Romance takes different forms in the Caribbean. Sometimes it shows up in clean-lined modern design with a long horizon and a quiet beach club. Sometimes it leans timeless, wrapped in wood, stone, and slow dinners under palms. It can feel grand, played out across cliffs and infinity edges, or deeply intimate, contained within a handful […]
It’s straight out of a novel — or perhaps out of one you’ll be writing when you’re here. This is the charming little LoBleu Hotel on the island of Terre de Haut in the Guadeloupe archipelago. It’s a simple, affordable, well-run place with a party piece: a front-row seat on the island’s main beach. It’s […]
The best-kept secret in the French Caribbean By Alexander Britell TERRE-DE-HAUT — It’s not hard to get here. But it’s hard enough. It’s a short, twice-daily ferry ride from the tall cliffs of Trois-Rivieres on Guadeloupe’s island of Basse-Terre. There are flights here, very small flights, into a very small airport. That’s it. Regular trips, […]
Above: the view from a hillside room at Le Bois Joli (All photos by CJ) It’s one of the jewels of the whole Caribbean: the tiny island of Terre de Haut in the Guadeloupe archipelago. Often described as a mini-St Barth, Terre de Haut is far more than that: it’s naturally beautiful, it’s got amazing […]
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