We have been now a couple of days in St. Martin and our first impression is good, but we realize that the season is over a
nd slowly St. Martin gets deserted by sailors, yachties and tourists due to the upcoming hurricane season. St. Martin is a small island but popular tourist destination in the Caribbean. Christopher Columbus discovered the island during his second voyage in 1493. The Spanish abandoned the island in 1648 and the island was then settled by French and Dutch prisoners. They decided to divide the island between the two countries. The legend holds that they defined the border through a walking contest. A Frenchman and a Dutchmen started in the same spot, walked around the island in opposite directions and drew the boundary line where they met. However in reality through the Treaty of Concordia France got granted the bigger part of the island, because its Navy could offer better protection. The capital of S
t. Martin on the French side is Marigot and the Dutch side is Philipsburg. The population of the whole island is 68 000 people. The last couple of days we have explored the French side as well as the Dutch side of St. Martin. There are lots of shops with beautiful clothing and jewelry to look at and the many restaurants invite us with their aromatic scents of all kind of food and spices. Conversely we ended up eating at Burger Kind for lunch on Mother’s Day. What a treat, but Sven and I had to pay straight away for our weakness with heartburn and a bad conscious! On our second day we moved from Marigot Bay into the Simpson Lagoon, it is easy to anchor in there and the nights are not as rough compared to an
choring in the Bay. It was exciting to drive through the br
idge and of course there is not a day without excitement and so we got our JUCA stuck on the only sandbank in the channel. Luckily a motorboat with the name “True Blue” was so kind to tow us off the sandbank and back into the deep; thereafter we carefully kept an eye on the water and anchored at the next best site. We are going to hire a car for
the next couple of days to explore the island and visit the butterfly farm on the Dutch side. However we have both already decided to move on and not to stay here in St. Martin. Where to? We don’t know yet whether to go down to Grenada or towards Panama, time will tell. Yesterday we had a blocked toilet once again. I suppose it happened because I started to clean the toilet with vinegar and boy does that clean the toilet in no time, but the downside is that it also cleans the pipes from al
l the shit that has accumulated over the years. What an operation and of course it happened late at night, so instead of a family movie the whole family was bucketing shit forwards and backwards in the dark. We had to laugh in the end and it turned out to be a quiet funny family teamwork event. Mother’s Day we spend relatively low key, I got spoiled with kind words and sweet intentions and bathed in them for the whole day.
nd slowly St. Martin gets deserted by sailors, yachties and tourists due to the upcoming hurricane season. St. Martin is a small island but popular tourist destination in the Caribbean. Christopher Columbus discovered the island during his second voyage in 1493. The Spanish abandoned the island in 1648 and the island was then settled by French and Dutch prisoners. They decided to divide the island between the two countries. The legend holds that they defined the border through a walking contest. A Frenchman and a Dutchmen started in the same spot, walked around the island in opposite directions and drew the boundary line where they met. However in reality through the Treaty of Concordia France got granted the bigger part of the island, because its Navy could offer better protection. The capital of S
t. Martin on the French side is Marigot and the Dutch side is Philipsburg. The population of the whole island is 68 000 people. The last couple of days we have explored the French side as well as the Dutch side of St. Martin. There are lots of shops with beautiful clothing and jewelry to look at and the many restaurants invite us with their aromatic scents of all kind of food and spices. Conversely we ended up eating at Burger Kind for lunch on Mother’s Day. What a treat, but Sven and I had to pay straight away for our weakness with heartburn and a bad conscious! On our second day we moved from Marigot Bay into the Simpson Lagoon, it is easy to anchor in there and the nights are not as rough compared to an
choring in the Bay. It was exciting to drive through the br
idge and of course there is not a day without excitement and so we got our JUCA stuck on the only sandbank in the channel. Luckily a motorboat with the name “True Blue” was so kind to tow us off the sandbank and back into the deep; thereafter we carefully kept an eye on the water and anchored at the next best site. We are going to hire a car for
the next couple of days to explore the island and visit the butterfly farm on the Dutch side. However we have both already decided to move on and not to stay here in St. Martin. Where to? We don’t know yet whether to go down to Grenada or towards Panama, time will tell. Yesterday we had a blocked toilet once again. I suppose it happened because I started to clean the toilet with vinegar and boy does that clean the toilet in no time, but the downside is that it also cleans the pipes from al
l the shit that has accumulated over the years. What an operation and of course it happened late at night, so instead of a family movie the whole family was bucketing shit forwards and backwards in the dark. We had to laugh in the end and it turned out to be a quiet funny family teamwork event. Mother’s Day we spend relatively low key, I got spoiled with kind words and sweet intentions and bathed in them for the whole day.
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