcanic mount. Reggie’s words:
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Anyone out to experience some cheap paranormal thrills while visiting the Caribbean would do well to check out the region’s sprawling collection of plantation ruins. Thousands of these historic sites – each bearing their own legends, tragedies and odd occurrences – can be found up and down the island chain, and if you’re lucky enough to come across one on a gloomy, overcast day like the one pictured here, well, the spooky script just writes itself…
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Taking a morning stroll along the famed Avenue of the Palms at Nisbet Plantation in Nevis, voted the Caribbean’s no. 1 resort in the just-released 2011 Condé Nast Traveler Reader’s Choice Awards.
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I don’t know that too many people actually visit St. Kitts & Nevis expressly to check out the monkeys, but believe me, once you’re there, they are impossible to ignore. Whether taking a stroll across a golf course, frantically raiding a mango tree, as we witnessed at The Golden Rock Inn last year, or boozing it up with hilarious consequences, the Vervet Monkeys in this twin-island nation put on quite a show.
For visitors, the show is all in fun; an exotic attraction worthy of some serious post-vacation bragging around the watercolor back at the office.
For residents, especially local farmers, it’s quite the opposite.
Among the few regrets I have over my trip to Nevis last year was that I didn’t come home with a bottle of CSR, aka: Cane Spirit Rothschild Rum, from St. Kitts. I had actually never even heard of the stuff ’til we checked in at Nisbet Plantation, where a bottle of CSR was waiting for me, along with some Ting so I could make a Ting ‘n Sting, the property’s signature welcome drink.
The CSR, itself, was unspectacular to me. It’s a fresh and pure white rum, produced from cane harvested by hand, with a bit of a sweet finish.
It’s been one full year since my romantic adventure trip to Nevis and I still find myself captivated by this tiny and amazing jewel of an island. There’s just so much to see, taste and experience over its scant 36 square miles that even the shortest of stays here (I was only there four days) sticks with you long after you’re gone.
One of my favorite things about Nevis is its collection of charming and historic plantation inns. As some of you may recall, my wife and I stayed at Nisbet Plantation, which holds the distinction of being the only historic plantation inn in the entire Caribbean that’s located on the beach.
Traveling the Uncommon Caribbean way is always fun, sometimes sexy and quite often thrilling, but there can be a few drawbacks. One of the big ones: bites. The wayward angry shark or over-sauced harlot aside, I’m talking here about insect bites. Mosquitoes are the most notorious offenders, of course, but gnats, no-see-ums, sand flies, or anything else you want to call these miniature menaces from Hell, are WAY worse in my book. Red ants can be a problem too, as my wife was reminded on our trip to Nevis last summer.
It was our first full day on the island. A bright, shining sun lay overhead, its heat tempered lovingly by a gentle seabreeze.
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