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10 Caribbean islands with direct flights

Times Online: "The Caribbean should be like apple pie and custard – warm, just slightly spicy and utterly undemanding. Ideally, holidays there involve nothing more strenuous than flying and flopping – and an easy flight, at that. You want to swap grey skies for blue seas in half a day, thanks. You don’t want to spend 18 hours clambering from jumbo jet to seaplane to motorboat to taxi, finally arriving at some tropical hideaway only to find that it’s still a 10-minute trudge from the beach. "

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