As promised, some photos of the extraordinarily happy stray dogs of Bequia, the northernmost island in the Grenadines chain.

There was more to it than love at first sight, of course.

To be honest, when I first got out of the cab in downtown Kingstown, here in Saint Vincent, late on Saturday afternoon, I had to keep a firm grip on my positivity. The streets were littered with smashed glass, odd smells, feral-looking dogs that...

It took me less than five minutes to fall hopelessly in love with Bequia. I'd just checked in to my little hotel and was sitting in its open-air cafe, facing the beach and Admiralty Bay. Yachts nodded gently in the water. The wind rattled the palm trees overhead. In the kitchen, the young cook was...