Notes on the island from the people who own the homes: how to get here, where we eat, which beaches are worth the drive, and what a good week looks like from Dickenson Bay.
Flight times from New York, Miami, Toronto and London, the twenty-minute taxi from the airport, visas, money, driving on the left and the small things that make arrival easy.
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Lunch on the sand, dinner on a cliff, fish and rum in St. John's, and the supermarket that makes a week in a kitchen easy. The places we go back to, from Dickenson Bay.
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The dry season, the quiet season, hurricane season on paper, the sea temperature every month, and the dates that fill the island: Christmas, Sailing Week, Carnival and every Sunday at Shirley Heights.
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The beach outside our door: why the water is so calm, where to eat with your feet in the sand, what the day looks like from the terrace, and how Antigua Village fits into the bay.
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Antigua says it has a beach for every day of the year. You'll stay on ours most days; these are the ones that earn a drive, with times from the village and what to bring.
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Seven days that mix the beach outside the door with the best of the island: a boat day, the Dockyard, a Sunday at Shirley Heights, two beaches worth the drive, and enough nothing.
ReadA beachfront villa and two garden studios at Antigua Village, on the beach you just read about.