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You can drink great rum in many places all across Barbados.

It's a lot easier to get to Barbados these days. For UC readers, it's also a lot more affordable to stay here in style thanks to our friends at Cotton House 2.

For those who simply must always be first, there really is only one best place to ring in the New Year in the Caribbean. That place: Barbados.

Did you know that the grapefruit, that most singularly sunny breakfast treat so closely associated with Florida, actually originated in Barbados?

To help speed the thaw for those that might need it, here's a hot video postcard showcasing the sexy surfer girls of Barbados...

Carlisle Bay is a big beautiful bay where the uncommon traveler can find fresh lobster, great Trini cuisine, and awesome SCUBA diving.

Soup Bowl, one the Caribbean's top surfing spots, is nestled in the heart of Barbados' ever-churning Atlantic coast.

There are fine rums and there are bargain rums, though never the twain have ever met, in my experience, quite as perfectly as they do in Doorly's X.O.