You cant get anywhere near Plymouth today but you can get a tantalising glimpse of it from several points on the island ; if you have £190 to spare, you can take a helicopter tour from Antigua. However, you can visit what used to be the nine-hole golf course and my driver offers to take me there. Other than the silvery-grey skeletons of almond trees, it looks like the sort of place Captain Kirk would be beamed up from after finding no signs of life. I pick up a small piece of pumice and put it in my pocket. Then I notice that piercing the monochrome is the red tiled roof of a bungalow. But it isnt a bungalow its a three-story house.
Not surprisingly, the islanders prefer not to dwell on the bad times. They would rather point to all the positive things the island has to offer. Its one of the safest islands in the Caribbean, for example, with little crime or drug-abuse and an old-fashioned, almost Fifties way of life . Its tap water is some of the purest in the world. It has a dazzling new Cultural Centre , a new airport, a new airline that flies between Montserrat and Antigua, and one day it will have a new capital at Little Bay.
My driver, who has lived on the island all his life and who claims to make the best Goat Water on Montserrat, shrugs and says you just get used to living under a live volcano. He pulls over and tells me to get out and drink from a spring by the side of the road. It means you will return to Montserrat one day, he says.
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