Try the Conch Knocker at Da Conch Shack, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands. For more on one of our favorite beach bars, read on… SaveSave
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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…
