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Travel Blogs from Baie Nettle
International Island
... cruise and cargo ships; the French side can only handle smaller ships and yachts. Both sides have lots of steep hills and beautiful ocean views. You get a good view of several other islands from the French side; not so much from the Dutch side. They even have different oceans: the Dutch side mostly faces the Caribbean and the French side mostly faces the Atlantic. There are several nice beaches, but the main draw is ...
Day 13
... br> That evening, I headed to La Savane for the kids bball practice, where Robenson was having them do shooting drills. I added in some passing drills and a 5-pass match (pass-5-times-before-you-shoot game) before we ended the practice with a free throw shooting drill from my high school days, the one with sprints for those who know. As I was about to leave La Savane, Felix (from Sunday morning bball) ...
Day 10
... Pashon. They had seen me doing yoga on the court before and just started doing it themselves. I was more than pleasantly surprised and cheerfully ran over to them with my camera…my little yogis in the making.
Pashon walked back to Grand Case with me and on the way, we ran into Devin’s fisherman friend Nicholas. I had met Nicholas a few days earlier on the street and Devin introduced him as his cousin. Nicholas surprised me with his lack ...
My hurricane emergency plan: Avoid the hurricanes
... on any greater trip. And I also wanted to relax and maybe work a bit freelance with my IT-skills for people back in Denmark, and get my hands dirty with code again – before I completely forget how a keyboard works.
However, more than one person has strongly advised me to leave the island as soon as possible to avoid any hurricanes, even if it means going on my own, as a fairly inexperienced sailor.
At the time of writing I am looking for another ...
Lots of Work on the Yacht
... an attempt was made to halt this downward trend by making the island completely duty-free. The strategy worked and Sint Maarten became the Caribbean’s number one shopping destination.
Today it thrives, hosting about a million visitors annually. Hotels are everywhere, cruise ships call daily, and there are many hundreds of duty free shops and restaurants as well as over a dozen casinos. The current boom has created so much work that many cruising yachts-people ...