Article: Dance with a total stranger? I'd just love to!(Features)

Byline: by Frances Hardy

THERE'S something about a Caribbean carnival that makes even the most prudish holiday-maker abandon his or her inhibitions.

As the procession pauses beside us, we applaud, and before I can object, I'm sucked into a sea of swirling bodies by a cheeky St Lucian with a bare torso and a spangly loincloth.

For a few giddy minutes I'm part of this joyful, noisy parade and dancing with a stranger. The colours are dizzying, the heat broiling and we all love it.

On our trip are middle-aged Iain and me, plus Amy and her friend Megan, both 17. Finding a holiday to suit four people, with interests as diverse as ours, can ...

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