On Thursday nights at Anacaona Boutique Hotel, Meads Bay, Anguilla, you can enjoy an Anguillan buffet along with a performance of the Mayoumba Folkloric Theatre, a show of stories and songs portraying the history of the island. In this scene, the topic is the influence of rum! Anacaona recently announced the addition of a new show, “The Night of Dance,” featuring the Klassique Dance Academy, on Monday nights. For more information, check out Anacaona Boutique Hotel.
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Opening in June of 2010, the Anguilla Heritage Trail was a joint project supported by the Anguilla Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS), the Anguilla National Trust (ANT), the Anguilla Tourist Board (ATB), the Anguilla Hotel and Tourism Association (AHTA) and individual and corporate donors. The trail consists of ten stops around the island of historical significance, designated by a marker of an “H” surrounded by a trio of dolphins. This stop on the trail is Road Bay/Sandy Ground, and the marker reads: “The port below exported cotton, sugar, and salt in the 18th century. There was a large Amerindian village near the present beach.”
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Dr. Howard Resh explains how to grow so many great fresh vegetables and herbs in the regular sun and heat on Anguilla. All that sun is great when you are on the beach with a drink in your hand, but extreme temperatures make it difficult to maintain a crop. Cuisinart operates a hydroponic farm where they grow vegetables and herbs in water. Take a tour, operated Tuesday, Thursdays and Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. Read more about the farm here…
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Taken in front of the beach at The Viceroy, Meads Bay, Anguilla, November 2010, using the 77mm Fader ND Mark II filter. For more on the filters in my bag, read here…
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On a trip to Sint Maarten, the Dutch half of the island also occupied by the French St. Martin, good friends of ours shared with us their love of Guavaberry, a liquor traditional to the island. Guavaberry liquor is made from oak-aged rum, cane sugar, and wild Sint Maarten guavaberries found high in the hills on the island. Give it a whirl next time you’re on the island!
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Have you “been to Barbados?” I am reading “And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails ” by Wayne Curtis, a book suggested by Carlton Grooms of “Coastlines and Tan Lines.” I just came across a passage where the author recounts that Benjamin Franklin, the publisher of the “Pennsylvania Gazette,” printed up 228 different words and phrases as slang for being drunk. My favorite: “Been to Barbados.” The lovely rum punch above is the best on the island of Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, found at Hemmingway’s.
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The beginning of My Irie Time This was the very first image posted on My Irie Time when I began this blog in 2011. I first started sharing images online in 2007, when a friend convinced me to join Flickr and come along on monthly photowalks with our local Cream City photographers group. We found ourselves traveling to the Caribbean more often, and I found that it was something I really loved. When I won the Caribbean Travel + Life Photo contest in 2011, I posted more and more from our travels there, beginning on a Blogger site, and then with a dedicated website. It was my time away from…
