Our First Time to Antigua & Barbuda We Can't Believe This Place! Caribbean Travel 2024
this video is brought to you by Squarespace I'm on my [Music] hello everyone and welcome to the channel if you happen to be new around here my name is Trevor and this is Anna we are the delightful Travelers make sure to hit subscribe and click the little bell to follow along on our Caribbean Adventures now yeah we are officially in a new country we're often not sure especially on these Caribbean islands but Ana Barbuda definitely its own country today we are in Jolly Harbor and we happen to be on Jolly Beach is that a wonderful name this is Jolly Beach I'm going to like this place this is the beach we've been waiting for if you've been following our adventures we did run into a little bit of bad weather the last place we were in was anguila which was absolutely stunning but they had just had a bad storm and the beach didn't look quite the way it's supposed to but this this is glorious I think it doesn't get much better than this it's funny with the color of the water and the color of the the sand I'm actually squinting even with my sunglasses on it's so bright this is one of those beaches that is right out of your dreams right out of a travel magazine the color of the water is out of this world and the sand oh my here's the thing about antika there are 365 beaches here on this island that's right there's a beach for every day of the year today we're on this one so one of our biggest challenges when we're traveling is that we're often planning things very very very close to the time that we're traveling I know a lot of you guys probably plan things a year 6 months out and you have lost the time to plan and figure out what you want to do where you want to stay for us it doesn't always work that way cuz we are kind of traveling full-time although we're based in the Dominican Republic anyway what I would point was often it's hard to figure out what areas you want to stay in especially on an islands like this it's not a huge island but it's big enough so you have uh the main city which is St John's and there's also English Harbor and there's also a bunch of little towns around and we wanted to be somewhere kind of central where we could walk to a beach walk walk to various amenities have restaurants have a supermarket so this area has that and we'll be showing you around today and we will I think in upcoming videos also visit some other areas of the island yeah here's the best part and they're probably noticing there is not many people here if I look this way you'll see umbrellas down there we'll take them that way a few people walking by right now but honestly this is crazy on this beach it seems like everyone's kind of concentrated on the lounge chairs and then you have the rest of the beach kind of all to yourself so if you're wondering where Antiga is located it's in the middle of the Caribbean very close to Guadalupe and monserat and get this there's 100,000 people on this island so it's not a small island there's actually way more people here than I thought but we also have a little fun fact about the country it's actually one of the smallest countries in the world and we had to look this up it's the 14th smallest country in the world so for those of you that follow along week to week you might be wondering how we got here like how do we fly from anguila to Antiga because they're kind of dare I say two random Islands it's not easy to get from that Island to this island well we actually hopped aboard a little eight cedar plane and we were pretty much the only ones on it we could see the pilots there were snacks and we had some incredible views the flight was only about a half hour I didn't mind it at all did you I didn't I was really really nervous at first knowing that it was such a tiny plane but it was actually really comfortable it didn't feel overly shaky or anything it was $200 per person this actually a a private plane company called Tradewinds it was not a private plane they do some char flights here and there and they happened to do one from anguila to antika so not too bad I mean the price definitely wasn't cheap but some of the prices around the Caribbean are so expensive you're looking at500 600 $800 to get from one Island to the next so 200 seems pretty reasonable we almost had it private not too bad for the Caribbean we was only one other person with us it was just five of us on the plane it was a lot of fun it was it was an adventure and we've taken some small planes before that were a little more rickety might I say a little more scarier but this is really fun yeah let us know in the comments comments what's the smallest plane you've ever been on so if you're wondering just some of the logistical stuff about this country basically English is their language it's the official language here so you'll get by totally fine uh their currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar but USD is taken everywhere and often on the menus it's in USD or or in the Eastern Caribbean uh but we've only been paying in US Dollars and not had a problem at all they do drive on the left hand side of the road I think in an upcoming video we might rent a car so that could be a little bit of Adventure speaking of Adventures what's this over here hello we're here for some coconuts so the price of this is uh $9 to get it with rum seven without she's chopping the uh the coconut right there big machete this is super fun we didn't even know this was here completely random you excited for your coconut I am who doesn't love a fresh coconut all right we're pouring some rum into the coconut here yeah you had to drink some off make room for the rum and now that that was a pretty good board pretty is it half rum half coconut I think it is that is H way too funny she was completely having a nap and she just told us when we left that the sun's way too strong and she needs to have a nap continue the nap did you try it yet I did oh my goodness I think it's cuz it's strong right I'm pretty sure it's all it tastes like all rum I can barely even taste the coconut in there it was made with Cavalier rum which is actually from here on the island so it's our first taste of the local rum right you got to let me talk too hello on how are you um guys I'm Glenn this our local coconut go here in Ana I'm baruda and we could give it you natural and we'll give you some rum oh they have the one with rum where you from sir we're we're from Canada but we live in the Dominican Republic okay to Espanol poito okay I'm from Baba okay where was I that was an interruption he was very nice guy but now I forget what I said but anyway it was 9 USD for one of these so again going back to the currency thing she char charge that in USD and put a ton rum in there we actually haven't had lunch yet today we haven't eaten much so I don't know hopefully we we might have to go really really slow on this guy easy this is our appetizer I guess before we get any further in today's video we just wanted to say a huge thanks to Squarespace 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squarespace.com delay Travelers for 10% off the first purchase of your domain or website and of course a huge thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring this video and supporting creators like us so just right off the beach here you have this little stream and this bridge and if you're wondering there are some areas to buy like souvenirs and things like that like a loal uh like t-shirts all the basics but really besides that there's not a whole lot it's mainly just Beach I think there's a hotel this way but uh yeah if you're coming here know this is a pretty chilled out Beach yeah there's a couple of restaurants one we went to yesterday so yesterday we tried to take the day off and actually enjoy Beach day it was a little bit rainy but we got to spend a little bit but we went to the popup beach bar was that it yeah the pop-up Beach Bar a good spot we had lunch and then they gave you free chairs if you had lunch there so that was convenient cuz otherwise I think a beach chair or two Beach louers and an umbrella about $ 20 to $25 for the day 25 bucks so not as cheap as the Dr but uh definitely not as expensive as Turks and C all right we found some uh more souvenirs and trinkets you're going to get anything don't think so I haven't really bought anything on this trip and we're not big souvenir people if I shop I usually just get some jewelry or something but really these videos are souvenir for us yeah there's quite the crowd over here though right oh yeah I don't know what's happening well I bet you there's a lot of cruise ships that come to this island do you think there's some Cruisers here Yes actually I looked at the cruise ship schedule yesterday what did I say there were four cruise ships in today yeah yeah crazy luckily it's a big island so there's beaches for everybody right off the beach you have these like town houses that are more or less on a marina so I guess if you lived here or stayed here you could like pull your boat right up to your house funny enough we almost rented one of these we had family members that just about came down to to meet us to spend some time here with us but the logistics just didn't work out with the timing but I keep thinking oh if they were here now we'd be staying over there it would have been fun that would have been so much fun but yeah look at this you guys like there's someone's boat and their place there and there's multiple kind of areas like there's another dog little boat one kind of here on the side we need a boat we need a boat we need a townhouse and a boat should we move here and buy one I'm sure we can totally afford it there are so many unique houses here I definitely like that aspect about the area we're in they're not all like Cookie Cutter they're all colorful and small some are a little bit larger but you guys might be wondering who comes here like who are the main tourists by that that's right yeah so it just for a little bit of context we were just in St Martin and then we were in anguila and we found a pretty big variety of tourists and anguila specifically was a lot of Canadians and Americans and I thought being like a territory of uh United Kingdom that maybe there'd be a lot of Brits there but there were not but there seems to be a lot here yeah we keep hearing British accents and we shouldn't be surprised by that but again in angua there was expected more there but overall it is predominantly Americans for sure we've heard some Canadian accents but we mainly hear American accents the other thing we noticed is a lot of people get around by golf cart here yeah I think that's just in the marina area we're going to show you more of it in a little bit so it makes sense when you see like how the layout Works cuz there's a lot of stuff in this area I don't think you can take it out and onto the main street through the mountains and stuff but around here it's really convenient cuz it's pretty spread out makes sense to go to like the restaurants and the supermarket on a golf cart I love it there there something about the golf carts do you find it makes it a little more Posh or something it's Posh but it's yeah there's just something it makes you feel like you're on like a golf course even though you're not next up we came over to this adorable looking food truck take a look at this you guys we're absolutely St starving we got a sandwich we'll talk about this in a minute also we got this juice this is called a citrus blast and I believe in here we got some orange juice grapefruit and lemon we'll try it sounds like it should be uh a little bitter oh yeah in a good way oh man that is fresh but one thing you're going to notice today is the prices we just paid for this you'll see it on the screen shortly but the prices are quite High we knew that uh coming in a little different in uh in the Dr or where we're from I'm repping the shirt today but uh we'll get into that but speaking of getting into things let's get into the sandwich so the sandwich I got is called a French Panini and I'm a little bit bummed out because I saw BLT on the menu and I just wanted a BLT you know how when you see something you're like yeah then I ordered it and then about 10 minutes later they said and I paid they said uh we don't have it so they convinced me to get a French Panini uh there's ham spinach tomato mozzarella and avocado on this except I said avocado there's no avocado on this so I'm striking out a little bit today but uh let's get into it and see how it is so I think because it's missing the avocado it's not quite doing it for me there's no like Special Sauce on here they said there was going to be a little bit of like a basil pesto and I mean if there is any on there it's not too much so because of that there's not a ton of flavor you're getting like the basic ingredients the bread's really good though I'll give it an A+ there the rest overall it's just okay for what we're paying today for this I definitely expected uh a little more but I guess if you're come in here still try it out maybe because they didn't have ingredients today I'm striking out a little bit but hopefully Anna is a little better so I went for the buffalo chicken panini hopefully a little bit more flavor in this I actually had to pull out the menu because there's so many things on this so there is lettuce spicy chicken cheese sauteed bell peppers sweet onions and avocado and I actually see avocado in this so I wonder maybe I got the last avocado maybe they made mine first and then they were out of course that's how it [Music] went Ooh Baby if Trevor's is lacking in flavor mine definitely makes up for it that actually gives quite a punch there's some spicy something in there I think it must be the chicken doesn't taste overly Buffalo to me so I think it's really just more spicy than anything there must be some chilies or something I do see some little red flakes in there so maybe some red pepper flakes or chili flakes it's nice and cheesy this one's really really good by the way you guys might be saying you're on Antiga you should be having local food trust us that's in the plans we always try to plan out our videos a little bit in advance so right now we're thinking we're going to do a fullon food video hopefully that works out and then we're probably going to do a thing on prices cuz you're also wondering I bet you you're wondering how expensive is this island so we'll be talking about that in a separate video we've just made our way down to the marina here and question for you guys have you ever seen so many boats in one place it actually feels a little bit endless but I have an answer I think I have seen more boats than this in St Martin St Martin had a for one maybe more Super Yachts than I've ever seen in my life I feel like there was between 500 and 1,000 on that island Maybe I'm Wrong someone could let me know but these boats as well there's tons of those in St Martin there's also tons here so it's just interesting to see what islands have all the boats like why do all the Ys come here found a sign here the Barbuda Express so there is two islands there is so interesting fact for you here we are two islands one country a couple of islands ago as Trevor just said we were on St Martin which is one Island two countries very very interesting although I did actually read that Antiga and Barbuda there is one third island I forget what it's called but there's nothing on it so it is basically three islands but only two that are inhabited yeah it looks like this must be the express boat right behind you it's kind of a cool cool rig isn't it I know I wish I had more time to actually go over there and explore that Island too but we don't take a look at this building it looks like it's straight out of Italy so we have some amazing architecture mixed in with all the boats and what's really cool is this really long Boardwalk it's all made of wood so it's very pleasant down here not much wind not much wind is a really nice spot and there are a whole bunch of restaurants another reason that we picked this area to stay in there's like uh I think we're walking by a Mexican place right now there is an Indian place there's just some basic like pubby type spots as well there's Italian so it's a great spot to be if you want to be able to walk or golf cart everywhere so walking around here we're just talking amongst our uh ourselves comparing it of course to where we live in the Dominican Republic and the Dominican Republic is just so big it's such a big island it basically feels like its own continent compared to this island and the other Islands we've been on lately yeah and obviously it's Spanish so you're going to have a little bit of that happen you know culture a little more culture shock if you going definitely culture shock but it's a it's a lot of fun we obviously love it cuz we live there it's a lot cheaper for sure it depends what you you want right if you want to bit of that culture shock and to be outside of your element and by that I mean we're from Canada and I know there'd be a lot of Americans watching if you want to just go out of your comfort zone that's why we're in the Dr but still in the Dr there's a lot of Comforts it's just span they drive pretty crazy but overall we absolutely love that place the island is beautiful these islands though so different totally so St Martin obviously divided by two different nations uh one side the Dutch side actually feels quite loud and lot happening and it's almost like americ it feels like America and a little bit crazy but not in terrible way but maybe if you want to avoid that you might want to go to the French side we a little more sophisticated and laid back eclectic bougie so then if we leave St Martin but one thing we'll say St Martin lots of traffic too many cars on that island I'm just going to say there's way too much traffic on that island uh then we went to anguila and that's way more uh super chill it's also flat so the other islands are quite mountainous and hilly that one's very very flat easy to drive around beautiful beaches although we didn't have the best weather for that um but just like a super if you just want to go relax and have like that's the place Beach vacation and you have money for it go for it and now here and we are just in our first couple of days here we've really only seen this area so in the next few videos we should get a better VI a better idea of the vibe but this is like a first impressions for us uh first day feet on the ground and so far it feels a little bit more like St Martin we're just comparing it to recent places definitely not like anguila and as we move around the island we'll kind of give our thoughts as but I would also say when you compare it to St Martin but not the crazy like drinking party side of it just but a chill aspect to it as well yeah but and a lot of people are here too and again I think there's more locals that live here here than St Martin I could be wrong on that but there's definitely a lot of tourists so interesting so far it's a lot of fun for our first day and just yeah didn't expect to be on this Marina right now didn't expect to be right by an amazing beach again there's 365 beaches on island absolutely nuts well we're back on the beach here for Sunset we found the most adorable little beach bar to catch this epic Sunset and we grabbed a Carib we are big fans of this beer you can get them all over the Caribbean just not so much in the D are where we live but we always love when we can grab these we pop a lime in it tastes a little bit like a Corona but one thing we can't get over already is just how empty the beach is here right now so we're facing west and we're here for the sunset we fully expected like fully expected this place to be packed with people and what we wonder is are the Cruisers leaving and we see some cruise ships there off in the distance and I think that's what's happening so in the day I think this gets extremely busy with people and I know there's other beaches around as well but this beach maybe is one of the more popular ones but uh at the end of the day it definitely clears out so know that if you're coming here right now I kind of feel like we got this place to ourselves it feels super chill and it's High season like not what I expected at all I know we just ate in the video but in real time it's actually been quite a few hours since we had our lunch so we decided to go for a little appetizer here on the beach Trevor was just talking about the beer that we got it's kib which obviously is the Caribbean beer but they do actually have a local beer called wadle we haven't actually found it on the menu anywhere yet hopefully we'll still find it throughout our stay and we can try it on video but what they do have here is some wly wings so these are some chicken wings that are in beer sauce these are these are red they're red I'm curious what makes them red there must be some sort of seasoning or something in there to do that I don't know if they're going to be spicy and to not being a beer batter but you never know we are in the Caribbean they like their hot sauce here I know I like the I like the sound of some beer wings not even remotely spicy I'll probably be adding some hot sauce cuz they did bring it to the table that's one thing I love about the Caribbean you rarely have to even ask for hot sauce they just automatically bring it when you order food These are nice and yummy there's a little bit of a sweetness to it I don't know if that's from the beer or from something else if they add some sugar or some honey or something like that interesting flavor but way better with hot sauce for sure well how about this epic Sunset I still cannot believe how chilled out it is here and and yeah that's simply amazing here I'll pan this way to see if I can kind of get it behind me the camera might go Haywire but this is beautiful isn't it it is so if any of you guys have been here before you're from here you spent a lot of time here any recommendations on what are your favorite beaches leave a comment below but probably by the time that this video comes out we won't be here anymore but at least we can take your recommendations and other people can as well yeah that's the big thing if you leave a comment and tell everyone their favorite Beach and this place they'll maybe see it and go there cuz we want to know for the next time we come back we're really really digg in this place that's for sure yes but speaking of that if you want to come enjoy an island with us in the very near future you have the opportunity to do so a lot of you guys will know this already but we're doing a group trip to Greece September of this year I know when we when we officially launched it we were basically a year out yeah when this video comes out we should be at the six month point so if you've been holding off if you've been nervous about it or anything send us a message we can talk about it but we'll also put Link in the description below yeah just to reiterate we'll say Okay so we're going to cre yes gree so if you don't know much about cre it's the I believe the biggest island in all of Greece it's totally like it's almost like its own country totally different it's not like the white and blue buildings but don't let that turn you off because there's so much to do it looks like planet Mars you don't have to be in super shape to do this we're not hiking mountains we're basically going to go around eat go to monasteries go to beaches and have a ton of fun and talk travel with all of you guys we get to hang out talk about our favorite placees to go to yeah so as of now there's about 3 months until we have to have final numbers confirmed and everybody paid up so if you are thinking about it now is really the time to jump on it because it gives you a few months to plan get all the money in order get your payments plans all set up and everything so been holding off also we have heard recently that we can get you a discount code if you're interested we only have a limited number so let us know if you are but for now First Impressions yeah love it this place is great you can hear the coming in so far so good it is a bit pricey we know that you're going to hear us talk about that cuz and I think some people have probably left a comment already saying I think the area we're in I mean with the marina and everything it's going to be a little bit more pricey than say the capital but I mean it's a beautiful area yeah we're going to try to get to the capital soon and we got some other ideas this should not be the last video here in Inga so expect more if you don't know who we are it's Trevor and Anna delightful Travelers hit subscribe if you're new leave a comment all that stuff if you're not new you guys are the best for coming back every single week we're going to turn the camera off and watch this sunset go down and probably get some more food in the little house I know believe it or not we will eat again all right guys that's it from Antigua wishing you delightful travels see you soon [Music]
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