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Capitals
Sunny cities to
satisfy thy soul
It’s no city-break destination, but some of the Caribbean’s capitals are
well worth a visit. Philippa Jacks finds music and more in Kingston,
and gets the lowdown on urban highlights throughout the region
KINGSTON, JAMAICA. museum in 1986 and is now one of the city’s In his bedroom, you see his simple bed
After two weeks of hearing One Love best-known tourist attractions, and also a and trademark star-shaped guitar, and his
morning, noon and night, leaving Jamaica semi-sacred site for faithful Rastas. favourite denim shirt hangs on the wall.
without a visit to the Bob Marley Museum Visits are by guided tour only and last In the Awards Room, where the walls
was simply not an option. about an hour, beginning in the yard with gleam with gold and platinum discs, the full
I didn’t live through Bob Marley first time the murals, statues and battered truck that might of Marley’s musical legacy is clear: One
round – I wasn’t born until a year after his he used to drive. Love was voted anthem of the century by the
death in 1981. But I’ve always enjoyed his Inside, in the Shot Room, there is bullet BBC in 1999, and Exodus was voted album of
music so was looking forward to finding damage from an assassination attempt in the century by Time magazine.
out more about the man himself. 1976 – Marley had shrapnel lodged in his I also came away from the museum with
The house at 56 Hope Road became a elbow until the day he died. a clearer understanding of the Rastafari
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