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DESTINATIONS ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES | CARIBBEAN


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here’s a formidable new cocktail at Sparrow’s Beach Bar, on the north coast of Union Island in the Grenadines.


Created by its genial staff, the drink mixes rum, gin and vodka and is called ‘Never Again Beryl’ – a reference to the Category 4 hurricane that stormed through the Grenadines on July 1, 2024, causing severe damage. “We went through months of hell,” owner


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Bertrand Sailly tells me as I take a seat in his rebuilt restaurant, with its enticing menu of freshly caught tuna and wahoo. “But now we’re back to paradise.”


CANOUAN CALLING We certainly are. I arrived on a dreamy half-day catamaran cruise via Tobago Cays Marine Park, where you can snorkel with turtles and manta rays. Next stop was Canouan, an island that’s just three-and-a-half miles long with a mere 2,000 residents. Beryl passed through here too, but other than a few lingering effects – only nine holes on the Canouan Estate golf course, which can be


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