For the Jamaican-born massage therapist Shernette, the reason she has spent the past 18 years on Virgin Gorda is simple: “Every day is like Sunday.” Mid-treatment in Rosewood Little Dix Bay’s hilltop spa, with just the coo of turtle doves and the murmur of the Caribbean Sea below to distract me, I can’t contest that idea. At Virgin Gorda’s best-known resort I have already been lulled into a lazy routine of reading, grazing and sunbathing on the half-mile-long beach, a perfect British Virgin Islands custard-coloured crescent encased by forest. It is blissfully slow-paced and stress-free. SponsoredHowever, for hotel workers life on Virgin Gorda and the other 14 inhabited isles among the BVIs’ 60-odd rocky outposts has been too quiet of late. In 2017 the British

Source: The Times July 14, 2021 15:56 UTC