Antigua & Barbuda
Claim to fame Cricketers. Despite its diminutive size, the country has produced a large number of great players, including Sir Andy Roberts, Sir Viv Richards and Sir Richie Richardson. Don’t miss The annual mango festival, held in July and packed with fruit, but also mango jams, candles, ice creams and even wine. Residents past or present Almost too many to count, from local writer Jamaica Kincaid to Italian designer Giorgio Armani and, among the British, Ken Follett, Timothy Dalton and Eric Clapton. Boxer Maurice Hope came from Antigua to London—and on to the 1972 Olympics.
The Bahamas
Claim to fame The world’s largest underwater sculpture (Jason deCaires Taylor’s 18ft-tall Ocean Atlas, off the coast of New Providence), plus a sequence of almost records, from the the second-deepest sea-water sinkhole (the 663ft Dean’s Blue Hole, off Long Island), to the third-largest barrier reef (around Andros Island) and even the third-largest wine cellar: part of the Graycliff Hotel in Nassau, it had originally been built as a jail. The islands are also ‘almost’ part of the Caribbean: although they belong to the Caribbean Community organisation, they are not in the Caribbean Sea.
Don’t miss Big Major Cay, a beach in the Exuma Cays, home to a herd of swimming pigs.
Residents past or present Olympic sportsmen and women—in Tokyo, the Bahamas ranked second for gold medals per capita —and film stars: Sir Sidney Poitier was brought up in the Bahamas and many have bought homes on the islands, from the late Sir Sean Connery to Eddie Murphy and John Travolta.
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Save our family farms
IT Tremains to be seen whether the Government will listen to the more than 20,000 farming people who thronged Whitehall in central London on November 19 to protest against changes to inheritance tax that could destroy countless family farms, but the impact of the good-hearted, sombre crowds was immediate and positive.
A very good dog
THE Spanish Pointer (1766–68) by Stubbs, a landmark painting in that it is the artist’s first depiction of a dog, has only been exhibited once in the 250 years since it was painted.
The great astral sneeze
Aurora Borealis, linked to celestial reindeer, firefoxes and assassinations, is one of Nature's most mesmerising, if fickle displays and has made headlines this year. Harry Pearson finds out why
'What a good boy am I'
We think of them as the stuff of childhood, but nursery rhymes such as Little Jack Horner tell tales of decidedly adult carryings-on, discovers Ian Morton
Forever a chorister
The music-and way of living-of the cabaret performer Kit Hesketh-Harvey was rooted in his upbringing as a cathedral chorister, as his sister, Sarah Sands, discovered after his death
Best of British
In this collection of short (5,000-6,000-word) pen portraits, writes the author, 'I wanted to present a number of \"Great British Commanders\" as individuals; not because I am a devotee of the \"great man, or woman, school of history\", but simply because the task is interesting.' It is, and so are Michael Clarke's choices.
Old habits die hard
Once an antique dealer, always an antique dealer, even well into retirement age, as a crop of interesting sales past and future proves
It takes the biscuit
Biscuit tins, with their whimsical shapes and delightful motifs, spark nostalgic memories of grandmother's sweet tea, but they are a remarkably recent invention. Matthew Dennison pays tribute to the ingenious Victorians who devised them
It's always darkest before the dawn
After witnessing a particularly lacklustre and insipid dawn on a leaden November day, John Lewis-Stempel takes solace in the fleeting appearance of a rare black fox and a kestrel in hot pursuit of a pipistrelle bat
Tarrying in the mulberry shade
On a visit to the Gainsborough Museum in Sudbury, Suffolk, in August, I lost my husband for half an hour and began to get nervous. Fortunately, an attendant had spotted him vanishing under the cloak of the old mulberry tree in the garden.
