No matter how much you calculate the options for the day to come, no matter how much you fish out from the murky waters of the Internet a grain of true knowledge about the geographical point you discovered, reality will show everything its place. John's, almost everything is in order, as much as possible in the Caribbean.ġ. Usually, in Caribbean cities, cruise superliners are photographed, towering over the city, like Moscow City over the Pashkov house. Some views of Saint Johns are worth a million dollars: Here the owner of this store died almost a year ago, but, apparently, such a business is not so interesting that someone would continue it: The store is still open, but the dwelling is already empty. This is what a typical retail facility from the times of Queen Victoria or King George looks like: on the first floor there is a “walking distance” (check out the ice counter on the left - there is one in every third cafe / shop), and on the second floor there is housing. This is where the father of the nation Sir Vere Cornwall Bird Sr.(he managed to hold on to power from 1960 to 1994, both under the British, and already during independence, and after himself for another 10 years to make his own son prime minister) crawls out of the cake: John the divineīut the construction of new houses, like that of Uncle Pumpkin, is constantly going on: It is all one-two-story, and much has been preserved here from the colonial era, which ended quite late for Antiga, in 1981.Ī couple of years ago, standing in front of the Columbus monument in Puerto Rico, I realized with great surprise that the word colonization derived from Cristóbal Colón, the Spanish spelling of the name of Christopher Columbus. Houses like Uncle Pumpkins are more or less evenly scattered throughout the island, condensing in the area of the city of St. Ordinary locals live in houses like Uncle Pumpkins: Near Moscow, I usually have to humiliate myself for a long time calling somewhere with a request to write a pass (for this summer, say, the security did not get used to me, and all summer I walked to the rented dacha from the checkpoint!) And you know what? I really like the cottage villages in the Caribbean, because the security at the checkpoint lets me, the white gentleman, inside without a sound. Resort real estate here is mainly independent villas and villas, but there are several (a few, not dozens) organized cottage settlements. If on a tropical island with palm trees and sand you do not have a desire to stay forever, you have no heart. Girls Prepare to Destroy Boy's Easter Cakes, Long Bay Beach
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The memo in the hotel for some reason scares tourists with the growth of violent crimes in Antiga: they ask you not to walk at night in unfamiliar areas, not to shine your wallets / cameras / watches / jewelry, to close windows and doors in cars (and on the move), but, at first glance, a passer-by in Russia is much more likely to run into trouble. In the off-season, the country has obvious problems with tourist flow. Of course, on the days of the cyclone, the Caribbean beach looks like a miserable parody of Serebryany Bor, but in the off-season it has some advantages: 1) the sun does not incinerate 2) a pleasant breeze and 24 °, unlike the usual ones that destroy all living things, 30 ° ( + humidity) 3) water is still 24 °.
But in other places, garbage is rather an unpleasant exception and accident. Where there are hotels near the beaches, they are perfectly clean.
There are no private beaches in Antiga but cafes, villas and hotels, it seems, can begin to build just beyond the line of maximum tide height. In this post I will try to dispel stereotypes and show that Antigua and Barbuda is a great destination for beach holiday. Those who have watched Indiana Jones and James Bond know that the real Caribbean looks like this: But I was forced to become a real guru of filming in bad weather. It was a difficult year: in all significant places where I got, and in, and in, and Macau, and here, in Antiga, I was pursued by cyclones. We alone bought tickets long ago, then flew for a long time on a beautiful British Airways liner, and here, hop, cyclone. Besides, it's stupidly cooler and gives me the image of a seasoned tourist.Īll like fools swim to Antiga for 1 day with a cruise ship and manage to see everything in a short tropical daylight (from 6 am to 6 pm) and snapping beautiful sunny photos. I will continue to do the same, because it is written shorter, pronounced more conveniently, and, consequently, it reduces the keyboard mileage and aging of the speech apparatus.