Antigu-again!

Just had to go back to one of our favourite happy places! After the snow in Oslo in March, some warm sun was very much needed, and boy it was hot! Temperatures in Antigua are usually pretty similar throughout the year, hovering constantly around 30 degrees in the day and 24 degrees at night, but we arrived in the middle of a “heatwave” – a good 3 or 4 degrees higher than normal, and all the locals were moaning it was waaaaaay too hot. Not for us, although having said that after a few days the heat was very zapping!

We started with a week at the Inn at English Harbour on the south of the island where we had stayed last year (we are creatures of habit as you probably know by now!) and enjoyed going out for lunch and dinner at English Harbour and Nelson’s Dockyard areas. We were on half board basis and they are flexible to allow you to choose lunch or dinner as your included meal, and there is a fairly new beach restaurant, the Loose Cannon, just steps away on the same beach, so we also had a few meals there.

Our stay again coincided with the annual Sailing Week and we had one very lively early evening enjoying the party atmosphere at the Antigua Yacht Club with live bands and lots of rum! We also discovered our new favourite restaurant, Incanto (Italian of course!) just across the bay from the hotel – Giovanni came to pick us up in his little boat and dropped us back after a wonderful meal which was accompanied by the Sailing Week “entertainment” across the water.

After our week was up, we moved on to our “second home”, Galley Bay on the west coast, but en route we first stopped off at Keyonna Beach Resort for lunch and a site inspection. A really lovely property, with a stunning beach and a very rustic but luxurious atmosphere.

Galley Bay, as always, was a haven of all-inclusive relaxation. We settled ourselves in and stayed put for our second week – swimming, eating, drinking, swimming, eating, drinking sleeping – and Repeat!. We made friends with the resident ducks too!

We are looking forward to returning to Antigua in April 2024 – this time we will be spending the whole two weeks at the Inn at English Harbour – not because we have gone off Galley Bay but simply because we have stayed there 7 times already and there’s a whole lot of places in the South that we haven’t discovered yet!