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I’m back from two weeks in sunny Jamaica. My goodness the weather was nice! I spent the first 4 days in Negril, a week in May Pen, then another 4 days in Negril.

Negril is truly beautiful, probably the nicest place I’ve ever been. Sitting on the beach under the shade of a palm tree, reading a novel until the sun set, every day. Sipping blended fruit punch, and eating rice’n'peas with jerk chicken – that was my idea of paradise.

The tourist resort areas of Jamaica were just like a dream. It was only after I visited the heart of the country, the ‘real’ Jamaica, that I understood it really was a dream. A place for us foreigners to go and spend our money, a sheltered illusion of paradise.

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