The British Virgin Islands has more holidays than just about anyone else. You can guarantee that all the beaches today a hopping with folks just having a good time & limin' in the sunshine!
We've been sailing in the U.S. & British Virgin Islands for almost two decades. Many times we've been asked about how Christopher Columbus
named the Virgin Islands during his second voyage in 1493. Below is a fascinating excerpt from Wikipedia...a story neither of us have ever heard!
St. Ursula was a Romano-British princess who, at the request of her father King Donaut of Dumnonia in south-west England, set sail to join her future husband, the pagan Governor Conan Meriadoc of Armorica (Brittany), along with 11,000 virginal handmaidens. However, a miraculous storm brought them over the sea in a single day to a Gaulish port, where Ursula declared that before her marriage she would undertake a pan-European pilgrimage. She headed for Rome, with her followers, and persuaded the Pope, Cyriacus (unknown in the pontifical records), and Sulpicius, Bishop of Ravenna, to join them. After setting out for Cologne, which was being besieged by Huns, all the virgins were beheaded in a dreadful massacre. The Huns' leader shot Ursula dead, supposedly in 383 (the date varies).
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