British Virgin Islands
We just returned from a short stint in the British Virgin Islands -about a week on Tortola and a few days on Virgin Gorda.
The people are very friendly (and tolerant of the fact that tourists generally leave their brains at home) and the mood is refreshingly laid back. The surrounding scenery is dreamscape beautiful of course, so when you add that to the mix, it’s pretty much all you can ask for from a vacation.
The fact that they use the dollar instead of the pound was not lost on us as being a big plus, either.
So, with all that said, specifically, we can enthusiastically recommend:
- Long Bay Beach (and it’s absolutely idyllic younger brother, Smugglers Cove)
- A walk through The Baths on Virgin Gorda (watch yourself on the rope line)
- The BBQ Jerk Chicken at the Top Of The Baths restaurant
- Every single dish at the Sugar Mill Restaurant on Tortola
- The Trellis Bay Cyber Cafe (you can’t beat an honor bar with a stick)
- The power of rhum in its many incarnations
- Georgio’s Table Restaurant on Virgin Gorda (wine stored right!)
- The friendly and politically spirited Wendelling Taxi Service, found at the grocery store at Trellis Bay
- Painkillers made from scratch. They are melted-ice-cream-caliber nectar goodness.
- The funky rhythm bands that play to you when you’re sweating in line at San Juan airport
It was a week and a half of
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| SUN… |
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| CUTE AND DELICIOUS CHICKEN (cute pictured below) |
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If you know me, you can check out the photo-journalistic quality documentation of the trip. Just go to http://pelanne.com/<name here> - just replace <name here> with the lower-cased first name of the apartment-mate I knew after college who was famous for his intensive studying regimen.