For a bona fide beach-a-holic like myself, time spent away from the sand on a Caribbean vacation is merely an interlude until my next sandy sojourn. But on my recent trip to St. Kitts I got a chance to check out Brimstone Hill, which it just happens to be one of the forts we covered in our August + September issue ("Towers of Power"). And it was well worth the trip, if only for the sweeping views of nearby Nevis and Statia. We spent an hour or so wandering the grounds of the fort (the only man-made UNESCO World Heritage site in the Eastern Caribbean, BTW), checking out where the soldiers ate and slept, and managed to pop into the gift shop to peruse the tacky magnets and postcards. If you can tear yourself away from the beach on your next trip to St. Kitts, make time for the fortress too — and if you wouldn't mind, I forgot to get that magnet.
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For a bona fide beach-a-holic like myself, time spent away from the sand on a Caribbean vacation is merely an interlude until my next sandy sojourn. But on my recent trip to St. Kitts I got a chance to check out Brimstone Hill, which it just happens to be one of the forts we covered in our August + September issue ("Towers of Power"). And it was well worth the trip, if only for the sweeping views of nearby Nevis and Statia. We spent an hour or so wandering the grounds of the fort (the only man-made UNESCO World Heritage site in the Eastern Caribbean, BTW), checking out where the soldiers ate and slept, and managed to pop into the gift shop to peruse the tacky magnets and postcards. If you can tear yourself away from the beach on your next trip to St. Kitts, make time for the fortress too — and if you wouldn't mind, I forgot to get that magnet.
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