Special This Week: "I did find a pretty good deal but it ends on November 4 - before the next installment of Airfare Specials this Week, so thought I'd start the week off by sharing the special. Barbados is one of those expensive islands in the Caribbean - it's farther away and the airfares tend to be higher than many other Caribbean destinations. This is what makes the package deal to Barbados particularly sweet - for what would normally be the price of airfare, you get some hotel accommodations thrown in for good measure."
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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