This city was my first real contact with the Caribbean outside of the “La Luna” hotel. I’m talking about the authentic Caribbean, the one that doesn’t appear in guidebooks and that almost no one talks about. Saint George, the capital of Grenada, has a mysterious air and a touch of decadence that capt ...

Arriving at “La Luna” hotel at night was my first contact with the Caribbean. It was raining. A propeller plane, unpainted and in an obvious state of decay, was waiting for us in Trinidad and Tobago. We came from New York, where the scene was completely different. Inside the plane we were about 12 people [&helli