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Travel: Caribbean UK £7.99 Footprint Handbook 2nd edition USA $12.99 ISBN 978 1 910120 55 2 Barbados footprinttravelguides.com SARAH CAMERON Planning your trip...... 2

Bridgetown...... 30 Central Bridgetown...... 31 Garrison Historic Area...... 36 Around Bridgetown...... 39 West coast...... 42 Bridgetown to Holetown...... 43 Holetown...... 45 East of Holetown...... 48 Speightstown...... 51 North coast...... 53 Along the north coast...... 54 Inland from the north coast...... 55 East coast ...... 59 Along the east coast...... 60 South coast...... 64 Beaches to the east of Six Cross Roads ..65 The southeast coast ...... 68 Listings ...... 71

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Index ...... 109 Footprint Handbook Barbados SARAH CAMERON Barbados Tourism and Barbados go together like rum and coke or flying fish and chips. You can pay thousands of dollars to be truly cosseted along with music moguls and supermodels, or you can cater for yourself and go shopping with Bajans. The west coast is the place to be seen, commonly referred to as the Platinum Coast.

The south is for beach life, night life, fun and games, the package holiday end of the market with a cheerful, relaxed atmosphere and the best sand. The east is wild and untamed, a world apart, where the Atlantic crashes into cliffs, eroding the coastline and creating beaches of a rare beauty. Head to the hills inland to explore relics of colonial days such as plantation houses, signal towers, tropical gardens, museums and rum distilleries.

Of all the islands in the eastern Caribbean, Barbados is unique in that it remained British throughout its colonial history, without being passed from one European master to another. The island is divided into 11 parishes named after 10 saints, Christ Church being the 11th. Many parish churches are impressive buildings.

Towns have the charming English seaside resort names of Hastings, Brighton or Dover and it was often referred to as Little England, not always as a compliment. Since independence in 1966 the country has moved closer in cultural terms to North America while also pursuing its African roots. Drum music, banned by colonial masters to prevent slave rebellions, and ‘tuk’ bands are an essential part of carnival processions. Calypso, soca and pan music are a centre piece of Crop Over, the boisterous festival celebrating the end of the sugar harvest. However, some habits die hard. You can still go to a polo match and be offered tea and cucumber sandwiches, or watch Sunday cricket on the village green. A Test Match at the Kensington Oval, though, is a sight to behold – an example of how an English sport has been turned into pure Afro-Caribbean pageantry. Sarah Cameron Animal Flower Archer's Cave North Pt Bay

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Long Pond Friday night in Oistins is the island’s biggest Belleplaine Speightstown party. Join the locals as they gather at Benab Barclays the bustling seaside fish market with live Mullins Park Barbados Bay Turners Hall Chalky Woods Mount 3 entertainment, street vendors, crafts and Cattlewash Gibbs Sion Hill traditional food. Jostle with the crowds Bay Mose Bottom Bathsheba Springvale Eco- 5 and dance the night away with some Heritage Museum Tent Bay Three Alleynes Bay Boys Rock Flower 3 Horse St barbecued flying fish in one hand and a Endeavour Congor Mt Hillaby Forest Hill Andromeda Martin’s 3A Cotton Gardens Rocks Tower Bay Folkestone Welchman Hunte’s potent rum punch in the other. Page 68. St James Hall Gully 2 Newcastle Underwater Park Parish Church Gardens Bath & Marine Reserve Sir Frank Hutson Welchman Conset Portvale Sugar Machinery Bay Sugar Museum Hall Harrison’s St John’s Factory Cave Codrington Holetown College Parris Hill 3B Coach Bell Pt Sunset Crest Hill 2 Four East Point 3 Orchid Cross Lighthouse Ragged Pt Holders World Sandy Roads Lane Bay Stewart Hill Marley Thorpes Belair Vale 4 Paynes Bay Drax Hall 1 Jackson Newbury Plantation Fitts Village Gun Hill 6 Signal Station Cottage Vale Bottom Bay

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BACKGROUND The island Barbados is 21 miles long and 14 miles wide, lying east of the main chain of When the Leeward and Windward islands. Most of the island is covered by a cap of coral limestone, up to 600,000 years old. Several steep inland cliffs or ridges run parallel to the coast. These are the remains of old shorelines, which to go formed as the island gradually emerged from the sea. There are no rivers in this part of the island, although there are steep-sided gullies down which water runs in wet weather. Rainwater runs through caves in the limestone, one of which, Harrison’s Cave, has been developed as a tourist attraction. The island’s water supply is pumped up from the limestone. In the Scotland District in the northeast, the coral limestone has been eroded and older, softer rocks are exposed. There are rivers here, which have cut deep, steep-sided valleys.

At night, you can really hit the town, with Harbour Lights beach party on Mondays, Fisherman’s Pub when there is a steel band, Oistins Fish Fry on Fridays with calypso, soca and live music, and a club at weekends. If you’re a real night owl and still have energy for more, Baxters Road rumshops are open all night every night and the first bus home starts at 0500. If you have the luxury of two weeks on Barbados why not move around a bit? Spend a few days on the west coast first, to wind down and enjoy the beach. Take a boat trip, go snorkelling with the turtles or dive one of the many wrecks from the colonial era littering the seabed. Then, when the jet lag is behind you, move to an apartment on the south coast for the nightlife around St Lawrence Gap. Finally, stay in a guesthouse on the east coast for a different view of paradise, go walking, beachcombing or take a good book and find a hammock.

10 ● Planning your trip Route planner When to go

When to go … and when not to Any time of year is holiday time in Barbados but some months are better than others, depending on what you want to do. The climate is tropical, but rarely excessively hot because of the trade winds. Temperatures vary between 21°C and 35°C, the coolest and driest time being December-May, and a wet and hotter season June-November. Rain is usually heavy when it comes but Barbados has rarely been hit by hurricanes. If you want to join in a carnival atmosphere then time your visit for Crop Over in July-August, but book flights, accommodation and car hire in plenty of time as everything is very busy. Bajans return home from all over the world for Crop Over and the partying goes on for five weeks. Other musical events worth aiming for are the Holders Season in March and the Celtic Festival in May with lots of music, dance and sports. Cricket lovers should aim to take in a Test Match or a regional competition to see top international players at the Kensington Oval, but there are cricket festivals at other times of the year and of course matches every Sunday in villages around the island. Even if you know nothing about cricket a match at the Oval is worth seeing for the audience. The stands throb to the beat of drums and whistles, calypso and comedy. This is more than just the national sport, it’s almost a religion (see box, page 18).

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Planning your trip When to go ● 11 Bridgetown

Bridgetown The capital, Bridgetown, on the southwest corner of the island is small but busy and full of life. The southern part of the bay is beach, with water sports and nightlife on offer, popular with a young crowd. There are no really large buildings except Tom Adams Financial Centre, which houses the central bank and the Frank Collymore Concert Hall. Swan Street is now a lively pedestrian street where Barbadians do their shopping and street music is sometimes performed. On Broad Street, previously called Cheapside, Exchange Street and New England Street, you will find a whole range of sophisticated shops catering for tourists, with large shopping malls, duty-free shops and department stores. More developments are planned along by the Careenage where old warehouses have been converted for other uses and restaurants overlook boats plying their trade on the inlet. The suburbs sprawl along the south and west coasts, and quite a long way inland. Many of the suburban areas are very pleasant, full of flowering trees and 19th-century coral stone gingerbread villas. There are two interesting areas, downtown Bridgetown with National Heroes Square on the north side of the Careenage and the historic area at Garrison. In 2011, the old town, its port and the Garrison were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Central Bridgetown Bridgetown the island’s business centre, with banks, shops, restaurants and cultural events National Heroes Square National Heroes Square, a small, triangular ‘square’, is the hub of central Bridgetown. It was called Trafalgar Square until 1999 and there is a statue there of Lord Nelson, sculpted by Sir Richard Westmacott and predating its London equivalent by 30 years. Admiral Nelson visited Barbados with his fleet in 1805, a few months before his death, and the square was named in 1806, with the statue being erected in 1813. The name has recently been the subject of some Essential Bridgetown controversy as it was thought to link Barbados too closely with its colonial Finding your feet past. After more than 30 years of The Adams Barrow Cummins (ABC) independence, the Little England jibes Highway skirts around the city from were a trifle past their sell by date. the airport in the southeast to the Nelson was turned through 180° so that west coast. Several roundabouts he no longer looked down Broad Street, along the highway give access the main shopping area, and there was into Bridgetown. There is also a talk of him being moved, but no suitable road along the south coast, which home was found. The square now enters the city through the Garrison celebrates ten official national heroes, Historical Area and a road running including Sir Grantley Adams. There is down the west coast which comes a memorial to the Barbadian war dead into the capital as the Spring and the fountain commemorates the Gardens Highway. Buses and route piping of water to Bridgetown in 1861. taxis run frequently in to and out of To the north are the neo-Gothic town along all these roads. Parliament Buildings. The West Building was built in 1871 and the East Getting around Building was finished in 1874. They are The centre of Bridgetown is easily imposing grey buildings with a red roof toured on foot, while buses, route and green shutters. The clock tower taxis and taxis are available for on the west wing dates from 1886, the reaching points a bit further afield. original having been demolished, and now houses public offices. The East Tip... Building, housing the Senate and the House of Assembly, has stained-glass When travelling along the ABC windows depicting British kings and Highway, keep an eye out for the queens from James I to Queen Victoria sculptures on two roundabouts, and even includes Oliver Cromwell. as these portray two elements You can walk between the buildings of considerable national pride in (providing you are correctly dressed). Barbados: freedom from slavery and cricket prowess (see box, page 41).

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44 ● Barbados West coast Animal Archer's Flower Cave North Pt Where to stay Barbados Bay unpack and pack your suitcase for you Angler Apartments 1 Stroud Pt The Spout and a butler caters to your every need. River Bay Atlantis 11 Greenidge Beach House Beach attendants make sure there Spring Little Bay Cleverdale 15 isn’t a grain of sand on your towel 1C Garden Pie Cuckold Point Calypso Rentals 1 Corner and even polish your sunglasses for St Lucy St Clements Paul's Point Chateau Blanc Maycock’s Parish Church you. The old aficionados decamped to Bay Mount Gay Apartments on Sea 15 Rum Distillery Gay's Cove other hotels, while a number of travel Nessfield Pico Teneriffe Cobblers Cove 4 Fustic Alexandra Boscobelle Coral Reef Club 5 journalists were banned for what they Half Moon Grenade Hall Coral Sands 15 said about the place, but it appealed 1B The Choyce Fort Forest & Signal St NicholasAbbey/ Crane Beach 6 Station & Cherry Tree Hill A to a different clientele: the rich, the 1 Barbados t The House 1 Wildlife l Little a famous, the celebrities. Rack rates start Rose Hill Reserve Morgan Green Pond Little Good Harbour 16 Good Harbour Farley Hill Lewis Sugar n t Lone Star Motel 5 from US$1150 a night. Golf has always Six Men's Port St National Park Mill i Bay Charles c Maxwell Beach O been a big thing at Sandy Lane, and Long Pond Belleplaine c Apartments 3 Speightstown e it runs three golf courses with its own 4 a Mike’s HolidayApartments/ n desalination plant for watering the Benab Guesthouse 12 Barclays Mullins Park The Nook Apartments 15 greens and fairways and keeping the Bay Turners Hall Chalky Round House Inn 7 Woods Mount 3 five man-made lakes full. The Old Nine Cattlewash Sandy Lane 9 nine-hole course dates from 1961 and Gibbs Sion Hill Savannah Beach 10 Bay 7 Mose Bottom Bathsheba Sea-U 11 the two newer 18-hole courses have Springvale Eco- 11 Heritage Museum Tent Bay Three Silver Point 12 been designed by Tom Fazio: Country Alleynes Bay Boys Rock Flower Horse St Southern Palms 3 Endeavour Andromeda Club and Green Monkey, built on former Mt Hillaby Forest Hill Cotton Martin’s Congor Rocks 3A Gardens Bay Tamarind Cove 1 Folkestone 5 Welchman Hunte’s Tower sugar cane land and an old quarry. Look St James Hall Gully Gardens Newcastle Underwater Park Parish Church Bath Tropical Sunset 13 & Marine Reserve Sir Frank Hutson Welchman Conset out for the real green monkeys which Sugar Museum Villa Marie 2 Portvale Hall St John’s Bay Sugar Harrison’s live in the trees and gullies. If you can’t Cave Holetown Factory Coach Hill Parris Hill 3B Codrington Bell Pt afford to stay here, it is worth going to 13 Sunset Crest College 2 Four East Point the L’Acajou French restaurant or Bajan 3 Orchid Cross Lighthouse Ragged Pt 9 Holders World Blue for the Sunday brunch buffet just Sandy Roads Stewart Lane Bay Hill Marley to see the place (good food and not all Thorpes Belair Vale 1 4 Paynes Bay that expensive), but you have to book 1 Drax Hall Jackson Gun Hill Newbury Plantation Fitts Village Signal Station ahead to get past the gate. 2 Cottage Bottom Bay

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Barbados West coast ● 45 ON THE ROAD The Hag Among the folk legends of Barbados handed down through generations of slaves is one about evil spirits called ‘hags’, similar to witches. These were women, often those in authority such as planters’ wives, who were believed to shed their skin at night and turn into a ball of fire in their search for blood. If the skin was found and rubbed with pepper and salt, the hag would not be able to put it back on and would die. The last person in Barbados thought to have been a hag died in the 1920s.

To the west you can see Mount Hillaby, at 340 m the island’s highest point (see page 58 for walking from Farley Hill). The gardeners pride themselves on using only natural fertilizers and no herbicides, except on the orchids, where they use environmentally friendly products.

Springvale Eco-Heritage Museum Highway 2, St Andrew, T438 7011, Mon-Sat 1000-1500, Sun by appointment, café. Springvale is an 80-ha former sugar plantation and the manager’s house has been converted into a folk museum of Barbados with a presentation of historical rural Barbadian life. It is very low key and informal, and worth a detour if you are in the area. The owner, Newlands Greenidge, can trace his ancestry back to 1631 and a ship which came from Greenwich. He will explain the day-to-day items in the museum, showing how people used to live in colonial times, and will take you along a path outside pointing out the various plants and their uses. The café serves local juices and food according to what is in season.

Hunte’s Gardens T433 3333, www.huntesgardensbarbados.com, open daily, closed Jun, US$15. A short distance away along Highway 3A at Castle Grant is another treat for keen gardeners, Hunte’s Gardens, which can easily be combined with visits to Orchid World, Flower Forest and Andromeda Gardens. Genial host, horticulturist Anthony Hunte, has lovingly created this rainforest garden in a gully, with flowering plants growing in a variety of habitats, from sunny, open spaces to a dark sink hole. A pretty path wends its way through a series of little gardens tucked away in private areas with strategically placed benches where you can pause to admire the view and watch the birds and butterflies. At the end you are welcomed back to the veranda of the house for a rum punch or fruit juice and an entertaining chat with the owner. Plants can be purchased from the nursery. The Castle Grant Estate including the house and gardens was put up for sale in 2015 but remained open for business.

50 ● Barbados West coast Speightstown characterful town known for its original buildings and laid-back charm Speightstown, in the parish of St Peter, is the second largest town on the island, the major shopping destination and bus terminus in the north, but barely more than a village. It is a lively place during opening hours, but dead as a door nail the rest of the time. Pronounced Spikestown or Spikestong in broad dialect, it is named after William Speight, who once owned the land, a merchant and member of the Governor Hawley’s first House of Assembly. Richard Ligon, who wrote a history of the island, published in 1657, referred to it as Spykeses Bay. An important port in the early days, when it was known as Little Bristol, because of its trade with Bristol, England; it also traded heavily with Bridgetown, 1½ hours’ sailing time to the south for a schooner, and used to have four jetties. It also once had three forts, no longer in evidence: Orange Fort, Coconut Fort and Denmark Fort, while outside town were Dover Fort and Heywoods Battery. They didn’t see a lot of action but the town was once invaded by Oliver Cromwell’s forces when Barbados remained loyal to King Charles I. Colonel Alleyne led the Roundheads ashore in December 1651 only to be shot dead by Royalists. His forces captured the town, their only victory, and a peace treaty was later signed at Oistins.

Sights Speightstown has several interesting old buildings and many two-storey shops with Georgian balconies and overhanging galleries. Sadly many have been knocked down by passing lorries and a fire in 1941 destroyed almost everything near the bridge on the main road, Queen Street. On Queen Street, Arlington House is a 17th-century single house, ie a single room wide. It is believed to have been the prototype for the Charleston Single, common in Charleston, South Carolina, but is the last remaining example on Barbados. It tapers towards the back and the ground floor room was once believed to have been a chandlers, as the original owners, the Skinners, owned one of the jetties. There is a separate entrance to the first floor room and above that there is an attic with gabled windows. The house has been beautifully renovated and is a state of the art interactive museum i T422 4064, see Facebook, Mon-Fri 0900-1700, Sat 0900-1500, US$12.50, children 6-17 US$5, discounts for National Trust members, Barbadians and Caricom nationals, with tours and audio visual displays, including videos of interviews with members of the local community.

St Peter’s Parish Church First built of timber in 1629, there was a second building in 1665 and then St Peter's was rebuilt in 1837 in early Georgian style. However, a fire in 1980 damaged the original east window, pulpit and font. It was restored in 1983, using the original walls. On the other side of the road beside the sea is a blue and white stage with wooden bench seating for outdoor events. The jetty was built in 1998 and if you walk to the end you get a tremendous view along the coast from the Arawak cement plant in the north, Port St Charles marina, the town and beaches to the south, with lovely changing colours of turquoise, dark aquamarine and purple (depending on the lenses in your sunglasses). The Fisherman’s Pub,

Barbados West coast ● 51 $$$$ Lone Star Motel $$$$-$$$ Tropical Sunset On the beach next to restaurant of same (Formerly Sunswept Beach Hotel) name, by Royal Pavilion, T419 0599, Holetown, T432 2715, www. www.thelonestar.com. tropicalsunsetbarbados.com. Refurbished under new ownership On the beach in town, great value in 2013. 6 huge rooms or suites with for money considering the location, beachfront terraces, comfortably particularly out of season, 23 furnished and decorated in cool colours, comfortable rooms, a/c, fan, TV, building was originally a garage built kitchenettes and balcony, small in 1940s by Romy Reid, who ran a pool with direct access to sea, very bus company and called himself the convenient, lots of restaurants close by, Lone Star of the west coast, then it shopping centre across the road, bank was a nightclub and then a house, alongside, right in the centre of things owned by Mrs Robertson, of the jam for Holetown Carnival. Friendly staff, company, who waterskied offshore relaxed with no frills. until her late 80s. Apartments $$$$ Sandy Lane T444 2000, www.sandylane.com. $$$$-$$$ Calypso Rentals The most luxurious, expensive and Paynes Bay, T422 6405, pretentious hotel on the island, with golf, www.calypso-rentals.com. tennis and a state-of-the-art spa offering Specializes in simple budget apartments everything from detox to pedicures. It and villas on the west coast. Some are is worth going to the L’Acajou French right on the beach, others are a 5-min restaurant or Bajan Blue for Sun brunch walk away from the water, whether they buffet, 1230-1500, just to see the place are pretty chattel houses or 6-bedroom (good food and not all that expensive), villas with staff. If you are travelling in a but you have to book ahead to get past group, it is possible to rent a property the gate, T444 2030. for as little as US$25 per person per day in summer. $$$$ Tamarind Cove Paynes Bay, T432 1332, www. $$$ Angler Apartments tamarindbarbados.com. Clarke’s Rd, Derricks, T432 0817, 104 large rooms and suites overlooking www.anglerapartments.com. pleasant gardens leading on to the The owners live on the premises and beach, where there are comfy sun priority is given to providing good loungers and watersports. Good for service. Well-equipped, clean and good couples or families. Indoor or outdoor budget option, 2-min walk to very dining, also Daphne’s restaurant next private beach, for which you are given a door for a gourmet romantic dinner. key. Chandra is exceptionally helpful and Very comfortable hotel on 3 floors, will prepare your breakfast if you want. spacious balconies, wheelchair access There are 5 friendly dogs. Lots of places to ground floor rooms, internet access, to eat nearby. water taxi to the sister properties in the Elegant Hotels group.

72 ● Barbados Listings $$$ Villa Marie Guesthouse served in gazebo alongside main house, Lashley Rd, Fitts Village, St James, 3-course set menu dinner 5 nights a T417 5799, www.barbados.org/villas/ week, US$30. villamarie. $$$$-$$$ Round House Inn 3 large rooms, 2 apartments with kitchen Bathsheba, T433 9678, (sleep 4), huge kitchen and dining room www.roundhousebarbados.com. shared by all, well equipped, huge Building dates from 1832 and showers, pleasant garden with loungers overlooks the sea from the hillside, 4 and mature trees, barbecue, 5 mins’ walk rooms in round part, all different, one from supermarket and beach, very quiet, considerably nicer than the others with up side road, lots of repeat guests, run roof terrace, others cramped but light by Peter (German). and bright, good restaurant, best place to eat in the evenings in the area, live East coast p59, map p44 music at weekends, run by Robert and $$$$ Atlantis Gail Manley. Tent Bay, Bathsheba, T433 9445, www.atlantishotelbarbados.com. South coast p64, map p44 Spectacular setting on the water’s edge, Most of the south coast is wall-to-wall waves crashing below, opened 1884 hotels from Hastings to Dover popular alongside railway, became a much-loved with package holidaymakers. It’s close to institution under the management of the airport, with plenty of watersports Enid Maxwell, who ran it from 1945-2001 and nightlife. and the place to go for Sun lunch. Now $$$$ Coral Sands having had a facelift and refurbishment Worthing Beach, T435 6617, there are 8 rooms in the main building www.coralsandsresort.com. and a couple of 2-bedroom suites Attractive hotel, 30 large oceanfront by the pool. Friendly, welcoming studios (and penthouse 3-bed service, comfortable. The tradition of apartment), all with fully equipped Wed and Sun Bajan lunch buffets has kitchenettes, large balconies and been continued. good bathrooms, clean, comfortable. $$$$ Sea-U 5-min walk to The Gap for nightlife, Bathsheba, T433 9450, 2-min walk to good supermarket. No www.seaubarbados.com. entertainment at this quiet hotel, small The nicest place to stay on this side pool overlooking the broad sandy of the island, run by Uschi (German), beach. Take care with the current in the colonial-style wooden house on top of sea; no lifeguard. cliffs, studio rooms with kitchenettes $$$$ Crane Beach opening on to veranda with sea view, 2 T423 6220, www.thecrane.com. studio apartments in separate cottage Fairly near the airport, but definitely can be rented separately or as a single a taxi ride away, spectacular clifftop unit lots of hammocks between palm setting, glass elevator down to pink sand trees on the lawns or on balcony, quiet, beach where there are sun loungers for peaceful, popular with active types who guests, and good pool, 2 floodlit tennis go to bed early. Ample buffet breakfast

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Culture Architecture 17th century The Jacobean Drax Hall and St Nicholas Abbey are two of the oldest domestic buildings in the English-speaking Americas. At this time many houses were constructed from ballast brought on ships from England together with local coral stone. Many were destroyed by storms and rebuilt on the same site. 18th century The oldest ecclesiastical building dates from 1784, only because it was the only one to survive hurricanes, floods and fires. St George Parish Church was destroyed by a hurricane in 1780 and rebuilt four years later. Sugar paid for the construction of grand Georgian colonial mansions, plantation houses built of coral stone and brick ballast in the tradition of the British Empire. The British Garrison, stationed in Barbados from 1780, built hospitals, barracks and houses in the Georgian and Palladian style with grand staircases, arcades and pediments. 19th century The Victorian style can still be seen today in churches, rebuilt after hurricanes and other natural disasters, and plantation houses. Verandas were decorated with carved wood tracery, window parapets were trimmed with filigree and sash and jalousie windows alternated on the façades in perfect proportion. Vila Nova (not open to the public) dates from this period, as do the parliament buildings in Bridgetown. Many chattel houses mimicked the grand houses with their ornate fretwork, carved bannisters and jalousie windows in perfect proportion. Steep gable roofs were designed to withstand heavy winds and rain, fretwork provided shade and a filter against the rain, while jalousie windows, with two sets of vertical hinges and one horizontal, provided maximum protection from the sun and the wind. 20th century The last plantation house to be built was Francia (now a school), in 1910, designed by a Frenchman using a blend of French and Bajan styles with Brazilian hardwoods. With the lessening of British political and cultural influence and the rise of the USA throughout the Caribbean, more recent architecture is American in style. Office blocks of glass and steel now dwarf the houses on the outskirts of Bridgetown and many of the hotels along the south coast are concrete blocks. Innovative design has been confined to private housing, many fine examples are on show in the National Trust’s Open House programme.

Literature Two Barbadian writers whose work has had great influence throughout the Caribbean are the novelist George Lamming and the poet Edward Kamau Brathwaite. Lamming’s first novel, In The Castle Of My Skin (1953), a part-

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autobiographical story of growing up in colonial Barbados, deals with one of the major concerns of anglophone writers: how to define one’s values within a system and ideology imposed by someone else. Lamming’s treatment of the Culture boy’s changing awareness in a time of change in the West Indies is both poetic and highly imaginative. His other books include Natives Of My Person, Season Of Adventure and The Pleasures Of Exile. Brathwaite is also sensitive to the colonial influence on black West Indian culture. Like Derek Walcott of St Lucia and others he is also keenly aware of the African traditions at the heart of that culture. The questions addressed by all these writers are: who is Caribbean man, and what are his faiths, his language, his ancestors? The experience of teaching in Ghana for some time helped to clarify Brathwaite’s response. African religions, motifs and songs mix with West Indian speech rhythms in a style which is often strident, frequently using very short verses. His collections include Islands, Masks and Rights Of Passage.

Music No visitor to Barbados can fail to notice the extent to which music pervades daily life. Whether it is reggae pounding out from a passing ZR van or gospel music being belted out in a church, Bajan rhythm is inescapable. The West Africans dragged to the island as slaves brought with them tastes in music and dance which are still evident today. This intensity of sound and beat has produced many musicians, several of which have become world famous, such as The Mighty Gabby, reggae vocalist and songwriter David Kirton, jazz saxophonist Arturo Tappin, Red Plastic Bag and John King, Krosfyah, Square One and Spice. And then there’s Rihanna… Calypso is the musical form for which Barbados is most famous, although it was originally developed in Trinidad. Calypsonians (or kaisonians, as the more historically minded call them) are the commentators, champions and sometime conscience of the people. This unique musical form, a mixture of African, French and, eventually, British, Spanish and even East Indian influences dates back to Trinidad’s first ‘shantwell’, Gros Jean, late in the 18th century. Since then it has evolved into a popular, potent force, with both men and women (also children, of late) battling for the Calypso Monarch’s crown during Crop Over, Barbados’ carnival, see page 14 and 15. The season’s calypso songs blast from radio stations and sound systems all over the islands and visitors should ask locals to interpret the sometimes witty and often scurrilous lyrics, for they are a fascinating introduction to the state of the nation. Currently, party soca tunes dominate although some of the commentary calypsonians are still heard on the radio. There is also a new breed of ‘Rapso’ artists, fusing calypso and rap music. Chutney, an Indian version of calypso, is also becoming increasingly popular and is also being fused with soca, to create ‘chutney soca’. Mac Fingall is a local calypso singer and entertainer, frequently found at cricket matches (his passion) or the races if he is not MC at Crop Over competitions. His great friend Red Plastic Bag, with whom he has recorded several albums, is also frequently heard around the island. The

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Accidents and emergencies of your insurance policy with you. Also get a dental check, know your Ambulance T511, Fire T311, Police T211. own blood group and if you suffer a Directory assistance T411. long-term condition such as diabetes or epilepsy, obtain a Medic Alert Customs and duty free bracelet/necklace (www.medicalert. You may take in to Barbados 2 litres of co.uk). If you wear glasses, take a copy spirits or wine duty free and 2 cartons of your prescription. of cigarettes. Fresh fruit and vegetables, plants, cuttings and seeds are restricted Vaccinations or prohibited, depending on where It is important to confirm your primary they’ve come from, to prevent the courses and boosters are up to date. It transmission of pests and disease. is also advisable to vaccinate against tetanus, typhoid and hepatitis A. Electricity Vaccines sometimes advised are hepatitis B, rabies and diphtheria. Yellow 110 volts/50 cycles (US standard). Some fever vaccination is not required unless houses and hotels also have 240-volt you are coming directly from an infected sockets for use with British equipment or country in Africa or South America. adaptors, but take your own, just in case. Although cholera vaccination is largely ineffective, immigration officers may ask Embassies and consulates for proof of such vaccination if coming For all Barbados embassies and from a country where an epidemic consulates abroad and for foreign has occurred. Check www.who.int embassies and consulates in Barbados, for updates. see http://embassy.goabroad.com. Health risks Health The most common affliction of travellers to any country is probably diarrhoea and Travel in Barbados poses no health risk the same is true of Barbados. Tap water to the average visitor provided sensible is good in most areas, but bottled water precautions are taken. It is important is widely available and recommended. to see your GP or travel clinic at least Diarrhoea may be caused by viruses, 6 weeks before departure for general bacteria (such as E-coli), protozoal (such advice on any travel risks and necessary as giardia), salmonella and cholera. It vaccinations. Try phoning a specialist may be accompanied by vomiting or travel clinic if your own doctor is by severe abdominal pain. Any kind unfamiliar with health conditions in the of diarrhoea responds well to the Caribbean. Check with your national replacement of water and salts. Sachets health service or health insurance on of rehydration salts can be bought in coverage in the islands and take a copy

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most pharmacies and can be dissolved be very expensive. Local private clinics in boiled water. If the symptoms persist, provide good treatment. The main Essentials A-Z consult a doctor. government hospital can cope with The major risks posed in the region are many types of treatment, but serious those caused by insect disease carriers cases will mean emergency evacuation, such as mosquitoes and sandflies. usually to the USA. Make sure you The key parasitic and viral diseases have adequate travel health insurance are dengue fever and chikungunya and accessible funds to cover the (also known as chik V). Dengue fever cost of any medical treatment abroad and chikungunya are particularly hard and repatriation. to protect against as the mosquitoes can bite throughout the day as well as Language night (unlike those that carry malaria). English is the official language although Chikungunya virus is relatively new there is a Bajan dialect spoken which in the Caribbean but there has been incorporates West African languages. an outbreak in Barbados. There is no Barbados uses British spelling of English. malaria. There are lots of mosquitoes at certain times of the year, so take insect Money repellent and avoid being bitten as much as possible. Sleep off the ground The currency is the Barbados dollar, and use a mosquito net and some kind B$, which is pegged at B$1.98=US$1. of insecticide. Remember that DEET There are notes for B$2, 5, 10, 20, 50 (Di-ethyltoluamide) is the gold standard. and 100 and coins for B$1, 25 cents, Apply the repellent every 4-6 hrs but 10 cents, 5 cents and 1 cent. Many more often if you are sweating heavily. tourist establishments quote prices in If a non-DEET product is used, check US dollars, which are widely accepted, who tested it. Validated products (tested although you will get any change in at the London School of Hygiene and B$. Banks will only change the US and Tropical Medicine) include Mosiguard, Canadian dollar, euro and sterling. Non-DEET Jungle formula and non-DEET Autan. If you want to use citronella Plastic/currency cards/Banks (ATMs) remember that it must be applied very Credit cards are widely used and ATMs frequently (ie hourly) to be effective. are found in supermarkets, shopping The climate is hot; the islands are centres and some fuel stations as well tropical and protection against the sun as banks. Credit and debit cards can be will be needed. Do not be deceived by used to withdraw cash, which will be cooling sea breezes. To reduce the risk B$. To find a MasterCard ATM, try www. of sunburn and skin cancer, make sure mastercard.co.uk/atm-locator.html. you pack high-factor sun cream, light- Inform your bank before you travel that coloured loose clothing and a hat. you are going to Barbados so they don’t put a stop on your card. Make sure you Insurance bring contact details from home of who to call if your card is lost or stolen. If you Private medical insurance is essential don’t want to carry lots of cash, prepaid as medical treatment in Barbados can currency cards allow you to preload

Practicalities Essentials A-Z ● 105 Index A C fishing 82 Flower Forest 49 accidents 104 calypso 95 Folkestone Marine Reserve 47 accommodation 21 Cattlewash 61 Folkestone Underwater price codes 21 Chamberlain Bridge 32 Park 47 Accra Beach 70 Charles Duncan O’Neal Bridge food 23 activities 16 33 Fort Charles 36 air travel 99 chattel houses 22 Foul Bay 67 airport information 100 chikungunya 105 Foursquare Rum Factory 68 airport taxes 100 climate 11 Andromeda Gardens 61 Cockspur Beach Club 39 G Animal Flower Cave 54 Codrington College 63 Garrison Historic Area 36 Arbib Nature & Heritage Coleridge Street 34 Gay’s Cove 54 Trail 52 Cove Bay 65 George Washington House 38 architecture 94 Crane Beach 66 Gold Cup day 37 ATMs 105 credit cards 105 golf 17, 83 cricket 16, 18, 81 Gospelfest 15 B Crop Over 14 Gospel Festival 13 Barbados Food and Wine and culture 94 Government House 34 Rum Festival 15 currency 105 Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary Barbados Horticultural currency cards 105 69 Society (BHS) Annual Flower customs 104 Grenade Hall Forest 57 Show 12 cycling 102 Grenade Signal Station 57 Barbados Museum 37 D Gun Hill Signal Station 40 Barbados Reggae Festival 13 Barbados Wildlife Reserve 57 dengue fever 105 H Barclays Park 60 diarrhoea 104 Hackleton’s Cliff 61 Bath 62 diving 17, 82 Half Moon Fort 52 Bathsheba 61 Dover Beach 69 Harrison’s Cave 49 Batts Rock Beach 43 Drax Hall 41 Harry Bayley Observatory 39 Bay Street 35 drink 26 health 104 Bottom Bay 65 duty free allowance 104 hiking 17, 84 Brandons Beach 39 history 89 E Bridgetown 30 hockey 84 accommodation 71 Easter Fish Festival 69 Hockey Festival 15 activites 81 Easter Rebellion 91 Holders Season 13 bars and clubs 78 electricity 104 Holetown 45 clubs 78 embassies and consulates 104 Holetown Festival 12 entertainment 80 emergency numbers 104 horse racing 18, 37, 84 restaurants 75 Enterprise 68 horse riding 84 hotels 21 shopping 80 F tourist information 71 price codes 21 Brighton Beach 39 Farley Hill House 58 Hunte’s Gardens 50 Festival of Creative Arts 15 festivals 12 Practicalities Essentials A-Z ● 109 FOOTPRINT Features Bim volumes 38 Open gardens 13 Bridgetown background 35 Patriotic titbits 93 Chattel houses 22 Polo 83 Cricket in the Caribbean 18 Rum cocktails 25 Crop Over 14 The Easter Rebellion 91 East coast railway line 62 The Hag 50 Horsing around 37 The island 10 Jewish settlement 56 The Monkey Jar 70 Karl ‘Broodie’ Broodhagen (1909- The pirate of good position 66 2002) 41 The rise of rugby 87 Monkeys and medicine 58 Turtles 47

I N Q Independence Arch 33 National Cannon Collection 37 Queen’s Park 33 Independence Day 15 national flower 93 Queen’s Park House 34 insurance 105 National Heroes 93 R K National Heroes Square 31 Nidhe Israel Synagogue 34 Ragged Point 63 Kamau, Edward 94 reggae 96 kitesurfing 20, 87 O restaurants 26 L Oistins 68 price codes 21 Oistins Fish Festival 13 route planner 9 Lamming, George 94 open gardens 13 rugby 87 language 105 opening hours 106 rum 25 literature 94 Orchid World 40 running 85 Little Bay 54 S Little Good Harbour 52 P safety 106 Long Bay 65 pan music 96 sailing 19, 85 Paradise Beach 43 M Sam Lord’s Castle 65 Paul’s Point 54 Sandy Beach 69 Main Guard 36 Paynes Bay 43 Sandy Lane Gold Cup 37 Mallalieu Motor Collection 39 people 97 Sandy Lane Hotel 43 maps 103 planning your trip 9 sea travel 100 Miami Beach 68 polo 18, 85 shopping 80 money 105 Port St Charles 52 Sir Frank Hutson Sugar Montefiore fountain 35 post 106 Machinery Museum 48 Morgan Lewis Sugar Mill 57 price codes 21 Six Men’s Bay 52 Mount Gay Rum Distillery 55 public holidays 106 Mullins Beach 52 Speightstown 51 music 95 Spout 54 Springvale Eco-Heritage Museum 50

110 ● Index squash 86 T trompe l’oeil mural 52 St Anne’s Fort 36 tuk 96 St George Parish Church 40 taxes 106 Turners Hall Woods 60 St James Church 46 taxi 103 turtles 47 St John’s Church 62 telephone 107 Tyrol Cot Heritage House 39 St Lucy 53 tennis 85, 86 St Michael’s Cathedral 33 Three Houses Park 62 V St Nicholas Abbey 55 time 107 vaccinations 104 St Patrick’s Cathedral 35 tipping 107 visas 107 tourist information 71, 107 St Peter’s Parish Church 51 W Sunbury Plantation House 67 transport surfing 20, 86 air 99 walking 103 bus 101 weather 11 car 102 Welchman Hall Gully 48 cycling 102 West Indies Rum Distillery 39 road 101 windsurfing 20, 87 sea 100 taxi 103

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