Barbados Sailing Week: life on the ocean wave

The Week Portfolio heads to the Caribbean island for the thrills and spills of Barbados Sailing Week

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From the balcony of room 365 at the Barbados Hilton, the view stretches uninterrupted, to the south west. Beyond the point at which the sun disappears behind the sea, promptly, at 6pm, lies Tobago.

Barbados might be known as a Caribbean island, but it sits in the Atlantic. From the so-called Platinum Coast, the sea stretches to St Vincent, while off the east coast lies - nothing. The ocean reaches out across a vast void towards Africa, until after some thousands of miles land is reintroduced at the Cape Verde archipelago.

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