Where to stay on Nevis? I want to be not in the isolated , luxury resort but close to the local life. Pinney’s Beach resort is on the outskirts of the town, at the beginning of the beach. They make refurbishment, but this gave me to negociate down the room price.
Charlestown with its small houses retained a lot of colonial charm. Friendly tourist office just in fronnt of the ferry dock will give you a set of brochures and maps including the description of their heritage trail. It starts at Fort Charles. The ruins there are overgrown by the lush vegetetion. A lot of flowers around… Then you can see old Baths Hotel (there are hot sptings below), Jewish cemetary and Queens House – now the hospital. In the evening I attended as the only tourist in the crowd of black locals the great event – christmas tree lighting ceremony on the little city square (everything is litte here). There were singings, speaches of the pastors (many ofvthem on the small island) but I loved most the music performed by the steel drum band. Oh, these young black ladies in the red shirts gave me a lot of pleasure…
