Anyone looking for an underwater adventure that keeps you dry should head to Jamaica’s second city, Montego Bay, where the “Coral See” vessel awaits at the Margueritaville dock. Board this air-conditioned boat for a cruise with the fishes. Down below you’ll find a comfortable seating area lined with glass windows, giving you a panoramic view of the reefs, aquatic life and inhabitants of the Montego Bay Marine Park. Watch as tropical sea creatures swarm around divers during a feeding.

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The North Cornwall area is home to some of the best beaches in Cornwall, which are perfect for family holidays. There are also some excellent surfing beaches, such as Polzeath and Harlyn Bay.

There are picturesque coastal villages to visit too, such as Port Isaac or Boscastle. The region is easily accessible via the A30, A38 and A39 roads, though the A30 gets heavily congested towards the end of the summer.

Also of interest is the ruined castle at Tintagel, rumoured to be the Camelot of Arthurian legend. For the walker, the coastal scenery is spectacular and inland the north of Bodmin Moor can be
explored, including Brown Willy the highest point in Cornwall.

Sam Sharpe was a slave throughout his life, though he had been allowed to become a well-educated Baptist deacon. Because of his education he was highly respected by other slaves and he became a well known preacher and leader. Sharpe was a Deacon at the Burchell Baptist Church in Montego Bay, whose pastor was Rev Thomas Burchell. Sam Sharpe spent most of his time travelling to different estates in St. James area educating the slaves about Christianity and freedom. In the mistaken belief that emancipation had already been granted by the British Parliament, Sharpe organised a peaceful Genera strike across many estates in western Jamaica at a critical time for the plantation owners: harvest of the sugar cane. The Christmas Rebellion [Baptist War] began on December 25, 1831 at the Kensington Estate. Reprisals by the plantation owners led to the rebels burning the crops, but the slaves did not attack the white population. The rebellion was put down by the Jamaican militia within two weeks and many of the ringleaders, including Sharpe, were hanged in 1832. The rebellion caused two detailed Parliamentary Inquiries which arguably contributed to the 1833 Abolition of Slavery across the British Empire.