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Friday I’m In Love…
It is 4:59pm Thursday afternoon and the excitement and anticipation is already building…tomorrow is Friday! You awake on Friday morning and for the first time all week spritely jump out of bed. Whilst having your morning coffee you’re browsing through your Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest timeline which is filled with “TGIFs, I Love Fridays, Cheers to the Weekend” status updates, quotes and pictures. You also post your own “I LOVE FRIDAY” quote tagging your besties and weekend pals. It …
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Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me.
It’s almost always that mom is expected to be the strongest and the quietest influence on us. Only a mother seems capable of balancing so many roles and always with a smile. Join with us as we honour and celebrate motherhood with this fabulous poem from Maya Angelou. Mother: A Cradle to Hole Me It is true I was created in you. It is also true That you were created for me. I owned your voice. It was shaped and …
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Eating Local When Travelling.
So you’ve done the bus tour and seen Fig Tree Drive, Devil’s Bridge, Nelson’s Dockyard, Shirley’s Heights, spent endless hours on our beautiful beaches, swam with the sting rays, shopped for souvenirs in Redcliffe and Heritage Quay, plus worked on your golf handicap. Now with all that done here’s the big question: “Have you really experienced Antigua & Barbuda?” Many travellers will tell you that until you interact with local residents, you’ve only just skimmed the surface. For many the …
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Learning New Things About Old Things
There is an old adage that says, “you learn something new every day” and today we learnt a lot of new things about something very old. Many of us here in Antigua and in the Caribbean grew up using concentrate drink mix Sunquick. A bottle of Sunquick could be found in every cupboard as it was economical and a quick way to make a cool and refreshing drink for the kids. Today some of our restaurant and kitchen staff attended …
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Travelling Solo? Stay At Trade Winds Hotel!
The number one…to many it may be the loneliest number especially when it comes to travelling. But of late the number of persons travelling solo has been increasing. For many, travelling solo is the ultimate liberating experience affording you flexibility where your time is truly your OWN. Despite being tagged as one of the Caribbean’s most romantic destination, Antigua is also perfect for the solo traveller. Whether you are looking for an exotic and intimate setting to hide yourself away …
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Busy As Bees We’ve Been…
It seems like just yesterday we were decking the halls and getting all glitzy and glamourous for Christmas and making New Year’s resolutions…and what a wonderful time we had here at Trade Winds Hotel and Bay House Restaurant & Bar…thank you for spending and sharing that time with us. Now Spring is here and we are very excited and we’ve been up to quite a lot. In January we began converting our upper deck into a state of the art …
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New Events & Conference Facilities.
The Trade Winds Hotel is known to many as the “Business Traveller’s” choice hotel in Antigua because of its proximity to the airport and St. John’s City as well as for our conference, business facilities and our Bay House Restaurant. To better serve our business clients and with the launch of our wedding packages, in January 2013 we began construction on a bigger multi-function events space and we are happy to say it is finally completed. The new facility has been designed …
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