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Tropical splendour makes you Belize

Rosalind Cummings-Yeates

Bermuda, Belize

Rosalind Cummings-Yeates lands in Belize and discovers the country’s rich Caribbean culture and its ancient traditions make it a very special place to visit.
Lovely St. Thomas is a rock-solid place to visit

Rosalind Cummings-Yeates

Virgin Islands

During a visit to St. Thomas, out writer Rosalind Cummings-Yeates discovers this Caribbean beauty has much more than palm trees and soft sandy beach with which to entice visitors.
Exploring Bermuda's sunken treasures

Marc Atchison

Bermuda

Marc Atchison discovers what you see on the surface of Bermuda is beautiful, but its real treasures lie below the waves, where sunken ships provide tourist divers with lots to explore.

Cruising around Bermuda for two days

Karen Asp

Bermuda

ST. GEORGE, BERMUDA - Confession: I’m not a one-port cruiser. Type A by nature, I prefer cruises that pack the schedule with almost-daily port calls and little downtime on the ship. Yet I changed my ...
Holidaying with sharks in the Bahamas

Cristina Hure

Bahamas

Contributor Cristina Huré fulfills a lifelong desire to swim with sharks and photographer Patrick Barton records the event for TraveLife readers in the waters off the Bahamas.
Sailing is better in the Bahamas

Kay Loek

Bahamas

CAMBRIDGE CAY, BAHAMAS — From the deck of our friend’s 49-foot Beneteau sailboat, we admire some of the pristine private islands that dot the azure waters of The Exumas, that glorious necklace of 36...

Archive by author: Rosalind Cummings-YeatesReturn

With a love for travel passed down from her globe-trotting granny, Rosalind Cummings-Yeates has spent most of her journalism career exploring cultures and documenting arts history. A Chicago native who escapes the city's six months of cold by specializing in Caribbean and Latin American travel and culture, she loves climbing volcanoes, strolling cobblestone streets and trekking on pink-sand beaches. She's the author of Exploring Chicago Blues: Inside The Scene, Past & Present (History Press) and writes a bi-weekly travel column for Travel Pulse. Follow her adventures on her travel blog, Farsighted Fly Girl and @farsightedgirl on Twitter and Instagram.

Tropical splendour makes you Belize

Rosalind Cummings-Yeates |

Rosalind Cummings-Yeates lands in Belize and discovers the country’s rich Caribbean culture and its ancient traditions make it a very special place to visit.

Lovely St. Thomas is a rock-solid place to visit

Rosalind Cummings-Yeates |

During a visit to St. Thomas, out writer Rosalind Cummings-Yeates discovers this Caribbean beauty has much more than palm trees and soft sandy beach with which to entice visitors.

Haiti has a good side, too

Rosalind Cummings-Yeates |

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Pay no attention to the media stereotypes of disaster and the ridiculous utterings of a certain world leader. Known as the Pearl of the Caribbean, Haiti and its vibrant capital, Port-au-Prince, bursts with art and activity.

Marley's Ghost still Inspires Trench Town

Rosalind Cummings-Yeates |

KINGSTON - Soft strains of reggae guitar floated over the small, gravel-strewn courtyard in Jamaica’s capital. If I had been anywhere else on the island, I would have smiled and kept walking, but I was in Trench Town, in the same “government yard” that Bob Marley referenced in his song, “No Woman, No Cry,” so I immediately headed over to the musician.