Caribbean Calypsos
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Caribbean Calypsos 〰️
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![A Guadeloupe woman in local traditional Caribbean costume]()
Guadeloupe
I’d promised myself an I-hate-Christmas getaway to a hot tropical island. No gaudy shopping malls. No merry muzak. No hysterical spending matches. No sad rehashings of Dysfunctional Christmas Pasts. But what is this? Am I discovering that I actually like the holiday? At least the way they do it in Créole, in the French West Indies on Guadeloupe, one of the few Caribbean isles under-trammeled by tourists.
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![Painting of a person's side profile with dreadlocks in various colors, including orange, brown, purple, green, and red, against a black background.]()
Jamaica Unbraided
Jamaica is renowned for spice and vice. And sun and rum and Ganja and Reggae and wild Rastafarian tresses and Rent-a-Dred lover boys with bleached dredlocks, and charming hucksters begging to show you the real Bob Marley house, sell you eye-bulging erotic wood-carvings—and braid your hair.
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![A vintage light green car parked at a parking lot with trees and other vehicles in the background.]()
Cuba Libre
Photographs of living on Cuban Time - and loving it!
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![A traditional Guadeloupe cemetery with white mausoleums and tombstones under cloudy Caribbean sky.]()
My Friend the Witch Doctor
You’ll laugh if I tell you that the very first person I asked about voodoo on the isle of Guadeloupe turned out to be a houngan—a witch doctor! But this is exactly what happened…
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![A sailboat on the ocean with a blue sky overhead, near the shore with clear shallow water and sandy beach.]()
British Virgin Gorda
