Background: Once the center of the Caribbean slave trade, the island of Curacao was hard hit by the abolition of slavery in 1863. Its prosperity (and that of neighboring Aruba) was restored in the early 20th century with the construction of oil refineries to service the newly discovered Venezuelan oil fields. The island of Saint Martin is shared with France; its southern portion is named Sint Maarten and is part of the Netherlands Antilles; its northern portion is called Saint-Martin and is part of Guadeloupe (France).
April 20th 2008Central America Caribbean » Netherlands Antilles » Sint Maarten We sailed to the spa on Tintamarre island, Sint Maartem, Netherland Antilles with good our friends Steve and Ann Honea for a mud bath treatment. Our skin felt smooth and clean after we washed off the ... 3 photos[full story]
March 28th 2008Central America Caribbean » Netherlands Antilles » Saba Following New Year's Eve, a series of events led to our final breakup and Joachim's departure from Saba in late January, without Nina.
Although many of you know of the details, I, Joachim, though ... [full story]
March 20th 2008Central America Caribbean » Netherlands Antilles » Sint Maarten We are still in St Maarten. It has just been over two weeks since we arrived back from Mexico and time has flown. It has been two weeks of hard work getting Woodsia in ship shape for her voyage. Our ... 6 photos[full story]
March 8th 2008Central America Caribbean » Netherlands Antilles » Sint Maarten We got in about 10.30pm to St Maarten. It was a long day. We got to out hotel at about 11 ish only to find no one at reception. Just as we had made other arrangements to stay at a hotel in Philipsburg ... 5 photos[full story]
February 11th 2008Central America Caribbean » Netherlands Antilles » Curaçao with American Airlines. I was checked in separately from Alex due to my confirmation not pulling up in their system. Found out the hard way that they charge a flat $50 for anything over 50 pounds. ... 46 photos[full story]
February 12th 2008Central America Caribbean » Netherlands Antilles » Curaçao Hello everyone,
I have actually been home for almost a week now but I thought I would tell you briefly about my final days in Curacao. I have to admit getting used to the incredible mounds of snow b ... [full story]
February 2nd 2008Central America Caribbean » Netherlands Antilles » Curaçao Happy Groundhog Day everyone!
Not sure whether or not Wiarton Willie saw his shadow or not but hope you are all well in reading this blog.
I hate to talk about the sunny days in Curacao but there ... [full story]
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