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Barbados Walks &
Holders Season Trip dates : Wednesday 5 – Saturday
16 March 2008 Trip Price : £ 2,990 per person
sharing in a double/twin room Activity Level : 8 walking days (1.5 –
3.5 hours daily), optional swimming and snorkelling most days. How to book Home
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Holders Season on Barbados, an annual extravaganza in the grounds of the 17C Holders Great House, has established a reputation as the premier arts event in the Caribbean and is often referred to as ‘the Glyndebourne of the West Indies’. During our 12 day visit to the island we attend three performances, including classical piano duets; a poetry evening with Simon Williams, “Love is all around”; and a Gala night with the acclaimed Broadway stars, The Three Mo’ Tenors. With its cricket matches and Anglican parish churches
Barbados still reflects its British colonial past, but this is also an
exuberant Caribbean island of calypso, rum and flying fish, with miles of
sugarcane fields, little villages characterised by wooden ‘chattel houses’
and a relaxed, warmly welcoming atmosphere that brings visitors back year
after year. We divide our stay between the sparsely
inhabited breezy Atlantic coast which offers scenic walking, and the west, or
Platinum, coast, with its pink coral sand beaches, where low key elegance is
the order of the day. Island-wide walks take us to Jacobean Great Houses, 18C
signal towers and several fine botanical gardens and we also swim with
turtles and attend a village cricket match and a polo game. |
