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We have returned with a very special piece featuring St. Martin with easy day trips to St. Barts and Anguilla. I have a deep wanderlust and have been traveling extensively for the last 30 years. While I always want to explore new destinations, there are some that are just so special to me that I carve out time to visit them annually.
Two of those places are St. Martin and Croatia. A post shared by AnitaDolceVita anitadolcevita. Martin offers the perfect mix of these things that I seek in a seaside destination. I have visited the island for 15 years, sometimes going twice a year. I decided to create this guide to St. Martin after receiving many requests for St.
Martin recommendations from friends, fellow travelers, and Instagram followers. Martin, St. Barths, and Anguilla. If you watch the Reel on Instagram, the captions will also include some of my favorite spots. First, I have to acknowledge that safety looks different for every person.
As a queer Black American-born cis femme, my safety may look different than other queer and trans travelers who exist at different intersectional identities than me or who may present different than me, such as my partner who is white and more masculine presenting and is sometimes misgendered as male.
I can say with certainty, I feel safe in St. Barths, and Anguilla, sometimes even more so than I do in some places in the United States. I want to address that the Caribbean islands are not a monolith and people really need to do a deeper dive into why they treat them as such. You cannot compare Puerto Rico with St.
Barths, Anguilla with Jamaica, so on and so forth.
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Each island has distinctive cultures, food, music, cuisine, art, and social and political norms. I will get into some of the differences between St. Barths and Anguilla later, but for now, here are some interesting facts:. With an area of only 87 square kilometers 34 square milesit has the distinction of being the smallest inhabited island that is divided between two nations.
The island is divided roughly between the French Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands.