I'm in a beach bar on the island of Nevis with Britney Spears, the Duchess of York, Michael Douglas, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kickstand, the beach-chair guy. It's not a dream: everyone except Kickstand is included in the gallery of pictures above the counter, looking blissed out and bleary-eyed.
As the photographs testify, they were all here at Sunshine's once, no doubt chugging "killer bee" cocktails and marvelling at Kickstand's tales about his former life as an accountant and how he got his nickname. The latter story is definitely not for duchesses' ears.
Nevis is a Caribbean island like no other I've visited - hospitable, unhurried, a sort of floating Sussex village with Titian skies and a whopping great volcano in the middle of it.