Catalonia Gran Dominicus - All Inclusive Bayahibe

No, not marijuana, but the shockingly potent beverage otherwise known as "Dominican Viagra". I will leave you to your own imaginations. We came across this little piece of local life on the second day of our trip aboard a boat. The crew was passing around a very suspicious looking glass jug with God-knows-what stuffed in it (we found out later t...

We spent about ten days in Punta Cana. I've been meaning to write this blog for a while but just finally got to it. To be honest with you, it was probably the worst vacation that I have ever had. Had I known it was going to be that bad, I would have gone to the other side of the island, Haiti.

For starters, we stayed at the RIU Interna...

Since my return to the DR, I have been working very closely with the Rotary Club of Consuelo, as my club in Dartmouth, NS is planning a joint-development project in one of the bateyes near Consuelo. I have gotten to know the club members very well over the past year, and some of them have become my closest friends here. Even though there is a Ro...

I am worn out! We've walked til my feet wanted to fall off my legs in protest, and we've bused til I no longer remembered where we were going. And it's only Day 4 of vacation! The running around, while tiring, has allowed us to see three distinct places in the DR: The capital, Santo Domingo; a small coastal town, Bayahibe; and a city in the moun...

Fui en el autobus a el Parque Nacional del Este. Fui a acampar en el parque y fui a pescar en el agua. Fui a subir en las arboles. Fue a estar fenomenal. Fui a ver los animales. Muchos iguanas en la Republica de Dominicana. La Republica de Dominicana tiene muchos animales. En el Parque Nacional del Este, fui a comer bocadillos.

Fui a ir en el autobus a la Romana. Fui a ver los edificios de viejo. Fui a comprar en la comercial de la Romana. Fui a comer en los restaurantes bien. Fui a comer chuleta al carbon. Fue muy bien. Fui a quidar en Hotel Casa del Mar. Fui a sacar muchos fotos por el ciudad.

Me and my girlfriend booked this holiday and it was our first all inclusive holiday ever and we'd
never been this far away from home before so we were very excited. It was a great flight and we
got to the hotel very quickly when we got there it was dark so we couldn't see any of the
hotel so we went down to the beach and the water w...

I slept until 10AM today, which felt heavenly. The breakfast buffet was about as impressive as the dinner last night, except for the wonderful omelet station. Thereˇ¦s really not much to report from most of the day. I figured out where to get beach towels (something I never sorted out yesterday), lathered on the sunscreen, and spent some time ly...

The trip got off to a rocky start. The day before, I was talking to Sara to coordinate meeting in the airport (she was flying from Denver, I from DC), and I (or we, I'm not clear whether she knew) realized that she was arriving a day after me. This despite the fact that she left around the same time. Her flights were going to take her 36 hours a...

Well our RTW trip is over and we have a gorgeous little baby boy. I wanted to add the rest of our trips (for posterity) to my travelogue. Some are quite recent but others are memories of halcyon days. Dominican Republic: In 1997 I had started work as a junior doctor and after a couple of months I was totally ready for a break. Jane and I went to...