Sunkissed Christmas
This year I’ll be celebrating my 11th Christmas on this beautiful island and my main goal for this holiday season is to make the perfect sand-snowman. I can assure you that this is a task far more difficult than Pinterest or Instagram would have you believe. Last...
Summertime During Covid-19
It’s fair to say that the Summer of 2020 was a bust, and we just had to accept that. But kids still look forward to summer. Can you blame them? We did too. Summer is one of the most exciting seasons of the year. So, I spent a few weeks racking by brain, trying to...
Back In The Day: Summer Pranking Island Style
For students, summer this year is not filled with that characteristic longing for school to end and thoughts of late nights, putting away the alarm clock and trips abroad before the "free paper" (as we love to call it in Jamaica) ends and it's back to school. The...
Ringing in the New Year in Jamaica
While North Americans are online perusing vacation spots in Jamaica to escape the cold winter, Jamaicans appreciate the cool Christmas breeze which blows down across our waters in December. Since we have no typical winter weather, we engage in spring cleaning right...
Why Christmas Doesn’t Really Work in the Tropics
Ho ho ho - it’s that time of the year again. Like everywhere else in the world, my island of Mauritius has gotten carried away in the commercial whirlwind that is the festive season. While I can assure you that I am not entirely against Christmas, I do believe that we...
Island Ingenuity: Christmas Edition
'Twas three weeks before Christmas with family arriving, when I sought holiday décor to enjoy when not diving. All through the island, not a tree was in stock; the supplier had cancelled, to my open-mouthed shock. “No tree?!” I cried, and said to myself,...
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