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Change your perspective — starting with the Caribbean
In April this year, when La Soufrière Volcano in St Vincent began to erupt, I was on a call with a client in North America and they kindly asked me how my family was in the Cayman Islands, wondering if they were impacted.
I gently noted to them that the Caribbean is a big place and that Cayman is over 2000km from Saint Vincent, so no, they are not impacted.
Perhaps I could have sent them a link to the wonderfully simple https://www.distancefromto.net/ , which notes that the actual distance is 2254k (or 1400 miles)
From that site, you can see the Caribbean is a big place, plus when you want to travel between islands (back when we could travel), air service between islands often meant long days and travelling via Miami and/or Puerto Rico. For example, Cayman to Barbados is over 2400km, but to get between the countries means flying via Miami, so takes about as much time as flying from London to Cayman (about 12 hours). Oh, and for comparison, Cayman to Barbados is further than London to Athens (2392km) and at least there are non-stop flights between those cities.
