Fort Burt Hotel Road Town

... I am unable to comment on the quality of the sushi itself because the whole experience was completely soured by the offensive and obnoxious host/owner, a Scot called Alan. Honestly, this man needs a crash course in customer service - he is downright rude, and unless somebody can give me a very, very good reason to make a return visit, I shall not! It's a real shame because I believe he could have made a really good go of it.

... goes wrong, needs attention or if you need assistance, she is right there to address whatever comes up straight away. As a result, you have more of a five star hotel experience than a rental experience. Mariel is terrific and truly happy to help with whatever you need. For instance, we sent a shopping list ahead and she stocked the kitchen and bar for us prior to our arrival; allowing us to head straight to the beach instead of ...

... visiting this wonderful island. What a huge disappointment that this morning, I wasn't feeling well enough, otherwise, I sure would have loved to tour St. Thomas by visiting other sites. <br><br>In its place, the day was used to simply rest. I did adventure out of my room to the sun's deck where I enjoyed a relaxing afternoon under the sun's rays for a good provision of vitamin D. Had lunch at the Caribe cafe where the buffet style lunch was again ...

... jumping all around the place, snapping pictures here and there of these natural wonders. Of all of the BVI's, these big huge boulders can only be found here, on the Virgin Gorda island. Nobody can explain why. <br><br>After Mi had enough of swimming, we explored the secluded natural passages of the boulders. It was fantastic. Water rising in between the boulders, the bright sunny sun smiling at us, the beautiful blue sky with cottony white ...

... ocean, while the beaches on the southern coast skirt the Caribbean Sea. English is the official language and the total island population is 56,000. <br><br>We boarded an open-air safari bus and traveled along Skyline Drive. It was refreshing feeling the warm breeze on our faces. It was also wonderful traveling on a safari bus. Along the way, we stopped to admire the harbour of Charlotte ...

... a wooden post at Billy Bones, a beach bar that later changed names and is now called Pirates. Next day we made our way East beating into a 15 knot wind and zig-zagging up the Drake Channel where we arrived for lunch at Machioneel Bay. And what an incredible scenery it was! We could see a white sand beach studded with palm trees... just like our sailing dreams. There was no doubt about being in paradise! After lunch we continued on to Marina Cay and took a ...

... Dutch and half French, but there's been no real border since the 1900's when the two sides decided to work together even though they have different ruling countries. It was hard to get good pictues from the bus, but we did stop at a beach on the french side called Boo Boo Jam (I don't know why). We were served as much rum punch ...

... by Moorings rep, and took a van to the base. Shared the van with a woman who was delayed almost 24 hours due to a medical emergency on her Friday flight out of SFO.<br><br>Saw Mum immediately upon arrival at Moorings. They had just been allowed on board the Dutchess, so we joined them. The base was extremely crowded -- tons of people leaving today (my theory is a lot were supposed to leave yesterday but their flights were delayed.) <br><br>Spent the next several hours doing the usual ...

... rest of our party arrived, so we went shopping at the little convenience store for essential liquids which had been taken from us at the Orlando airport when they refused to check our baggage. After a couple hours of waiting in the check-in area, one of the staff ladies took pity on us and let us go onto the boat early, even without Uncle Greg there to sign all the papers. :) Our boat, No Horizon, was a 51-footer with 5 ...

... goalie. His team won 13 to 7. Jake was awesome. I don't want to leave. But I want to see Daddy even more. I can't wait until we get back to the boat, our home. Here is a picture of us in Seattle with Jake and Keegan, Auntie Kyna, and Daddy's cousin Phyl and her grandsons. We went to the Seattle center to play. We went for a bumper car ride that was really bumpy and fun. We went to an old fashion 1950's burger joint for supper. They had jukeboxes that you put money in ...