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Caribbeanvillas swings into October by announcing the addition of 57 new villas to its Barbados site, including many directly on the beach! Check out our website and see these exciting homes away from home.
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Destination St. Barths
This season Caribbeanvillas is happy to offer you a new destination, St. Barths, and 123 of the sensational villas on this beautiful island. Named St. Barthelemy by Christopher Columbus, and once governed by Sweden, the island everyone calls St. Barts or St. Barths is unabashedly French and very chic. It lies 15 miles southeast of St. Martin and is part of the French overseas departement of Guadeloupe. The island’s capital is Gustavia, its sheltered natural harbour often filled with sailing craft and luxury yachts, its streets of northern-European style homes overlooked by the ruins of forts that once defended this tiny island.
This 8 ½ square mile island is dotted with luxury resorts, private villas and beautiful beaches. Its varied shoreline of pristine coves and idyllic beaches includes Anse du Gouverneur, accessible only on foot and considered one of the finest in the West Indies, and Saint-Jean, the island’s most rocky promontory.
French is the official language on St. Barth, and the euro its official currency, but English is widely spoken and prices are often quoted in US dollars. You don’t have to pay duty on St. Barth – everything is out-of-bond – so it’s a good place to buy liquor and French perfumes, at some of the lowest prices in the Caribbean. Perfume, for example, is cheaper on St. Barth than it is in France itself. St. Barth is the only completely free-trading port in the world, with the exception of St. Martin. You’ll find good buys in sportswear, crystal, porcelain, watches, and other luxuries.
So for luxury with minimum hassle, come to St. Barth. It’s sophistication in the tropics, chic, rich, and so very Parisian!
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St. Kitts SALE Property
 Capturing the vibrant spirit of Caribbean Architecture, Calypso Bay Resorts celebrates the flavour and rhythms of Caribbean living in colour and form of a tropical community.
Own your own piece of paradise and receive citizenship in St. Kitts.
Click Here to find out more information about Calypso Bay
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Recipe of the month from the islands:
Sweet Potato Pineapple Chutney
2 medium sweet potatoes
½ medium fresh pineapple
¼ tsp allspice
2 tbsp malt vinegar
3 tbsp cornstarch
¼ cup raisins
½ tsp freshly grated ginger
1 pinch salt
½ cup pineapple juice
Method: Wash and peel the sweet potatoes and cut into cubes about ½ inch square. Place in a saucepan, cover with water and cook until tender, but firm, being careful not to overcook. Drain and set aside.
Peel the pineapple and cut into similar size cubes as the potato. Place in a saucepan with the juice and sweat over a low heat until the pineapple is transparent.
Add all other ingredients, except the potatoes and cornstarch, and allow to simmer for five minutes. Add the potatoes, mix in well, and slowly bind with the cornstarch. Remove from heat, allow to cool, and serve as a condiment.
Good with red meat and all curry dishes.
Barbadian Delicacies:
The gastronomic delights are endless in Barbados. A trip to the island is incomplete without a taste of flying fish, a national symbol of the country, or many of the other Bajan delicacies which can be found on menus at almost any restaurant.
Flying fish is the national dish in Barbados, and accounts for 60 percent of the weight of all fish landed on the island. These fish travel in shoals, jumping in and out of water like dolphins. As they move through the air, their long extended fin opens up as wings, hence the flying motion which gives the fish its name. Flying fish have been closely associated with Barbados’ national character. Not only is Barbados called the “land of the flying fish,” but these fish frequently appear on commercial motifs. And of course, their national dish is none other than flying fish and cou-cou.
Cou-cou – made from corn meal and okra, cou-cou is usually served with fish or stews.
Pudding and Souse – The pudding is made from the intestines of a pig, which are stuffed with highly seasoned sweet potato. The souse is boiled pig’s head or feet served with a cold pickle of onion, cucumbers, limes, parsley and hot and sweet peppers.
Peas and Rice/Jug-Jug – Peas and rice is also popular, and jug-jug – a dish made principally of green or dried peas and guinea corn – is served at Christmas.
The tropical soil of Barbados yields an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables. Fruits include mangoes, paw-paws (papayas), bananas, guavas, avocado pears, and coconuts along with the more exotic soursops and Barbados cherries. Freshly picked vegetables can include breadfruit, yams, white eddoes, christophenes, eggplant, okra, pumpkin, plantains, and squash. Most of the more familiar salad vegetables also grow here.
Drinks - Indigenous drinks include mauby, a bitter-sweet beverage boiled from a particular tree bark; rum distilled from sugar cane; falernum, partially distilled cane syrup; sorrel, brewed from leaves like tea; and ginger beer. Juices are also made from cherries, golden apples, soursop, pawpaw and guava
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October ArticleGolfing in the Caribbean
For you golfers in the crowd, Sandy Lane in Barbados has opened its new golf course. The Country Club course is set in the old Molyneaux Sugar Plantation and also utilizes the top nine holes of the former Sandy Lane course, the bottom nine being retained for hotel and members use. Its appeal and character will be the quality of its greens and fairways, beautifully manicured and landscaped through the magnificent St. James countryside. The course is a Pay-as-you-Play concept with a splendid huge clubhouse overlooking both the 9th and 18th greens, with panoramic views down to the West Coast. Everything about the Country Club course is of high quality and visitors will not be disappointed by either the quality of the course or the high level of service from the staff. In terms of difficulty, the course has been designed for enjoyment and while it can be set up to be a formidable challenge to most players, the average golfer will enjoy its ambience and relish the opportunity to make a few birdies.
In St. Kitts, the Royal St. Kitts Golf Course has had $8,000,000 invested into making this course one of, if not the best, golf course in the Caribbean. Designed by five-time Champion Peter Thompson, this 18-hole course stretches across the peninsula near Frigate Bay. Beautiful vistas of mountains and the ocean provide an enjoyable golf game, although the many well-designed water hazards and the perpetually blowing cool trade winds make the game fairly challenging. Don’t be surprised to see a monkey take off with your golf ball if you hit it into the trees! Watch for the re-opening date, coming up soon.
And in neighbouring Nevis, the Four Seasons Golf Course, at Pinney’s Beach, has one of the most challenging and visually dramatic golf courses in the world. Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., (who called it “the most scenic golf course I’ve ever designed”). This 18-hole championship golf course wraps around the resort and offers panoramic ocean and mountain views at every turn. From the first tee (which begins just steps from one of the most accessorized Sports Pavilions in the Caribbean) through the 660-yard, par-5, to the 18h green at the ocean’s edge, the course is, in the words of one avid golfer, “reason enough to go to Nevis.”
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