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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Where to eat in Old San Juan

Going out to eat in Old San Juan can be a lot of fun. While we where visiting we tried a lot of different places and found most of the restaurants that we wanted to try listed on trip-advisor. Our all time favorite restaurant in Old San Juan is Marmalade Restaurant & Wine Bar, I would go back to Old San Juan just eat here again, it's out of control AMAZING!!! We also liked Al Dente for italian, Aguaviva where the seafood and the service was perfect, El Jibarita for it's 'mom and pop' goodness, Aromas Coffeehouse for a yummy breakfast, and the food was good at Baru but the service was extremely bad that I would never go back. Please feel free to add your favorite place to eat in Old San Juan below and happy dining.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

A "UNIQUE" EXPERIENCE AT THE GALLERY INN

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Make sure to pick up your own drinking water, the water they provide tastes terrible.

These are the extremely steep spiral stairs that we had to climb to our room.

View from the wine deck.

We stayed at The Gallery Inn located at the top of Old San Juan in Puerto Rico over the weekend. This has to be one of the most unusual accommodations that I’ve ever stepped foot in – The Gallery Inn has 22 guest rooms within 6 interconnecting townhouses with many additional sitting rooms, gardens, and patios. Each room is stuffed full of Jan D’Esopo’s artwork. I had a lot of fun walking around the property photographing; this was the best part of my stay at The Gallery Inn. I would recommend just visiting the inn, it is open to the public. I wouldn't recommend the accommodations that the inn has to offer for your visit to Old San Juan. I thought the rooms were: overpriced, dingy, full of dust, insulted that there is a “corking fee” of $15 to bring your own bottle of wine to the wine deck, misled by the advertisement for live concerts in the music room that do not exist after September, and annoyed at the constant barking of dogs in the neighborhood and the ongoing squawking of the parrots that bite. The next time I visit Old San Juan I might stay at El Convento instead.

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Monday, December 19, 2011

Weekend Getaway in Old San Juan.

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Just getting back from our weekend getaway to Old San Juan and starting to import all the photos that we made walking around the little city. It was a much needed trip to take a little time off from work, get into the holiday spirit, and recharge. Have you ever been to Old San Juan? It wasn't exactly what I was expecting but a nice change from the day to day here in the USVI. I was secretly hoping to fall in love with the little city and want to relocate there, oh well. I'll post a bunch of photos this week of the trip, my favorite places to eat, where we stayed, and what we did.

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Friday, December 9, 2011

Island Hopping!!!

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Yesterday while I was having island fever I found out that you can now leave St Thomas for less. This is really exciting news that makes island hopping more affordable.... Jet Blue is now offering round trips to San Juan for $78 (well, $90 with tax.) It use to be at least $200 to fly off of St Thomas anywhere. So, I booked my first weekend getaway to Old San Juan!!!! I'm so excited; Thank You Jet Blue!!!

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Looking back at 2011

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I really enjoyed 2011 and I'm looking forward to 2012. Last year was my first full year of blogging on Sage Island; it's been a lot of fun! I've enjoyed sharing my photos, travels, and getting inspiration from other bloggers. Let's take a quick look back over the past year...

I went to the beach a lot: Gibney Beach, Drunk Bay Beach, Francis Beach, Red Beach, and Megan's Beach to name a few.

Eric and I did a bit of traveling last year, we had a Vieques Weekend, Dominica Vacation, Maine with the family, and another weekend getaway at Old San Juan...

.... and I did a lot of daydreaming about traveling to places like here, spending a weekend in this villa, or at this hotel, and on a boat for a week.

Had a lot of fun playing on St John on the Hobie Cat, kayaking guided tour, visiting Josephine's organic garden, eating at the Donkey Diner, went on a bunch of hikes, and my favorite was doing a sunset sail on Sail Pepper.

I had some experiences this year that are now on my list of "best thing I have ever done" like hiking to The Boiling Lake on Dominica, soaking after at Screw's Sulfur Spa, photographing Papillote's tropical garden, swimming in the world's best Bioluminescent Bay on Vieques, and watching the sunset with Eric on the beach.

Found inspiration from artist like Naoto Hattori, Banksy, Eugene Atget, street art, and more.

There's still so much that I would like to do with this blog to make it grow over the next year. More than anything I'm so excited and grateful that people are reading, visiting, and sharing inspiration here on Sage Island - Thank you Friends!!!!

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Friday, December 30, 2011

El Morro Fort

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The next time you visit Old San Juan I would recommend stopping by El Morro Fortress to get a sense of it's history. El Morro was built to protect attacks by sea and is a massive six level fortress that is in amazing condition. I had a blast walking around the space making these photographs.

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Thursday, December 22, 2011