English Harbour

Stays here

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Around here

• Catherine's Café Plage

  restaurant

  French cooking with your feet more or less in the sand, on Pigeon Beach at the mouth of Falmouth Harbour. Long lunches, rosé, and yachts on the water in front of you.

• Cloggy's

  restaurant

  Upstairs at the Antigua Yacht Club in Falmouth, on a deck that looks straight down the masts. The kind of place that fills up with whoever has just come off a boat.

• Galleon Beach

  beach

  Across the water from the dockyard, on the far side of English Harbour, with the ridge of Shirley Heights standing over it. Sheltered, easy to swim, and the only beach on the island where the view is a working yacht harbour.

• Nelson's Dockyard

  activity

  A Georgian naval dockyard that never became a museum piece: the eighteenth-century stone buildings around the quay still serve the yachts moored against it. It is the centre of Antigua's UNESCO World Heritage site, and you can walk the whole of it.

• Pillars Restaurant

  restaurant

  Inside the eighteenth-century fort above Fort James beach, with the tables under the trees on the old rampart. Worth it for the setting and the view back over the bay.

• Shirley Heights

  activity

  The ridge of old gun batteries above English Harbour, and the view that ends up on most photographs of Antigua: both harbours below you at once, full of masts. Go towards the end of the day, when the light comes across the water.