TV star Julia Bradbury heads to the Caribbean for a mother-and-baby break

• Tv presenter heads to the Caribbean looking for a number of days of leisure
• First son, Zephyr, was born in 2011 – so a non-stressful vacation is vital
• Vacation took in St Lucia, in addition to Scrub Island within the British Virgin Islands
  

By Julia Bradbury

Printed: 11:46 EDT, 12 August 2014 | Up to date: 11:46 EDT, 12 August 2014

I have been fortunate sufficient to have travelled quite a bit within the Caribbean, because of stints as a reporter for numerous TV vacation exhibits, together with Want You Have been Right here…? and Tough Information.

On certainly one of my first reporting journeys, I flew to Mustique and sailed via the islands on an 80ft monohull boat.

There’s one thing magical in regards to the Caribbean: being in a ship, pootling round and getting from one island to the subsequent offers you an actual sense of journey.

However now that I’ve a child son, Zephyr, my adventuring days are over for some time. And for my newest vacation I used to be searching for leisure.

So in St Lucia, we stayed first on the Cap Maison Lodge, a stunning resort with a really pleasant ambiance. Its nice services made it excellent for a household break.

Simply superb: Ladera sits on the south-west shore of St Lucia, nearby of the well-known pitons

Then we visited the Ladera Lodge, which is located in a World Heritage Web site overlooking the island’s well-known peaks, the Pitons.

A number of the Ladera’s rooms are utterly open to the weather. You’ll be able to really feel the wind shifting via the rooms within the night.

Merely sensational: The second a part of Julia’s vacation took her to the distant enclave of Scrub Island

You sleep in a really snug four-poster with a mosquito web – it is impossibly glamorous tenting.

And within the morning, you get up to that extraordinary view.

After St Lucia we headed to Scrub Island, a brand new personal island resort a mile off Tortola, the biggest of the British Virgin Islands. It’s gorgeous.

Certainly one of our highlights was a day-trip sail to Cooper Island, an eco-resort well-known for its scuba-diving.

A house from residence: Julia discovered excessive luxurious on Scrub Island – excellent for her first vacation with Zephyr

It introduced residence to me simply what selection you possibly can take pleasure in within the Caribbean.

On St Lucia, there’s a lot to do.

If you wish to hike, you possibly can hike up the volcanoes; if you need watersports, you possibly can take pleasure in all types.

Per week on Scrub Island, nevertheless, is all about staying put and having fun with the quiet. It was simply fantastic being surrounded by that lovely sea and taking in these views.

I might grow to be satisfied lately that the Indian Ocean is the good place to go nowadays. I might forgotten the distinctive allure of the Caribbean expertise.

It simply has a particular attract and I believe it at all times could have.