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Relaxing on Barbados

The Orange County Register "George Washington slept here.

Among the hundreds of markers that make that claim, the most curious is here on Barbados, the easternmost Caribbean island, off Venezuela, which Washington visited in 1751.


"He apparently enjoyed his stay, despite a bout of smallpox, writing in his diary: 'In the cool of the evening we rode in the country and were perfectly enraptured with the beautiful scenery which every side presented our view. The fields of cane, corn, fruit trees in a delightful green.'

Washington, who was then 19, needed six weeks to sail from Virginia with his half brother Lawrence, who had tuberculosis. Lawrence Washington hoped the tropical air would be restorative.

My wife and I needed five hours on a direct flight from New York to make our first visit here.

And unlike the Washingtons, who came for recuperation, we, along with friends from London, came for the sun and rum."

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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