It was memories of a kinder, gentler Caribbean--the one Chris Robinson recalls from his childhood growing up in Jamaica--that led this Englishman to set his sights on home ownership on the tiny Grenadine isle of Bequia (pronounced BECK-way). This five-mile-long dot in the Caribbean continues to cling to a charming, Old-World way of life that has earned it its nickname, "the island that tourism forgot." And that's just the way Chris likes it.

January 2009