The idiot’s guide to the Caribbean

By Chris Morvan

It’s all Christopher Columbus’s fault. He was trying to get from Spain to south Asia, but ended up in the Caribbean. Easy mistake to make. Just fail to turn left when you come out of the Mediterranean and you are heading across the Atlantic ocean, bound for the wrong continent.

My recent introduction to this island threw up the complexity of having two “sides” (actually a top and a bottom part) with a plethora of nationalities and languages and two versions of the name.

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