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St. Maarten/St. Martin Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Philipsburg, Saint Martin
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Racing In The Americas Cup
This is a top pick! ... be good). Our first race of the day involved a speedy breakfast and a competitive speed walk down the pier and along the road to Philipsburg. Why the need for speed? There were six other cruise ships in town at the very same time as ours. That added up ...
Never Say Never.
This is a top pick! Seven years ago we sat on the beach at Phillipsburg St Maarten and watched the cruise ship passengers pour off five massive cruise ships. We were travelling independently in the Caribbean and vowed that we would NEVER EVER be one of ...
A dutch half that's all in english
This is a top pick! ... flaps are stuck or this guy is contemplating suicide.. after about 15 minutes of seeing the island of statia, saba st.barts and st. martin go passed my window several times the co-pilot anounced that it was pretty busy at juliana airport so we'd be put on ...
St. Maarten
... and of the windy mountain roads were nice. They weren't as nice as St. Kitts though, because St. Maarten/Sint Martin is pretty built up. There are developments and big box stores dotting the mountain side, which detracts quite a bit from the ...
iRep SKN and the beginning of the long way home
... tired, but maybe that is good in that it distracted me from wondering if I made the right decision. The taxi ride to Philipsburg was $18 for 20 minutes, but since no buses were running, I shelled it out. One thing I noticed is ...
Adopted Canadians
... day 7) Show - Rick Starr comedian from Carnegie Hall New York and Las Vegas. Very Funny Wednesday (day 8) Philipsburg in St Maarten. Part Dutch 16 square miles, part French 21 square miles. 80 different nationalities, 11 ...
St. Maarten End Of Voyage
... French sides of the island. We visited a should-not-have-been French nude beach and shopped in tourista French St. Martin. We encountered St. Maarten rush hour with miles of two lane, bumper to bumper traffic seemingly going nowhere. ...
ST MAARTEN-Philipsburg
... and shopping for duty free goods on the mind. OK many lounge on the beautiful beaches and take tours but shopping is big! Philipsburg is a much more attractive and better maintained town than the ports of Barbados, St Lucia and Antigua, and there is a ...
St. Maarten
The island is divided between two countries. The southern portion, Sint Maarten, is Dutch. The northern portion, Saint Martin, is French. We did not go to the French side at all. With a full day of traveling to get to Barbados and two ...
Philipsburg, Saint Maarten
Spent the day doing a snorkeling excursion in the morning. Water was murky and hard to see any fish but the beach was nice. In the afternoon, walked along Front Street to do some shopping before heading back to the ship for dinner and to head ...
St. Maarten. On board our yacht!
... Spectacular. Taxi to the embarkation point at AC Whatey Marina. Check in our two bags and head off towards the boardwalk in Philipsburg. Lunch at Passanggaram Hotel on the beach. Grilled fish and a side salad and homemade lemonade. We can see Star Clipper ...
Rush Hour On The Coastal Freeway
... . Today the island is split in half between France and the Netherlands Antilles. Other than the island’s name (spelled Saint-Martin on the French half), both sides are quite unique. As we arrived in Philipsburg, the capital, we ...
Its the girth
... One looked like a converted Princess ship - but we couldn't be sure. We made it down to the gangway and ventured over to Philipsburg. Same water taxi - $6 per person for the whole day. As we walked through town it started to rain - so we ...
One More Thing Before I Go
As if life weren't complicated enough, in addition to building a new home in Spring City and re-modeling the "cottage" in Spring City, I'm starting work on our home in Aurora to get it ready to eventually sell. Dan has a group of golf buddies ...
An Island of 2 Nations
The Caribbean island of St. Maartin / St. Martin is both Dutch and French. With both nations inside of the EU (and frankly not worrying about much of anything in this dual-province island for years), natives of both descendants cross international ...
May 30, 2010
Schizophrenic St. Maarten
... from the ship to take a local bus. It cost me all of $2 in each direction. Did the obligatory souvenir shopping in Philipsburg market where I dropped off. Walking to the sea front, I appreciated Marigot even more, as the whole promenade exists solely for ...
First visit to St. Maarten
... encompasses the southern half of the Caribbean island, while the northern half of the island is French territory. Its capital is Philipsburg. Before October 10, 2010, Sint Maarten was known as the Island Territory of Sint Maarten, and was one of ...
Phillipsburg, St. Maarten
DAY 48 …… March 5th ……. Philipsburg, St. Maarten St. Maarten (Dutch) / St. Martin (France) This is a tourist mecca ….. and we are not sure why.The beaches on either side of the ‘border’ are white but ...
St.-Martin
... repassant par les rues tortueuses et montagneuses de l'île, traversant des marais de sel et des petits villages. C'est près de Philipsburg, du côté hollandais, que nous quittons le groupe, le coeur léger, en se disants combien on est bien tous ...
Day CS6, Thursday, December 20, St. Marteen
I rose again about 5:45 and walked 1 1/2 miles on deck 11 as we made our way into the harbor, followed fairly closely by the Nieuw Amsterdam and somewhat later by the Freedom of the Seas, making a fairly crowded port. This is my second visit here, ...
Journée en mer
... aux personnes ayant suivi le code vestimentaire de la soirée. Donc filet mignon pour ce soir et ensuite dodo... La route pour St Martin est encore longue: on accoste demain à 10h. Nous sommes chanceux, il n'y aura que deux bateaux de croisière ...
Flight to St. Maarten - Caribbean Island - Holiday
... south side of the Island) it is the smallest island in the world to be divided between two countries. The north is French owned Saint Martin and the south Dutch owned St. Maarten. Great beaches and several mega yachts spotted on the way. Our resort is on ...
St.Maarten week 3
Ok! Week 3! Can you belive I'm here already 3 weeks! I've got a feeling that it's only a week or something! Time is slipping through my fingers, really! Let's start my update then! Well, Tuesday I went with Lindsey and Auchie and a client's to ...
Philipsburg, St. Maarten
Philipsburg, St. Maarten, 3/15/2010 Our second stop on our cruise is Philipsburg, St Maarten. We booked a butterfly farm/Beach excursion here and was glad we did. After shopping for souvenirs, we head back to the ship to prepare for our excursion. The ...
Ocean swimming @ St. Maarten & Story time w. Dora
Today... was a good day! It was our first port stop, and we finally found water wings for the girls. Quite gourmet, and they love them. AND... today was our first successful trip to the ocean with the girls, where they actually ...
Nerding Out In The Caribbean
I apologize for taking so long to write this next blog. I’ve been busy, not with work, but busy hanging out with all of the new friends I’m making. I’ve finally started to hang out with people more. ...
Week 4&5
Well those two weeks were pretty busy! Didn't have much time to write an update on my well being:PI worked a lot in the evenings also during the weekends! And besides I HAD to go out, ok actually I wanted to. By the way, one more comment from someone ...
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