Category Archives: Martinique

TripAdvisor has just named Martinique the #1 emerging travel destination for 2021 and it was the only Caribbean island to place in the top ten.  Right now, Martinique is only open to members of the EU, but once the vaccine becomes wide spread, you can bet that it will become the top travel hot spot….

Political History Martinique, a small island in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, possesses a long and complex history. Columbus visited the island in 1502 on his fourth voyage, but Spain didn’t seem interested. The island remained un-colonized until 1634 when a Frenchman named Pierre Bélain Sieur D’Ensambuc started a colony on the island. He…