The Sunday Telegraph
Treasured island
Bequia has no big hotels or golf courses, just empty beaches, lush rainforest and a laid-back approach to life. It's the Caribbean idyll many of us look for but rarely find, says Nigel Tisdall.
I've found it! My perfect Caribbean island! It's friendly, sunny, barely developed, with fresh fish, peaceful beaches, gorgeous scenery - and the local Sunset rum is a whopping 84.5 per cent proof! You can leave London after breakfast and be there for cocktails, and the island's called . . .

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The Sunday Times
Five tiny islands in a connoisseur’s Caribbean
Beautiful things come in small packages: so, this winter, skip the big islands and go petite, says David Wickers
THE LUSHEST of the 30-odd islands that make up the Grenadines, Bequia offers something rare in the Caribbean: you can plug into local life rather than remain cocooned in your hotel. Whether you’re sipping punch in its bars, eating rotis on the Belmont waterfront or simply lazing and limin’ under the big almond tree (known as the “Houses of Parliament”) in the middle of Port Elizabeth, the tiny main town, you’ll be as likely to meet fishermen, seafarers and boat-builders as other tourists. The laid-back experience has more in common with life on a Greek island than it does with many of its neighbours. For what it’s worth, sleepy, titchy Bequia is one of my all-time favourite islands.

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The Sunday Herald
Paradise heights
Untainted by tourists and dancing to its , own tune, Bequia is just the ticket if you're looking for your own island oasis, says Sophie Cooke

THREE thousand miles west of Senegal lies an island called Bequia. Its seven square miles of hills are thick with tropical blossoms and cacti, alive with yellow birds and khaki lizards. It harbours overgrown sugar mills and cattle grazing under palm trees, shady old bars and telegraph wires wreathed in creepers.

It also happens to be Mustique's next-door neighbour: the hippy chick little sister of a glittering prom queen....

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Orlando Sentinal
Another visit to paradise in the Grenadines
Known for a volcano, eco-tourism sites and turquoise waters, these spakling gems are the best of the Caribbean -- simple, sweet and unpretentious - by John Yearwood

TOBAGO CAYS, St. Vincent -- It happens on virtually every visit to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, these sparkling gems in the southeastern Caribbean: I lean back, close my eyes and savor paradise...

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The Guardian
A splash of Grenadines
I am a Caribbean tenderfoot. I've been there a thousand times with Caribbean aristocracy like King Tubby, Prince Buster and Lord Short Shirt, but I've never dipped my toe in the perfect waters or been caressed by the constant breezes. Now I've tasted nature Caribbean style at her five-star best, all I can tell you is GO. Now. Jump on the next flight to Barbados and take it from there...

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Paradise islands
Which are the best islands in the Caribbean? Jill Hartley, who visits the region three or four times a year, chooses her top ten.

Anguilla
Barbados
Bequia...

New York Times
Under Sail Through the Grenadines
Happily, wondrously, Bequia and the rest of the Grenadines are still a little lost. At Spring on Bequia, an inland hotel, a 200-year-old plantation and still a working farm, we got a Flintstonesque, fieldstone-and-wood room with a drop-dead view of hill and sky and sea for $200 a night. You could look around and see virtually nothing that you wouldn't have seen a century ago. The white curtains flapped aggressively into the room with the strong breeze; there was no air-conditioning but none was needed, and there was no phone or television, but that was just as well, no?

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The Spells of a Bright Bequia Morning
By BARBARA LAZEAR ASCHER
MOUNTAINS DENSE WITH CEDARS' GREEN GROWTH RISE out of an indigo sea and stretch toward a sky that is more brightness than color. Beaches, fine grained and golden, lean into black cliffs festooned with vines and determined orchids. Bequia, the largest (seven square miles) of the Grenadine Islands, is a natural beauty, afloat in a time warp nine miles south of bustling St. Vincent.

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