The allure of Trinidad and Tobago was in Elaine McGowan’s blood. For all the picturesque, windswept charm of the Kent village of Saltwood where she lived and once served locals as the landlady of the Castle Hotel, she dreamed of moving to the twin-island Caribbean nation.
It was the country of her prominent businessman father’s birth and, as the years passed, like her father before her, she hankered after its more relaxed pace of life, the climate, the food and proximity to family.
When her father, George Butcher, died on the island three years ago, leaving behind a thriving coconut farming business, Elaine
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