Best beaches: Bathsheba, Barbados

The foamy Atlantic breakers that smash onto this pretty sandy beach, studded with enormous boulders, are said to resemble the bath of Bathsheba, wife of King David. They also make for great surfing and the area known as the Soup Bowl attracts surfers from all over the world.The Telegraph

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In Barbados, The House on Rihanna Drive

Caribjournal.com This one-way street on the outskirts of Bridgetown has two lines of colourful houses just across The Mighty Grynner Highway from the sea. But it’s the green-and-yellow one three quarters of the way down the road that brings the pilgrims.

Jamaica 'ties knot' with Bajans

Caribbean360.com : "Air Jamaica has tied 'the knot' with the Barbados Tourism Authority on a marketing deal for newly weds. Barbados, a veteran in traditional tropical tourism for over six decades, markets to certain niche markets as well.".........................................................Air Jamaica, the Barbados-designated flag carrier from New York - affectionately known as "The Lovebird" - has pledged its troth to Barbados' new weddings and honeymoons website.

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I hate to look at the Barbados tourists site that give the history of Barbados.The ones that talk of Columbus discovering these islands and the other foolish tales that the Bob Marley and Burning Spear called 'mis-education'.I agree with them as a matter of fact Burning Spear referred to Christopher Columbus as a 'damn blasted liar'.Thank god for Rastafari. One of the funniest stories is the one of the bearded fig tree and the name Los Barbados which was supposed to mean 'the bearded one'. In the words of Gary Cole from the book reflections; The Colonization of Barbados is one of the darkest events and evil stories of modern history.Four centuries ago,Spanish and Portuguese slavers started to kidnap,kill and drive out the thousands of peaceful Indians found on the island the Indians called Ichirouganaim.The exact location of the island was a carefully kept secret but Spanish and Portuguese soldiers and sailors knew the island as the barbarous island,"Los B

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