{"id":42,"date":"2019-03-31T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-06-08T22:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T02:59:59","slug":"long-weekend-in-st-kitts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/31\/long-weekend-in-st-kitts\/","title":{"rendered":"long weekend in st. kitts!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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st. kitts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

in march, ann and i decided on short notice (ie. late the night before) to burn some of our hard earned airline and hotel points and fly to st. kitts for three nights! it was a very good decision! we got in late and stayed the first night at the island’s only budget hotel, located in a crumbing colonial boarding house in the suburbs of the capital, basseterre. the host was a super nice dreadlocked guy who has met nearly every country-counter in the world, as his is the only cheap place to stay on the island. the next day we explored basseterre and ate some to-go fish for lunch in the main square, before heading to our points-redemption prize for two nights, the marriott! it was great as one would expect a marriott on the beach in st. kitts to be, though be prepared to eat off-site if you are on anything resembling a budget. this is not hard as there are some great barbeque joints along the beach.<\/p>\n

st. kitts and nevis is famous for a few things – it is the smallest country in the western hemisphere, and offers citizenship to anyone from anywhere if they make a large investment in the country. the island of st. kitts is shaped like a cricket bat. just to the south of it is the smaller volcanic island of nevis (pronounced neevus, like a mole), which interestingly has a nascent independence movement of its own, and was the childhood home of alexander hamilton, one of america’s founding fathers. it was also the home of frances nesbit, a plantation widow whose allure inspired the british naval legend horatio nelson to sail the 90 km from his base in antigua with regularity, so the story goes. i went on a glorious run to the top of a hill near the marriott for amazing views over nevis. great weekend!<\/p>\n

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welcome to st. kitts!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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gotta eat! basseterre, st. kitts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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st. kitts marriott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

in march, ann and i decided on short notice (ie. late the night before) to burn some of our hard earned airline and hotel points and fly to st. kitts for three nights! it was a very good decision! we got in late and stayed the first night at the island’s only budget hotel, located … Continue reading “long weekend in st. kitts!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saint-kitts-and-nevis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toewstravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}