With this weekend came the unexpected death of one of the most respected and loved ex-patriots on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic. Ginnie Bedggood, alternatively known as ‘Lambada’ on the D.R.1 forums passed away unexpectedly.

I never met her in person, but had many exchanges with her on the forums; the depth of her knowledge and understanding of all things Dominican was astounding. Instead of just living in someone else’s country (as many of us do) in the many years she lived on the north Coast of the Dominican Republic, she appears to have made it her passion to know and understand the country in a way that many of us merely wish we could.

She spent countless hours passing on her wisdom on DR1……….Questions on the forum would be answered by her intelligently, knowledgeably and above all, kindly, even when the questioner was displaying an ignorance that would have made lesser people give up on them. I cried last night when I read that she had died and I never even met her in person. When I read the tributes from her real friends, my heart broke for them and for her partner Grahame with whom she was obviously so very close.

A prolific and entertaining writer, I am sharing the link to her own website GinnieBedggood.com

What a terrible loss for everyone, especially Grahame and her family to whom we send our deepest sympathies. Clare and Jim.

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