Country Inn St. Eustatius

St. Barthelemy (or St Barths), a magical little island about 2 hours by boat from St. Maarten. Small houses, narrow streets, beautiful surrounding, baguettes, crystal clear water and great food... although it is quite pricey. As it is a French island, people speak French and it has a French touch. Many people go skinny dipping and most women are topless on the beaches.

The island had a bit ...

... so festive and all the stores have a Caribbean flair, i really like it, looks so newer to me. There are different contrast of paint color in each store which made them so pretty and i saw some Kittitian dancers performing in the port's street with their costume and mask on. Again we got our Scenic St. Kitts tour from locals of Basseterre, not from the ship, and just charge us $20 per person. We are only 6 people in the tour van, our tour guide is Leroy a native of ...

... ashore to relax on the golden sand. We tossed up spending a few days here, but we hadn't cleared into St Barts, so we were illegal immigrants and decided we'd just head on through to St Martin, which is only a 15 mile sail. Maybe we could catch the ferry over from St Martin and check it out later. Alas not to be, the ferry was 67 Euro each and we thought not worth it!

... imagine. The island was not the sun kissed exotic caribbean island that we expected, instead it was dark sand and volcanic rock, in fact quite a harsh with only small pockets of lush bush. It is said that there are 30,000 people on the island and 125,000 monkeys which after the boys doing a bit of exploring found out are not too friendly and had to make a quick retreat. Nice but not what we had assumed from the ...

... of the Caribbean Sea. I didn`t have plenty of time,but I hope to go back there and make a trip around the island. The internet is damn expensive there - 2$ for 20 min. The pictures are average quality - neither of us - professional photographers - didn`t bring a camera with him :o), thus Annie was shooting with her mobile phone. Love to everyone.

... chat about cricket, which is no problems as far as I'm concerned. Stopping off at my hotel for a quick shower, I sauntered into Basseterre, about 3 miles away, to check things out. Ostensibly the trip was to source tickets for the game which was on Friday, but it also happened when I got there that the Aussies were still training at the ground, so I sauntered round and watched them for an hour or so.

Landed in St Kitts arond 2PM on 4/30. Hotel is big, plantation style. We received lots of extra high five favors upon arrival including backback with sunscreeen, hat, visors, snacks, etc. I jumped into the Atlantic ocea for the 1st time as our hotel sits on the east side of island. Only 15 min walk to ...

... PADI-duikcursus begonnen. Hij krijgt één les in het zwembad, omdat duiken in zee niet mogelijk is met deze swell. Hij is er superenthousiast over en weet in een paar dagen tijd de hele cursus (inclusief vrij uitgebreid theoriegedeelte) af te ronden! Op zaterdag is de zee weer iets rustiger en kunnen we alsnog naar St. Kitts vertrekken. Onze gasten zijn voor het eerst aan boord van een zeilboot en dan ook nog meteen op volle zee. Zes uur lang aan de wind hakken met ...

Saba was like, the best place I've ever been, in my life. It's a volcanic island and we stayed at El Momo Cottages, which I would HIGHLY recommend. We walked up an old volcano in a rainforest, and met a bunch of interesting people at the cottage. Also, we walked around and picked up some black sand, then we mostly just hung out in the hammock with more Carib beer.

... on a fence and needed to be moved. It was the perfect example of how everyone knows everyone and everyone's business in St. Kitts. We actually drove around the entire circumference of the island (23 miles long by 6.5 miles wide) one night. It was dark, so we didn't see much but we got a sense for the island's small size and close-knit community. The drive was needed after we gorged ourselves on baby back ribs and the biggest lobster tails we'd ever eaten. Despite being served on a ...