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San Juan: Visit to El Morro Fort and Old San Juan
... ; I wondered as I walked past each monument who were the people buried here and their history. They must have been notable Puerto Ricans. We then proceeded to the Old San Juan shopping section which was one block away. The area ...
Embarkation day for 14 days Princess Cruise
Dear Blog, Today is embarkation day. We are supposed to be picked up at this hotel this afternoon at 2:00pm to be driven to the pier. We had breakfast at Burger King around 7:30am and then, having no planned activities for the ...
Konik morski and Thanksgiving
POLSKI: Rano spedzilam w galerii. O 12tej ja i Ben mielismy wolne, na 7 godzin. Dawno nie opuscilam statku w tak ekspresowym tempie! Bylo upalne poludnie, a my udalismy sie na zwiedzanie miasta. Poszlismy w przeciwna strone niz ja ostatnio i jednym z ...
A very, very quick visit to Vieques!
... boats are. Im the one who's driving. Then the heavy rain pours...(just for 15 minutes). While driving the highway, i noticed Puerto Rico is so urbanized island, very developed. The road is ok, though theres a traffic light in the highway! which ...
Mona Passage, nbd.
... on without issue the rest of the evening. We did feel a bit of an increase in swell as we came around the edge of Puerto Rico, but in general, Pepé kept us cruising in the right direction. As the morning progressed, it was possible to see many more ...
Operation Jake & Amy Preparation, Vol. 1
... drive to the WalMart if, for some bizarre reason, we get the desire to do so, but Salinas has the small town Puerto Rican flavor we have been waiting for. Narrow streets, chickens wandering around, and brightly painted houses. I love it. ...
THE ORANGE FESTIVAL
18 We stayed at home today, read, relaxed and puttered around. At 4 we went for a walk down to the ocean. It wasn't too hot. We noticed something digging a hole. It reminded us of the prairie dogs at the zoo back home. We ...
A break from the cold
... WOW, what a shitty intro! Ha-ha such an attention grabber… Anyways, I feel great right now. Arrived here to Puerto Rico at 5:30 this morning and a really good swell is hitting tomorrow. But before I begin to babble about waves, let ...
Arriving in San Juan
... taking advice from the hotel and some guidebooks we decided to hire a car so before going to bed I booked a four day hire online. Apparently Puerto Rico has almost no public transport and so if you want to get around at all you need a car. On the upside I ...
BEACHES, MORE SUNSHINE AND ICE SKATING!
February 2, We are up and off just before lunch, we go past Jobo beach and have a look at Montones Beach, watch a chap out kite boarding, look at a shallow beach area that is protected by the big rock or Montones. There are beach cottages here and a we ...
Flight to San Juan
Merry Christmas! Cold and clear. We woke, showered, breakfasted, loaded the car, and rushed off to catch the 07.59h train - only to discover that the first train of the day did not come until 08.19h! Oh well, a delay, but we had debated taking the later ...
San Jaun
The sun was peaking over the horizon as The Triumph glided into the harbour of San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was yet another hour later before yours truly made their appearance. Thankfully, this time w/o the hassle of customs. They made their way down the ...
ANOTHER NIGHT FROM HELL
March 7 We did laundry, cleaned house and then worked on our reply to the Swiss Government. Oops, back in 2009 we stayed too long in the Schengen Zone. The Schengen Zone encompasses most of the member countries of the EU and a couple ...
Always with the hurricanes
... a week prior and reported great weather and fantastic snorkeling. But we arrived in the aftermath of Hurricane Tomas, which didn't hit Puerto Rico, but which was hanging around offshore for most of the week bringing rain and high seas to the island. We ...
They made it!
Jake and Amy arrived into San Juan at 05:00... Pete and I went to bed at 01:00... It had already been discussed that they would not be expecting us at the airport right at 05:00, but it was a good thing they called us at 05:40, just to see what our ...
OUT VISITING, CASINO AND IN THE BACK YARD
Nov 10 We are off to Boqueron, the south west side of this area to see Sally and Cliff. We met them here, and now they have moved south for a week before they go back to Wisconsin. We go through the Cabo Rojo area, did a bit of touring (when ...
CRAZY GUYS MAKING LONG JUMPS!
LAS CATARATAS of San Sebastian We are going to see a waterfall that is off down the road inland. I will include directions at the end. We had heard about this place from the surfers and how great it was to explore. We headed off after ...
Will Work 4 Rum
... so we decided to make a move. Amy had been snooping around on her iPhone and had discovered a marina on the east coast of Puerto Rico; if the run to Vieques, again, proved unsuccessful, we had a bail out spot. We got underway, and Pete and ...
FUN IN THE SUN
March 4 - Today we went back to Aguada Beach and found lots of sea glass. Played in the water and the waves. We went back to the car, changed. The women's washroom was open so I went in to change as a man came out. I looked at the ...
Travel day home
... me 3 times as long as it should to get over things. I have been a fool for a pretty face and notions of love. Goodbye Puerto Rico. Hasta luego. 5ish... There is a couple here on the plan with a child. They haven't said one word to each other or ...
This is where I leave you
Didn't update until now on my departure as my best friend Natalie just got engaged and I wanted to surprise her - success! But I departed Hejira from Vieques in need of some home and family time and some replenishing of the funds. Can't ...
LOST & FOUND GETTING AROUND & FAIRY SPARKLES
... . This phenomenon occurs only in tropical areas, typically in mangrove-protected bays such as the one found here at La Parguera. Puerto Rico is the only place on the planet that has three sites where you can depend on this phenomenon to occur every ...
Not worth the mess...
... our level of tiredness and the fact that it would be our first transit with the new crew aboard, we decided to just head for Puerto Patillas, a little anchorage 17 nautical miles along the coast. We got dinner cleaned up, and I threw on a pot of coffee. ...
Building Castles in the Sand
... dinghy onto the beach and went for a dip. After the cloudy water of the Dominican Republic and the main island of Puerto Rico, the clear water of Vieques is quite the treat. While not as ridiculously crystal clear as the Bahamas and the Turks ...
LISTENING TO OUTER SPACE THEN DOWN TO THE CAVES
Feb 7 We went to Crash Boat Beach today early, about 11 a.m. The water was calm so I went in with Len's help. He does get very frustrated with me. The motion of the waves, especially when they go back out brings back memories of Ste. Maarten ...
FRESH, LOCAL AND ORGANIC MARKET IN AGUADILLA
On the first and third Saturday of each month there is a market in Aguadilla just down the road from El Maison, turn right and it is on the left hand side. The Contact info is at the bottom. You can also pre-order or bulk purchase and it goes ...
St. Patricks
... , very bright, hiding behind small clouds occasionally. No other boats were spotted. Vieques slipped by slowly, and Puerto Rico increased in size. Grady lost overboard a crucial part of the coffee percolator, rendering us all useless. In ...
A DAY AT THE BEACH!
There is a very big Iguana who lives in this area. He or maybe she walks along the wires that go across the back of the property. Apparently s/he has been around for sometime and makes his way across the property on the wires, sometimes ...
THE MARICAO COFFEE FESTIVAL
SATURDAY OUTING, we are up and on the road just after 9! We are going to Maricao to the Coffee Festival. Maricao is a small town up in the mountains, where the coffee is grown and processed. We did a bit of touring, normal for ...