~ days at places like Cobbler’s

Barbados
not for the

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Irishmen who have closed it
for 18 months while they do
a major renovation. It will
rcopen, with 45 holes of golf
and, presumably, even high-
er rates.

~ But that’s what Barbados
is all about these days.

And while many prices

~ are in U.S. dollars, it’s the
newly rich British who are
-behind the boom such as
one group I saw at Royal

~ Westmoreland golf course
(green fees $175 U.S.), men
with shiny Cartier watches

‘ and sleek, corblimey women.

Condos at the handsome
coastal. marina of Port Sr
Charles, a mini-Port
Grimaud, are being snapped
up for. prices approaching $1
million,.and a good dinner
at the Mews, the current hot
spot, is $150, and we’re still
‘talking. American dollars.

_-It’s a far cry from 20
years ago when Wardair was
flying in charter-loads of
Canadians for cheap and

“cheerful self-catering holi-

Cave.
Nobody thought any-

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thing of taking a villa, nor
paying $1-a day for a maid.
Today Cobbler’s Cove

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I saw an exciting match

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~~,

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