Roman philosopher Seneca once said that good speech must develop like making love, which means easy beginning, fiducially progression and culmination at the end. All together, as in bed, should not last for more than 2-3 minutes.(??)
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St Vincent & The Grenadines, Caribbean Dear Mr. Seneca started very well by explaining what good speech really mean but at the end of the statement he stumbled pretty much hard. To not spread discussion about his attitude about action in bed, let's stay just with his view of good speech. Because short speech and short review are almost the same as long as they are good. So, by Seneca’s instruction, let's start slowly.
Petit Saint Vincent is a 122-acre private island resort located less than hour of boat ride from Union island in the Grenadines. The resort on Petit St. Vincent is a member of the Leading Hotels of the World together with the Ritz-Carlton, Beverly Hills Hotel, and Waldorf Towers. In St. Vincent you will be spoiled in a very short time. One day you will get lobster for lunch, the other day you will get Beef Wellington... Since you are on Caribbean after all, first choose between huge range of tropical drinks, try wines and beers and after all that "activities" snork along the West End Beach and explore coral reefs. After that, just raise the red flag outside your cottage if you need privacy or the yellow one when you decide that you want to be served. Out of television and telephones this is the place for peaceful rest, miles away from loud civilization.
Antananarivo, Madagascar
If you point on Madagascar as your next choice for visit you must know that you just chose a visit to the fourth largest island in the world and the home of more than 80 percent of endemic plants and animal species. The half of all chameleons in the world and the whole population of lemurs live on Madagascar because of island's isolation of the rest of the world. Shortly speaking, you chose a kind of animal heaven for your visit. Visit Antananarivo, the capital of Republic of Madagascar, or affectionately called Tana, and see what the town has to say to you. In the 17th century king Andrianjaka's thousand men conquered the hill of Analamanga and by that occasion Antananarivo name means "The City of the Thousands".
Leave your things in Hilton Madagascar, put on something comfortable and adventure may begin. Visit Joseph Lapidaire shop specialized for semi-precious stones and the rest of the time spend to see town excitements. The highest point of the city is Rova, the royal palace from the story of thousand men above. Visit food market with all possible and impossible sorts of tropical fruits and vegetables. The city is divided on four zones. In Soarano go and see the market with medicinal plants. Malagasy people developed medicinal plants based on pharmacopoeia a long time ago to cure most diseases. Visit Astronomical Observatory, Zoological Park, explore alone the rest and have a good time.
Pitcairn
The Pitcairn Islands are the group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean known from the story of being the home of the descendants of the Bounty mutineers and the Tahitians who joined them. Among Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, only Pitcairn island is inhabited. True, it is inhabited with only 48 inhabitants from nine families, but just because of that Pitcairn is notable for being the least populated jurisdiction in the word. Thanks to tourists it doesn't feel lonely. If you want to see where Bounty set her anchor on January 15, 1790, choose July and August, the driest months in the year and be prepared to some 24 Celsius. The island has no hotels and usually you must arrange your staying with the families. If you want something new and don't suffer of luxury accommodation syndrome on every travel, take a chance by hand and meet local people. If not, set an anchor like Bounty.
There is no broadcasting TV on the island but most houses have DVDs to watch videos and internet connection is available so you are not exactly landed in the middle of nowhere, although that is not such a crazy idea. Like my partner would say: Robinson Crusoe's island is all right with me as long it has a water spring, a house built on a tree and at least one cow, everything just like in some movies. Two to three minutes of Places to go are passed. Maybe we didn't followed Seneca’s instructions the best way, but some point in his instructions, well, sucks. See you next time. ■
