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BVI Sailing Adventures: Jost Van Dyke Beaches, Soggy Dollar Painkiller Cocktails, Raft-Up Party in the British Virgin Islands Darlings, if life were a rom-com, this chapter would be the montage where the music swells, the sunsets glow golden, and everyone ends up dancing on a boat until the wee hours. After a heartfelt goodbye to our UK friends (sniff), we hauled up the anchor and set sail for Jost Van Dyke, that gloriously chilled-out gem in the British Virgin Islands where shoes are optional, rum is mandatory, and time seems to forget its schedule. . We dropped the hook first…
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