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Article: Punch and Jerry; (1) TravelMail (2) Grenada, 20 years after the Americans invaded, is fast becoming a retreat for celebrities. Oliver Bennett tested the water...
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 15, 2003
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Byline: OLIVER BENNETT
THIS autumn, Grenada commemorates a grave anniversary: 20 years since the American invasion. Although I can remember it as the time when Culture Club were No 1 in the charts, it seems like ancient history. Can it really have happened?
As I walk around the charming, colourful, tumbledown capital St George's - something like a harbour from the West of Ireland transported to the tropics - the only thing that destroys the feeling of calm lassitude is the local, pedal-to-floor, driving style.
I sip a cold Carib beer in the Nutmeg pub and watch a quayside pageant of sunburned yachties, American cruise ship shoppers and ...