Newburyport’s Paddle Inn and the Best Rum Punch This Side of the Tropics
Tagged: barbados, cocktails, massachusetts, newburyport, paddle inn, rum, rum punch
How did the best rum punch north of the palm tree line end up at The Paddle Inn, a surf bar in Newburyport, Massachusetts? Well, that’s because Nolan Gawron, a writer and bartender I met on my Anguilla press trip (I always drop “Anguilla press trip” whenever I get the chance), did his research in Barbados. After all, if I’ve learned anything from writing this blog, the “research” is half the fun....
Best of Barbados Beach Bars List Released – Take Two
Tagged: barbados, beach bar, best of list, caribbean
In March of 2016, Luxury Journal at Rental Escapes released a list of the best beach bars in Barbados. The list was OK but the biggest drawback was the lack of beach bars on the list. Limiting the number of beach bars to just four, it was concise, to say the least. Well, Royal Westmoreland, “a 750-acre residential community with championship golf course and leisure facilities,” decided to do them one better and upped the...
Best of Barbados Beach Bars List Released
Tagged: barbados, beach bar, best of list, caribbean
Not typically known for its beach bars, Barbados, about as far south and east as you can go and still be in the Caribbean, relies more on its rum shacks, small street-side stands dispensing rum and wisdom just about everywhere you turn. That doesn’t mean Barbados doesn’t have its fair share of great beach bars as this list from Luxury Journal at Rental Escapes illustrates. With beaches as beautiful as the ones that line the coast on...
Little Bristol Beach Bar, the Newest Beach Bar in Barbados
Tagged: barbados, beach bar, caribbean, little bristol beach bar, speightstown
The Little Bristol Beach Bar, the newest beach bar in Barbados, was opened recently in Speightstown and its owners are from the highly successful Mullins Beach Bar. From Carolyn O’Dell of www.barbadosbarbados.com who also provided the images (be sure and check out her site for Barbados travel info including villa rentals, travel planning and concierge services): “There’s a new little beach bar just opened in...
Finding Juju’s Beach Bar, Barbados
Apparently, finding Juju’s Beach Bar in Barbados can be a little tricky or at least a tad bit difficult. So much so that one YouTube user found it necessary to videotape the end of his intrepid trek for the ever evasive Juju. Anyone that’s traversed across any island in the Caribbean can empathize and will tell you that directions are often ambiguous at best. It’s not really the locals’ fault. Street signs and...
Beaches in Need of a Beach Bar
Tagged: barbados, beach, beach bar, daphne's, payne's bay
It’s hard for me to tell if any of the structures to the right of this picture are beach bars or not. If not, I think it’s my manifest destiny as a beach bar fan to claim one of them and transform it into a beach bar deserving of the setting. This beach is too beautiful not to admire and enjoy from the comforts of a beach bar. Paynes Bay on the west coast of Barbados is your quintessential Caribbean beach – sand as...
