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Pages THE HERALD Saturday February 10 Travel Outlook Fish can fly on island of Barbados by Pete McGarvey Most countnes have a national animal or bird In Canada we have the beaver while the S features the bald eagle Barbados is the only nation I know of with a national fish The Flying Fish turns up on coins and stamps as well as on the menu of virtually every restaurant on the island The size of a small Ontario perch with a smile on its face and two enormous fins to propel it over the waves the Flying Fish stands for something colorful and carefree in the char acter Every visitor succumbs quickly to its charms and its taste Always fresh its tender flesh delights whether pan fried broiled poached used in a salad or served as an appetizer steeped in sauces and man One restaurant featuring Flying Fish is the legendary Atlanus located high above ihe Atlantic Ocean Enid Maxwell was the country leading do mesne science teacher when she dropped everything years ago to start an eatery at Bathshcba She is sull there greeting diners from around the world who have been lured to this uny vil lagc by reports of melt your mouth native meals Other spc at Atlantis include chicken and fish entrees exotic ironical and pies and tarts the recipes of winch she won t reveal for love nor money Cunard family estate plays host to the rich and famous as well as those that wish they were A bank of apartments situated north of the main building is reserved for very special guests who pay up to 3 per night Paul McCartney may or may not have been in during my week long stay Flying Fish can also be found on the menus at The Royal Pavilion Resort located on the Caribbean coast The former as Manager Julia Seymour told me that there is a long wailing list for the units and the guests privacy is respected at all times For those of us on not quite so grand a budget there are pack ages available Thomson Holidays that include round trip airfare transfers and a 7 night stay in a Junior Suite with breakfast and dinner daily As a member of the Elegant Resorts of Barbados Royal Pavilion guests can dine around at the other properties on the island via the Platinum Club card Between up sunshine and seeking out new places to cat there are many other things to do and see in Barbados You can explore the bottom of the Caribbean aboard the At lantis submarine where every one becomes a fledgling Spend some time roaming the incredible corridors of Harrison Cave or visit the Bar Wildlife Reserve founded by Canadian naturalist Jean Baulu Then there are the cruises aboard the Queen the island s famed party boat Captain Mark Jones was a top salesman for a Canadian com puler firm before his move to the Barbados capital of Bridge town Now he is on the water an average of hours a week having exchanged our gray win tcr skies for the multi colored Caribbean Sea There is an open bar aboard the Queen disco speakers jacked to car splitting levels and a barbecue buffet that Tanks about the best I have pled And there sure enough in five different versions the Flying Fish You just can t get enough of a good thing Quebec carnival solves February blues What can be done about February Two things Complain about the interminable cold and darkness of a Canadian winter Or join in the explosion of fun and games that s called the Quebec Winter Carnival Quebec City in the first days of February becomes a kind of snowy New Orleans parades and parties hoedowns and hockey tournaments curling bonspiels and canoe races Carnaval Quebec to give it its proper name attracts in excess of visitors each February thus more than doubling tern the population of the pro vincial capital For most spectator the highlight is the exciting race of some 25 boats across the frigid St Lawrence River from Quebec City to Levis and back a 3 test of strength and skill for the fiveman crews Then there are the axethrowing and log sawing contests among lumberjacks the international hockey tournament at the arena ski events and the like Too strenuous Then conserve your energy by viewing the reted ice castle at the Place Palais the snow sculptures there and elsewhere throughout Quebec City and the two mammoth after dark float parades and fireworks displays HISTORIC CITY Like New Orleans Quebec City has always clung to its history In Quebec s case of course it would be difficult to ignore history The walls the battlements the for gates the narrow streets the ancient seminaries and public buildings all of these are constant reminders of a colorful past and of romantic links with Old France What could give more pleasure to the history buff than to stay in the 97 yearold Chateau site of wartime con attended by Mackenzie King Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt To be honest staying in one of the Chateau s renovated river view rooms facing Terrace would provide the history buff with more pleasure than the not yet renovated but lower priced rooms A little shorter on history and tradition but long on creative com forts is the handsome Hilton Inter national Quebec outside the walls of the old town The Museum of Civilization new integrates three historic buildings to house its intriguing ex highlighting Quebec society and culture It joins the list of Quebec City s other popular museums the Museum of the Fort with its diorama of six sieges of the city the Museum of the whose convent was opened in and the Museum of the Quebec Seminary notable for its displays of siWerware NOTEBOOK Here are notes on news of cur rent interest to travellers St Boniface adjoining Win will be staging its Festival de Voyageur from Feb to Feb 18 featuring French Canadian singers dancers and other enter tamers One of the highlights is dog sled racing Feb and Air Canada s latest seat sales for travelling during February and March have cut the return fares on the TorontoThunder Bay route to as little as TorontoQuebec City to and on the Toronto- New York service to as low as Certain restrictions apply Throughout February and March the 200room Indian River Plantation on Hutchinson Island at Stuart is offering a counted rate of I S per person per night Opened in the resort has a 500metre Atlantic Ocean beach an 18hole golf course 13 tennis courts and three swimming pools Until Feb the Pnnce rated as one of the best new hotels in Tokyo is featuring a winter tion package at about single and double occupancy dian equivalent including buffet breakfast cocktail taxes and ser vice POSSIBLY THE WORLDS BEST BAR B QUE CHICKEN FRIES HONOLULU SPECIAL 8 5 Complete Quarter Chicken Dinner 232 GUELPH ST 8731646 Available at The Herald Office in either 8x10 or 5x7 Sizes theHERALD St 2201 SPECIAL OFTHEWEEK EVERY THURSDAY HOT ROAST BEEF PLATE I SAVE YOUR BODY NORTH END NISSAN 878 610 Martin St MILTON Campbell House Gallery 115 MAIN ST S GEORGETOWN Above McCarthy Tea Room 8730674 FRENCH FRIES VEGETABLES DELICIOUS Reg 50 MARTYS TOO RESTAURANT Georgetown Market Place CHURCH DIRECTORY WESTERN carpet a BR0ADL00M VINYL 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