Antigua: Travel lessons learned
Coming so soon after our Florida trip, I didn’t think there’d be too many travel lessons to learn from my trip to Antigua. Foolish, foolish. There’s *always* something to learn when travelling with my daughter – I’m…
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The sweet life: chocolate in St Lucia
“We call these jungle M&Ms,” offered my guide Cuthbert. “Try one.” They looked more like fat white grubs clustered inside the cacao pod; the botanic term mucilage didn’t make them sound any more appealing. contains affiliate links*…
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MummyTravels’ guide to St Lucia with kids
It’s easy to dismiss the Caribbean as simply that picture postcard cliché of palm-fringed white sand beaches (not that there’s anything wrong with those). But having visited a few islands, that couldn’t be further from the truth,…
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Sweet Caribbean: St Lucia chocolate tour
How can you make chocolate even better? Eat it in the Caribbean. With wine… I’ve blogged a bit already about our trip to St Lucia earlier this year – but along with volcanoes, beaches and zipwiring through the…
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Fond Doux Holiday plantation and Tet Paul nature trail
At the top of the winding steps, our guide tells us we’ve reached Heaven. Yes, I’ve just climbed the stairway to Heaven… with a toddler on my back. And cliche though it might be, I can’t help…
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The drive-in volcano – Soufriere sulphur springs, St Lucia
In my head, the thought of a drive-in volcano conjures up speeding round the edge of some kind of B-movie crater, spewing lava. Presumably courtesy of some sort of mental mix-up between drive-in cinema and your typical erupting cone….
