Bath, St Kitts-Nevis was the last of our international Baths. The tiny Caribbean nation - the smallest nation in the Western Hemisphere, trivia fans - includes the village of Bath, a creation of white settlers (i.e. slave-owning imperialists) in the 1700s. The Bath Hotel here was a very fashionable resort with Europeans in the 1770s and 1780s - Nelson was a famous local resident at this time - but is now a dilapidated shell housing a few goats. Just below it is the hot springs after which the place was named, and very hot the water is too (45 degrees, enough to turn my bum the same pink as my shoulders and nose instantly became in the searing tropical sun).

The village is home to 800 or so people in their coral-coloured shacks. That's not an official figure because there isn't one, and - this is true - when we asked people what the population was, they started to count people they knew in their head one by one. Bath is a friendly little place where we chatted to several folks and even got invited in to a local home for a splendid lunch (thanks to Bernadette Hezekiah).

A comforting thought: Nevis is so small that addresses here consist simply of the person's name, the village, and 'Nevis, West Indies'. And to find the chap who signed our Bath Book, the Acting Premier and Vice-President the Hon Earl Malcolm Guishard MP, who is also Minister for Agriculture, Tourism, Land and Housing, we just looked him up in the phone book and asked when it was convenient to pop round...