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Skeetes Bay Fishing Village
Explore this picturesque working fishing village tucked into an open bay on the Atlantic Ocean.
Fire Devastates Speightstown
It is sad and overwhelming to see the beautiful and historic buildings standing in piles of smouldering rubble after the fire devastates Speightstown.
First Barbados Boardwalk by The Sea – Update 2020 Then & Now
It’s been many years since the Barbados Boardwalk was erected on the South Coast in Hastings. See what has changed over the years.
Which Hotels Are Open In Barbados
It seems like a mute question to ask which hotels are open in Barbados since Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, has said Barbados hotels and resorts, villas and apartments never officially closed. Hotels were free to operate if they had guests. Of course, the Barbados Lockdown put a halt to most operations but long-term stays continued […]
Sargassum A Beautiful Menace
Here is the Instagram video of “Sargassum – A Beautiful Menace” on a Barbados beach. It is remarkably beautiful with its yellow-brown carpet in the ocean and on the shore but it is not a welcome sight for vacationers and locals who use the beach. View this post on Instagram Teams of workers have removed […]
Tourism Revival In Spite of Isolation & Quarantine
Barbados’ tourism revival is underway in spite of some visitors having to be quarantined or isolated. Air traffic is now flowing with 3 airlines flying to Barbados. Air Canada arrived on July 12 and will continue with two flight a week. Guests from Canada are asked to self-quarantine on the hotel property for 7 days […]
Barbados Welcome Stamp – Lifestyle Passport
Welcome Update Dec 2020 – Barbados is now listed as one of the worlds top COVID Safe destinations – See what they have to say at https://barbados.org/blog//covidsafevacations/ Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, invites you work in paradise and makes it easy for you to live and work here with the Barbados Welcome Stamp. Many retired people […]
COVID Travel Simplified
COVID Travel Brief – What & Why The original COVID-19 protocol documents were extensive and organized by 5 categories with 30 item. For a user point of view they were not easy to follow. This is why we created “COVID Travel Simplified”. It looks at Air Travel Protocols from the point of view of the […]
Barbados Air Travel Flights Protocols
For latest statistics on Reopening air travel and Covid testing see https://barbados.org/blog/barbados-tourism-revival/ Barbados Air Travel Flights Protocols, first published early in July, were revised on July 16th. Please go here For Latest Updates – Download Air Travel Protocols By Risk Category The summary below is much the same as the revised form. A major difference […]
Woolly Hewitt World Famous Artist
Woolly Hewitt, featured in the book Rogues in Paradise, credits his “world-famous artist” stature to Simon Cowell who holidays often in Barbados. Woolly was a fan of Simon and followed the show “The X Factor”. He created a portrait of Simon and gave it to him on the beach, in the presence of British reporters. […]
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