Life in Barbados (right)

Description

As we drive around the island of Barbados, we get some glimpses of everyday life. We pass many fields of sugar cane, which has been an important crop since the 1600s. The cane juice is boiled in large vats to make sugar and molasses; the molasses is used to make rum. We also see a flock of Barbados Blackbelly sheep, which do not produce wool but provide a popular source of meat.
Housing on the island is varied, from old cottages in varying states of repair, modest farm homes, new low-income housing, to multi-million dollar homes in new areas such as Lion Castle Polo Estate. We see a number of churches, including St. Thomas Parish Church (Anglican), established in the 1600s and rebuilt in 1836, and Holetown Methodist Church, dating from 1912.
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