You think it's a special part of the world, we are unspoiled, unholy.
It is truly the unspoiled Caribbean.
You come here as a stranger and you leave as family.
You're not like you're hidden away somewhere far from nature, it's always all around you.
I think we learned truly that this was the best country in the world, it is the best
country in the world.
The last 500 years, the Caribbean, its history has been absolutely remarkable.
It has been fought over, it affected the course of nations in Europe.
The sugar industry in the Caribbean is what effectively kick-started the industrial revolution
in Europe, but the magnificent fortifications of Brimstone Hill.
It is many, many, many acres that are intact and it is a magnificent fortification.
It was built originally to protect the English largely from their major adversaries, which
were the French, but after the Treaty of Versailles that all came to an end and the
island was handed over finally once and for all to the British and remain in British hands
until independence.
We're sitting at the moment in Wingfield Estate, it had been abandoned for a few years, it
was overgrown, but I saw a fabulous opportunity to develop it and indeed that's where I set
up a batik factory, Romney Manor is the only place that you can buy caribel batik, it's
an art form, each piece is worked on cloth individually, it's a wax-resist process and
we make the cloth then into clothing, accessories and a pound.
At Wingfield Estate I bought a historic gem, I found that we had in fact on-site a remarkable
old and the first in the English-speaking Caribbean sugar mill.
There are so many choices in saying kits of places to eat and drink.
There are different things for different occasions, from the exquisite and sublime to roadside
shacks which have great character, there's nowhere that you shouldn't feel unwelcoming
and that is one of the great beauties of dining out and drinking out and about in saying kits.
My name is Alex Duggins and I am the executive chef, owner of Alex Cating Services.
We do indigenous specials like our grandmother's recipes, salt, fish and mackerel.
I get inspired from the Italians, they really work along with their sources and the labour
of love is what I saw in those guys and I wanted to embrace that exercise to put me
in a position to aim for excellence and from there we stemmed from the Frigate Bay which
we have this trip, a number of outlets there which exhausts Caribbean food in a great fashion.
So first, I'm cooking by Chef Alex and that will be your appetizer to go out this trip
and stimulate your palate, you've got to be an author there.
Personally my favourite beach on the island is Sandbank Bay.
It's one of the few beaches on the Atlantic side that's protected from the big waves coming
in and you can walk out for over 100 yards on a sandy bottom before you are in water
over your head and it's just beautiful out there.
I love the nature, the plant life, the lush vegetation, the fact that we can grow almost
anything here.
In 15 minutes I can be down in a beautiful beach area that's in a completely different
environment than this.
I'm in these big spacious lawns here but then in two minutes I can walk and I'm in the rainforest.
I'm one of the family that has built and runs Otley's Plantation Inn and we started
in 1990 here on this old sugar plantation that dates back to the mid-1600s and when
we took the site it had been a private estate and we turned it into a hotel and restaurant.
I like the highlands, you just go further and further into the mountains, you've got
interesting farmers in there, fabulous views, lusher and lusher vegetation, lusher crops
growing high up and the feeling of being above everything and looking out is just great.
This is where I fell in love with nature.
The trees are getting bigger and the forest is not decreasing, it's increasing.
A third of the country is rainforest, 36 percent, so it's either here or there because it's
not only here, it's around the whole island.
We offer the rainforest nature too and the zip lining and because this area here has
such beautiful scenery in that valley there, it makes me really in love with it and every
time I take people there they feel like they're in the garden of Eden.
Our guests come to St. Kitts because they're looking for a beautiful island and a non-commercial
experience.
We invite anyone to come to our shows and get a taste of heaven.
I've got 35 years and I'll be happy to make 36 years with you.
