Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Lazy bays

Ysenda Maxtone Graham on the lure of blue skies, powder-white beaches and total relaxation

issue 14 October 2017

 Barbados

Homesick by nature, I like my foreign places to be exotic but also to remind me of home. Barbados, for types like us, is the ideal holiday destination. Sea so warm you can loll in it for hours on end, and the charm of dusty rum shacks on hot afternoons — but also cucumber sandwiches for tea, and Sunday Matins in Anglican parish churches where they sing Victorian hymns.
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