Willemstad
Travel Blogs from Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles
a wallet thinner
... bring her a meal if they keep holding her, suddenly they just let her go ! We first stayed at Estorli hotel, in Willemstad, it cost a whopping $60usd a night for a windowless room, incl. Aircon, ensuite and tv.. But it was apparently the cheapest hotel ...
Things (once again) do not work out as planned
At 07h40, I am at my computer. A knock on our door at 9h. I give the man his car back, when he says; why don't you keep it another day, free of charge, I do not need it. Ooooookeeeeyyyy. We have to bring it to his place (at the west site of the ...
Here Curaçao
... to repeat. We walk through the neighborhood. The resort is great but not in walking distance from the center of Willemstad. We find another supermarket and buy the things we forgot yesterday. Check out the supermarkets in Curacao: Almost ...
Discovering Willemstad
... not manage to buy a newspaper for Dr T!!! The view from the terrace is very nice. This is typical for Willemstad: the multicolored houses. They also have a floating bridge: it is held up by what looks like boats. ...
Hi, Curacao, or not
... step out, Hans from Iguana Inn is waiting for us. He does not take us home but for a little half an hour side seeing tour in Willemstad. It looks great! But then he takes us to: Albert Heijn!!! I get all sentimental by it! Plus; I can buy food, real food, ...
North and East of the Island
I manage to sleep in till 9! Nice mails from nice people, also from my Springmuis: joepie! Starting to answer and even send a couple of mails to my colleagues, the internet crashes, for the first time here, I feel handicapped! It is a router ...
Where Dr T gets a new hairdo and new sloefkes
... .000 Euro Rolex, in a nasty divorce. Hans with his (20 year younger) girlfriend, trying to have a baby, moved here from the Netherlands, less than a year ago. I can imagine: having contact with the guests, who all stay a week or two and then they are gone ...
Big news from Curaçao
... excited and ALL sentimental! I cook a crappy dinner (unlike at noon: verse maatjes: and broodje gezond; after all, we are in the Netherlands) and go to bed early: the emotions! So, now you know: we are coming back, get prepared to party, play cards ...
Not naked today or maybe
When we walk outside, Mark from diving shop 'The Dive Bus' is waiting for us. A very nice guy, the owner, English and a doctor from origin. In the shop, we have a coffee at ease. It think we are waiting for other people but, no, just chatting. We get ...
Midnightswim
... the three so-called ABC islands (for Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) of the Lesser Antilles and belongs to the Netherlands Antilles, a self-governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Curaçao has a land area of 444 square kilometres, population ...
Another shore dive
Mark is on time and we leave for 2 more shore dives. It is again the 3 of us and we dive for more than 2 hours in total! Although we do not see anything out of the ordinary, it is great dives. The second one is my nr. 250!!!! Mark brought lunch, ...
Curacao Surprizes
032910 Curacao: We arrived at the charming and colorful Dutch harbor of Willemstad (Curacao's capital city) early morning. The floating footbridge swung opened to allow the Star Flyer entrance into the harbor canal. We moored alongside the ...
Bon Bini!
"BON bini", "BON dia", "BON noche", Shir's nickname for Gil's seems to be very catchy over here! People are extremely nice and everywhere we go smiles and bon-greetings await us. Maybe the kindness that surrounds us is because of the fact that we are ...
In the Caribbean, man!
... , and is the smallest piece of land which is shared by two nations. The Netherlands are responsible for one half, Netherlands Antilles, and France for the other half, Guadaloupe. The rest of both the Netherlands Antilles and Guadaloupe are located rather ...
Curacao
I stayed for five nights on Curacao, sleeping on the floor of a friend of mine. We had gotten our Scuba Instructor certifications on Utila at about the same time, and he had been working there for the last three years. I island has a lot of people on ...
Christmas and more in Curacao
Spanish Waters, our anchorage in Curacao, became our home base for many weeks. We enjoyed the international ambience with sailors from all over the world. Our friends, the Dariens, joined us for two weeks. We had our sail mended, too. ...
Let the games begin!...
... proper begins so jumped at the chance of a stopover offered by KLM on their flights to and from Quito & Lima in the Netherlands Antilles off the coast of Venezuela. Seemed to be just about the only stopover available en route to South America from Europe ...
Back home in Amsterdam or in Curacao again
Some persons take a flight back home to Amsterdam (or somewhere else) some other continue back home to Curacao. Flight Curacao - Amsterdam - Stockholm - Amsterdam - Curacao is not included in the package. Just convo me for more info. ...
Some of us fly from Curacao to Gothenburg
Some of us start our trip in Curacao. Our Flight: Curacao - Amsterdam - Gothenburg - Kiruna - Stockholm - Amsterdam - Curacao Flight from your home destination and back is not included in the package. Flight Gothenburg - Kiruna - ...
Een mooie tocht van Venezuela naar Curacao
... zijn vooral druk met alle klussen die we gedaan willen hebben voordat we naar Ecuador gaan. Maar we zijn al wel in Willemstad geweest, een grote stad met pastelkleurige pakhuizen langs het water. Zondag gaan we wandelen met Timo en Annemiek van de Blue ...
Country No. 93: Curaçao
... . Though a smaller island, you hear about Aruba much more frequently than Curaçao. Compared to Aruba's Oranjestad, Willemstad resembles the Netherlands even more (except for, of course, its sunny weather). There are canals and drawbridges. There is ...
Una semana espectacular!!
... que van a ser los dias alli en la isla :). tienes que tomar un Taxi que te llevara a la parte norte de la isla (Willemstad) ,solo costara $30. La gente super especial, la comida buena y las playas espectaculares!!! Realmente un viaje que vale la ...
We gaan op vakantie!
... Gelukkig ook hier niets spannends en 3 minuten voor de beoogde vertrektijd zitten we in een half leeg vliegtuig…Op naar Willemstad! Curaçao ligt op een steenworp afstand van Venezuela en een half uurtje later landen we op vliegveld Hato waarna we ...
Curacao and the power of knowledge
Getting back into the gym, and hanging around people getting in shape, led me, by chance, to take a look at the various seminars they were running … so on a whim I decided to go to the Detox and Nutrition sessions … It is amazing what a ...
GEBOEKT!!
Zo... eindelijk is het dan zo ver; naar Zuid-Amerika! Nadat mij een miljoen keer is gevraagd of ik dan al geboekt had, heb ik het dan uiteindelijk gedaan... Enkele reis Amsterdam - Isla Margarita Isla Margarita?? Yup, ondanks dat ik ...
Avoid Curacao
Recently, we got robbed on Curacao. We returned to our apartment from a morning at the university, and two young thugs were in our apartment stealing our things. We chased them away and called the "Polis," who took a leisurely three hours to respond to ...
Moving from Pietermaai
... desperate search for lodgings that were not found in Pietermaai, we wound up in the historic Rif Fort on the waterfront in Willemstad, where the offices of Hans and Margriet Vervoord are located. Hans and Margriet run the Re/MAX office here on Curacao, ...
Bringing you up to speed
So, we have been on the tiny island of Curacao now since the end of December. We came here so that my wife could study at the university here, and while she does that I am working towards getting my undergrad degree finished through Penn State's online ...

