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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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!.<\/p>\n
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