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KIZOMBA & BACHATA AFFAIR. KBA FESTIVAL 2nd – 4th May 2025 At the Bay Heights Escape Rodney Bay Reasons To be Cheerful In my quest to try everything once. I signed up for the salsa dance class as part of the KBA Latin Dance Festival in beautiful, sassy St. Lucia. Let me tell you, it […]

KIZOMBA & BACHATA AFFAIR. KBA FESTIVAL 2nd – 4th May 2025 At the Bay Heights Escape Rodney Bay Reasons To be Cheerful The KBA FESTIVAL Saint Lucia 2025 (a Kizomba and Bachata affair) is to be held at the Bay Heights Escape Rodney Bay during the Jazz Festival season. It’s a dance-arts festival for all […]

Reasons To Be Cheerful. The enigma amongst the jewels of St. Lucia. Reduit Beach Rodney Bay. Dear Reader let me get straight to the point. I’ve endured a torrid relationship with Reduit Beach Rodney Bay. A kind of Richard Burton-Elizabeth Taylor, love and hate-thing (if you’re old enough to “get my drift.) For as long as […]

Reasons to be cheerful: A Rastafarian Wake As a person of a certain age, I’ve decided to change my behaviour. No more negativity. Life is too short and is definitely what you make it. (Ask my daughters!) More than anything, age has taught me, it’s a privilege to be alive, especially as one witnesses the demise […]

Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 12 Morne Fortune Museum & Art Gallery Castries (In Kwéyòl Kastwi) Natasha Fontenelle Artist – Poet – Sculptor Maker of wearable installation and fixed ceramic sculptures. As an experienced and hardened art gallery attendee. I am grateful, that I’m still able to be critically moved when encountering beauty and demonstrative truth.  […]

Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 11  Latille Garden Waterfall & Fish Spa In Micoud (Mikou)&New Jerusalem Mineral Bath (Hot Warm & Cold Pools) Soufriere (Soufwiye) Charles Dickens’ enthusiasts, please allow me an indulgence. For this tale of two waterfalls.  It was the best of times. It was the most wonderful of times. It was beyond the beauty […]

Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 10 Canaries(or Kannawi in Kwéyòl) Disclosure: My mother’s family is from Canaries. They lived there until the late fifties, and I really do love the place. In the early seventies a violent Hurricane took our family home and the road it stood on, all washed away and taken to “Davy Jones Locker.” What’s […]

Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 9 Choiseul (or Chwazèy in Kwéyòl) Choiseul Art Gallery: Hattie and Leo Barnard Drive South on through Canaries, and Soufriere – past the Sulphur Springs on your left, then on to  the magnificent Petit and Gros Piton, keeping along the coast road, one arrives at the stunning and tranquil village of Choiseul. ThereI met […]

Capital City Castries (In Kwéyòl Kastwi) Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 8 There shall be many vignettes about Castries over the lifespan of these blogs. It’s the capital city of St Lucia. There are an infinite number of interesting topics and stories to write about this bustling, thriving, energetic, and surprisingly beautiful city. Looking Down On Castries Harbour View […]

Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 7  Anse La Raye & Canaries (or Lanslawè  & Kannawi in Creole) Even those close to me would not know or appreciate that I’m the product of a mixed-race marriage. My mother is from Canaries and my father is from Anse La Raye! Rival neighbouring towns, no more than six miles apart on the west coast […]