Dominica
I had never heard about Dominica before and maybe it's because it's the youngest island in the Lesser Antilles, and in fact it is still being formed by geothermal-volcanic activity, as evidenced by the world's second-largest hot spring, called Boiling Lake. It's 9 km east of the capital Roseau where my friend Christofer and I went by cruise ship. The country has the fewest visitors of the Caribbean islands, and that was a great thing since I was fed up with the tourist malls in every harbour of all the other islands. Roseau had an authentic feel to it when walking the streets in this picturesque city. It's poor with a charm instead of ghetto poor. The drainage system in front of the houses with many small bridges built in utterly chaos made it look like a poor man's version of Venice. I feel sorry for the natives since it's one of the most poor countries in the West Indies with many people being unemployed, but you couldn't tell as a touri...