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Barbados Is an Island That’s Filled With Cool Things to Do Right Now, From Mangrove Boardwalks to Rum Beach Clubs to Fish Cakes

Barbados has quietly become the most interesting island in the Eastern Caribbean to spend a week of daytime hours. Its newest attraction is a wetland that spent nearly two decades closed to the public, and its most talked-about rum experience comes with a private stretch of sand attached. There is a reason the island keeps landing on best-of lists having nothing to do with hotels. Barbados is stacking up things to actually do — mangrove boardwalks, distillery decks, underground caverns, open-air food gardens and roadside fish cake tents that have become destinations in their own right. A...