I get wary when a beach in the Caribbean is described as having pink sand, yet here I am holding a handful of grains and shell fragments that are without doubt roseate.

We never had pink sand before, explains Barbara Petit, the French co-owner of Barbuda Belle, a barefoot luxury beach escape on the north coast of Barbuda, Antiguas flat and arid sister isle. It was a surprise gift from Irma.

In September 2017 the eye of this category five hurricane passed right over the island, causing so much devastation that Barbudas 1,800 residents had to be evacuated for a year. It took the Petit family and their staff eight months to get the resorts chic wooden bungalows back in shape, but now Barbuda Belle is one of the most soul-soothing escapes Ive come across in more than two decades of Caribbean travel. Set beside a remote and deserted beach but with every comfort laid on, Barbuda Belle is the sort of castaway paradise to which Hollywood scriptwriters get banished with a stern instruction finish that movie or else!.

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