Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine October 2016 | Page 287

Photo Credit: Sun Lea, Montserrat Island Tours

views of both sea and mountains,
Gingerbread Hill has become that
special place where many world
travelers choose to stay while
visiting this Emerald Isle. And once
they have tasted the fresh spring
water from the magical Runaway
Ghaut, they often find themselves
returning again and again, some to
buy their own slice of this unique
paradise. Living on the island since
1980, now with his wife and their
three young children, Sun has

experienced Montserrat the way
it was, through its transformation,
and now into what it is becoming.
From 1995 -1999 Montserrat
underwent drastic changes, shifting
thousands of people to temporary
housing in the North. Eventually
her people fled to start new lives
in England, North America and
other Caribbean islands. Their
necessarily hasty evacuation has
left a ghost town in Plymouth. This
town is THE modern day Pompeii.
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Not long ago, you might have seen
dining tables still set for dinners
that were never enjoyed. Special
family pictures were left hanging in
people’s homes as those occupants
fled with only the essentials, to
embark on uninvited adventures
into unforeseen and completely
unanticipated futures. Plymouth
is a now but a ghostly reminder of
the once bustling life that thrived in
this capital city not so long ago.