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Article: Carriacou Granada's smaller less-known sibling has easygoing charm
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 23, 1994
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1994 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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HILLSBOROUGH, Carriacou -- Like much else on this easy-going
backwater of an island, the takeoff and landing procedures at
Carriacou Airport are very low tech and work just fine.
When a plane is about to arrive or depart, an exciting event that
happens only a couple of times a day, two small boys pedal out on
their bicycles to close the airport gates and shoo the goats off the
runway, part of the island's main road, and the best paved part at
that. The gates reopened, vehicular traffic -- much of it
consisting of passenger-carrying private minibuses -- can resume its
slow and bumpy progress around the 13-square-mile island.
Grenada's much smaller sibling island, Carriacou moves at its own ...
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