The early light on Ambergris Caye brushes the water in pale green and then deep blue before the sun clears the horizon. Boats slip across the calm sea, and the reef is already near enough that you can see the dark patches of coral beneath shallow water. At Reef Haven Belize, the day begins with […]
Hot dogs, apple pie, baseball and the Best American Rums. This is now the seventh annual edition of what has become one of our favorite traditions at Caribbean Journal: compiling the list of the best rums in America to celebrate July 4th. Since we began highlighting rums made in America, there’s been a boom in […]
By Alexander Britell GRAND CASE – There’s always something new to discover on Grand Case Boulevard, a corner unseen, a tiny alley overlooked. It’s a street that has lived many lives — including this latest one, a renaissance in the wake of unwanted visitors. The newest addition to Grand Case, though, is exceptionally special. It’s called […]
By Alexander Britell It was the first rhum agricole I had ever tried. And, instantly, rum was never the same. I was at a dinner at the Royal Riviera hotel in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat in 2006, when the waiter brought around the digestif cart. He pointed to a worn-looking bottle with a taupe leather […]
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