The Barbados Tourism Authority recently unveiled a number of exciting initiatives aimed at offering new and innovative travel experiences based on cultural heritage, food, community, adventure, voluntourism, genealogy and even astro-tourism (the Harry Bayley Observatory in Bridgetown is the only observatory in the eastern Caribbean).  Some of the new programs include Speightstown Sizzlin’, a town 11 miles north of the capital of Bridgetown on the west coast where your family can take part in the Saturday night fish fry, the Holetown Heritage Walking Tour, a town eight miles north of Bridgetown that features tours with characters in period costumes and reenactments of historical events; and Breezin’, which will offer visitors the chance to have family dinners with the local Bajans, make pottery with local artisans and sample and make typical island specialties at community gatherings.