Claudiavandijk

Monday the second was a nice day, the sun was shining and it was warm. After the Starbucks discovery, we just walked in the neighbourhood of our hotel. The beach is only 30 meters from the hotel, it's not big, but looks nice. You only can't swim there, it's too dangerous. The part of San Juan we're in is called Condado. It's an old part of the town (but not so old as Old San Juan). They do a lot of reconstruction and we see quite a lot of new, expensive hotels around our hotel. The first 9 days of the holiday we are just in an old hotel called El Canario by the sea. It only has 25 rooms, breakfast is nothing (only some bread with butter and jam, cornflakes with milk and coffee tea ... read more

After more then 24 hours travelling, we finally arrived at Puerto Rico in the middle of the night. We started hour holiday in Brussels. It's a long time ago that we took a flight from Brussel airport, but since july 2008 Holland has a an extra flight tax of 45 euro per person and Schiphol raised several taxes at the same time, it saves us almost 200 euro's to leave from Brussel. Brussel is as far from our place as Schiphol airport, so no differences in time. We are used to have the luggage go in transit straight to our destination, but in Newark that's not the way it works. You pick up your luggage at the baggage claim and bring it immediately to the baggage drop. How silly. We also had to fill in a ... read more