St. Kitts 2024

You plan a trip, you look forward to it for so long, and BAM - you wake up and it’s the day to return home. Oh well, that is how life works.  We had planned to get up at 6, take a last beach walk before breakfast, and hit the beach for a few hours before checking out.  But when we peeked through the curtains, it was evident by the pouring rain that there would be no walk. So we took our time and had a leisurely breakfast.  The rain stopped briefly, and our hopes turned high.  But like a faucet being tuned on and off, the skies quickly opened again. By 9, we decided to sit on the beach under a cabana in spite of it. The wind whipped up, driving the rain sideways! It felt like a Newfoundland rain storm.  As you can see in the photo of Pam below, we found a sheltered spot on the pool deck and rigged up three layers of umbrellas.  At 10, the rain stopped, and we headed for the beach for one last hour, enjoying a wonderful swim in the warm Caribbean. We pulled a...

We were at breakfast by 7:30 and were on the beach by 8:30. While there were a few threatening clouds on the horizon, we had a great morning in 29°C. After claiming our now-usual cabana, we did a 3KM walk up and down the beach and then spent an hour-and-a-half floating in the warm ocean with pool noodles. I can’t remember the last time we both felt so relaxed.  By 1245, we were starting to feel a bit peck-ish. As if on cue, the sky opened up — Mother Nature‘s way of telling us it was time to go get some lunch.  We packed up, cleaned up, and set out for Basseterre, the nearby capital city. Okay, “city” is a bit of a stretch — let’s call it a town. After a quick lunch near the cruise terminal, we set out on foot to explore the limited number of sites of interest, which are all centered around Independence Square.   Following that, we drove back in the direction of the hotel and onwards to the very southern tip of St. Kitts. From my earlier blog entry, you may recall that I ...

One of the best things about a short November Caribbean getaway is the opportunity to get a solid 8-9 hours of sleep (which we did - wild horses couldn't have kept us awake last night) and then to enjoy a nicely prepared breakfast in the resort restaurant (which we did). We were up before 8, finished breakfast by 9, and on the beach at 9:30. It was a little overcast, but the sun was definitely peeping through the clouds / haze.  It was really a perfect beach day, with 29C.  We swam and lounged all morning, enjoying three prolonged swims with “pool noodles” borrowed from the hotel’s towel hut.  I haven’t seen Pam so relaxed since her summer holidays, as she was floating in that warm water.  It truly did my heart good to see it! At 1PM, we went back to our room, got cleaned up and returned to the nearby Shawarma Shack, where we enjoyed lunch yesterday, for some chicken bites and a quesadilla.   We decided to take three hours of our afternoon to drive around the is...