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Article: Dance with a complete stranger? I'd love to! Life is a carnival in vibrant St Lucia - an island throbbing with Caribbean charm.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2009
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Byline: by Frances Hardy
THERE'S something about a Caribbean carnival that induces even the most buttoned-up of Britons to abandon their inhibitions.
As the procession pauses beside us, we applaud decorously and suddenly, before I can object, I'm sucked into the eddy of swirling bodies by a cheeky St Lucian with a bare torso and a spangly loincloth.
For a few giddy minutes I'm no longer an observer, but a participant in this joyful, noisy parade and dancing with a stranger.
These are the special moments of a holiday: when you feel not so much a tourist in an alien land as a welcomed guest.
St Lucia's carnival clogs the streets ...