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GoldenEye, Firefly & Bond Country: Jamaica's Literary Coast

James Bond was born in Jamaica. Not in a London boardroom or a Hollywood studio, but at a simple wooden desk inside a low-slung bungalow on the north coast of St. Mary Parish, where the trade winds blow through louvred windows and the Caribbean stretches out in every shade of blue the eye can process. Ian Fleming called the estate GoldenEye. Between 1952 and 1964, he sat at that desk every January and February and wrote all fourteen Bond novels. The world got a suave British spy. Jamaica got...

August 11, 20255 min read
Culture & Experiences

Private Transfers to Oracabessa & Boscobel, St. Mary

Oracabessa is where Ian Fleming sat at his desk overlooking the Caribbean and gave the world James Bond. But this stretch of St. Mary's coastline was extraordinary long before 007 made it famous. Private lagoons tucked behind mangrove-lined shores. Working plantations where nutmeg, coconut, and banana still grow in the shadow of old estate houses. A coast that feels like Jamaica's best-kept open secret -- because, for the most part, it still is. If you are heading to Oracabessa, Boscobel, or...

August 4, 20255 min read