Bequia sunrise
(Picture: Ben Cobb)Thanks to the Bequia Beach Hotel’s private nine-seater plane, the island of Bequia, aka ‘the Caribbean’s best-kept secret’ to those in the know, is just a 30-minute hop from Barbados. Due to my delayed BA flight, my luggage didn’t catch up with me for another 24 hours but, such is the instant magic of this isle, any wardrobe woes evaporated on arrival.
Apart from the open-top truck waiting for me, the only action at Bequia airport was a warring pair of goats and children booting a saggy football around a dirt patch next to the runway. It might be the second largest island in the Grenadines with a population of 4,000 but, for reasons best known to itself, Bequia hasn’t changed in decades. And it has no plans to.
