19th June 2025
Those two words have a special place in the heart of every independent traveller of a certain vintage. Nicola and I are among many who, from a tender age, hoisted our backpacks and hit the road in search of adventure with one of this publisher’s travel guides tucked under our arm. Overnight visitors to our home over the decades have slept under the watchful gaze of the ever-expanding Lonely Planet library gazing down from a high bookshelf. Here are our first three volumes from early adventures: 1985 (me), 1988 (Nicola) and 1990 (me again). Each holds a treasure trove of memories. We’ll never part with them.
In the intervening decades the books have become glossier, more diverse and aimed at a wider market than the youthful backpackers who took immense satisfaction from beating down Peruvian hostel proprietors 50p a night for a bunk in a dorm. Fast forward to 2025 and a recent visit to a bookshop where I spotted this:
Irresistible! Curiosity propelled me to the section on the Americas where the following pages leapt out at me. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you arguably the most beautiful beach in Barbados, which is less than 15 minutes’ drive from Pollards Mill:
So…when are you coming?!
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