Nov 7th, 2009 at 11:00AM:
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Grenada is so off the radar for a lot of Americans that it leaves a lot to be learned about the country. (For one, how it's pronounced. Answer: "Gren-ay-da.")
But here are some of the more practical tidbits that I learned while in the island ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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The Spice Isle: What the Grenada guidebooks might not tell you
Nov 7th, 2009 at 11:00AM:
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Grenada is so off the radar for a lot of Americans that it leaves a lot to be learned about the country. (For one, how it's pronounced. Answer: "Gren-ay-da.")
But here are some of the more practical tidbits that I learned while in the island ...The Spice Isle: Making the most of a cruise stopover in Grenada
Nov 6th, 2009 at 2:00PM:
It's official -- the cruise season in Grenada has begun. Actually, the first day of the season fell on a day when I was there recently. I might've missed the influx because I was across the island during most of their 12-hour stay, but I saw the big boat sail in during my breakfast, and sail away during my dinner. Ideally, you'd want several days on the island where you could see waterfalls in ...The Spice Isle: Grenada moves on past Hurricane Ivan
Nov 5th, 2009 at 1:00PM:
I didn't know a lot about Grenada before visiting recently, but one name was familiar to me: Ivan -- the hurricane that came through with force in 2004. So once I got there, I wanted to find out two things: what's it like during a hurricane? And how does the country look now, five years later? You first have to realize -- the hurricane was a fluke. The reason some residents were actually ...The Spice Isle: Where trails are paved with nutmeg shells
Nov 4th, 2009 at 1:30PM:
"You can use it for tea" he says after picking the small leaf and handing it to me to smell. There doesn't seem to be anything that Telfor Bedeau doesn't know about Grenada's plants. In the past 50 yards alone, he's pointed out trees that would've gone unnoticed as anything other than anonymous tropical trees. But now they're recognized as some of my favorite things in the world: guava, mango, ...The Spice Isle: Nutmeg's always the answer in Grenada
Nov 3rd, 2009 at 12:30PM:
You wouldn't know it from the abundance of nutmeg in shops, but Grenada's production of the spice stopped five years ago. And it'll continue to be at a halt for another five years. Why? Because of Hurricane Ivan. 82% of the island's nutmeg trees were destroyed by the 2004 hurricane. But amazingly enough, there's still plenty of nutmeg there. On my recent trip to Grenada, I found it everywhere ...
