My trip report from St Kitts is up. Going into the trip, I didn’t know much about St. Kitts, other than it – along with sister island Nevis – was the smallest country in the Western Hemisphere. I discoverd that besides being beautfiful, the island has a rich and tragic history rooted...

Five Reasons is a new weekly feature, where I outline the reasons why a destination is hot right now. If you’d like to run Five Reasons in your publication or on your website, contact me at chris@caroundtheworld.com. This week, I’m examining St. Kitts, where I spent four days at the Marriott...

How does an island change its image, when it doesn’t have much of one to begin with? That’s the challenge facing tiny St. Kitts, which happens to be the smallest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Traditionally, it’s been known as a British-tinged Big Sugar island, where one lolls on...

I didn’t want to leave St. Kitts without visiting some of the venerable plantation inns and small guesthouses that have been the cornerstone of the island’s reputation. So yesterday, I hired a cab and went up to the Golden Lemon, an old-school Caribbean B&B that has garnered favorable...

Let’s get the disclosure out of the way. I’m here in St. Kitts because Marriott’s public relations team paid for me to be here as part of a “9 bloggers in paradise” promotion. There’s a hashtag on Twitter where you can follow all of our tweets: #blogparadise. So there’s...