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Barbados Turf Club
Horse races—another equestrian remnant from colonial times—are held Saturdays at the Garrison Savannah, a track located about two miles outside Bridgetown. The most prestigious of them all, the Sandy Lane Gold Cup, attracts jockeys and socialites from all over North...
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Beaches
Barbados’s east and west coasts offer two entirely different beach experiences. On the west coast, where most of the high-end hotels are located, you’ll find the calm turquoise waters of the Caribbean. The less crowded Atlantic coast, on the east,...
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Crop Over Festival
What began as a small celebration to mark the end of the sugarcane season (hence the name) is today a long-running (May–August) carnival of calypso competitions, arts and crafts fairs and just all-around revelry.Throngs of Barbadians with light sticks and...
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Globe Drive-In
While many parts of Barbados have an old-school British vibe, Christ Church’s drive-in theater offers an ode to 1950s America (though movies are of the contemporary blockbuster variety). Shows run nightly at 6:30 and 9:00 P.M., and the selection changes...
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Nidhe Israel Synagogue Museum
If you decide to visit Bridgetown, the Nidhe Israel Synagogue and Museum is an interesting and rather unexpected stop. Built in 1654 mostly by Sephardic Jews from Brazil (who were fleeing the recently imported Spanish Inquisition), the synagogue is thought...
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Oistins Fish Fry
Every Friday night locals flock to Oistins, a little town on the south coast, to enjoy fried fish and jam to reggae and calypso. Just fifteen minutes west of Grantley Adams International Airport, the fish fry features stalls selling fish...
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Polo
Though polo is the sport of kings, ticket prices in Barbados are altogether democratic, and throughout the season you’ll see a lot of local enthusiasts mixing with the big-hatted blue bloods. Matches, many of them international, are held January through...
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Surfing
Native Bajan Zed Layson, who traveled all over the world competing against wave wunderkinds like Taylor Knox and Kelly Slater (who returns to the island every year to surf the Soup Bowl), has come back to Barbados to teach. Single lessons...