Guide to Barbados
Must See Barbados
- Barbados Museum
- Barbados Wildlife Reserve
- Bridgetown
- Holetown
- St Lawrence
- Sunbury Plantation House
- Tyrol Cot Heritage Village
- Welchman Hall Gully
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At a glance
Barbados is the 'Little England' of the Caribbean, but not so much so that the locals have given up rotis for kidney pies, or rum for bitter ale. Bajans, as the islanders call themselves, are as West Indian as any of their Caribbean neighbours, and have tended to selectively borrow rather than assume English customs.
Barbados sits almost a hundred miles east of its closest neighbour, so when the Spaniards, Danes, French and others were busy fighting over the rest of the Caribbean, Barbados sat back with its Pimm's on ice, remaining solidly British.
Fast Facts
- Full name:
- Barbados
- Capital city:
- Bridgetown
- Area:
- 432 sq km / 167 sq miles
- Population:
- 264,000
- Time Zone:
- GMT/UTC -4 (Greenwich Mean Time)
- Language:
- English (official)
- Religion:
- Protestant (67%), Roman Catholic (4%), none (17%), other (12%)
- Currency:
- Barbados Dollar
- Electricity:
- 115V 50Hz
- Electric plug details:
- Japanese-style plug with two perpendicular flat blades
- American-style plug with two perpendicular flat blades above a circular grounding pin
- American-style plug with two perpendicular flat blades above a circular grounding pin