Barbados is a single island on the eastern fringes of the Windward Islands and more specifically is situated directly east of the Grenadines. The island is considered by many to be the closest thing to England in the Caribbean. The Bajans, as the islanders call themselves, tend to appropriate rather than adapt English customs, and like to think of themselves as their own people, but there are old stone Anglican churches in every parish, horse races on Saturdays, and portraits of the Queen hanging on plenty of walls. Its most famous inhabitant is still the great Sir Garfield Sobers, for whom a large poster peers over the Immigration Hall in the capital, Bridgetown. We in fact had three different visits to Barbados - pre-cruise, where we stayed overnight at the Radisson and signed on for the
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