While watching the stunning sunset at Carlisle Bay recently, I was soooo excited. A huge Cruise Ship – the Carnival Venezia was leaving the port! It’s the first one to visit in many months and it starts the winter tourist season! We have missed the weekly ships who used to home port here and take many locals and visitors around the Caribbean in the summer months. Let’s hope we can get one of them to return for 2024! In the meantime, the winter will see ships, large and small, calling at our port and giving much needed business to the island people.
It’s a traditional time in Barbados for everyone to ‘spruce up the home for the season ahead’. Hurricane season is just about over and the jobs around the house that have been put off get done. Painting, decorating, fixing – it all happens in the run up to Christmas. Everyone likes to get their house looking it’s best. This is also the time when the villa owners and snow birds return so the property managers have the task of making sure all is in order. You’ll find plenty of lovely things to transform your property in some of our advertisers showrooms as the stock has arrived and it’s very tempting. Now’s the time for the facelift!
And the property market continues to boom. An agent told me recently that they have a west coast project on the beach where many of the units sold before the ground was broken! Good news indeed for the developers. Beach front property is hard to find on the island, especially on the platinum west coast and it makes a great investment.
And finally huge congrats to Josee Atkinson, Design Lead Sean Armstrong and the team on winning two awards and a nomination at the International Property Awards in Toronto for Porters Place. Bravo!
