Showing posts with label Island Hopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Island Hopping. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 20, 2011









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. 
Monday, December 19, 2011


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.

Friday, December 9, 2011
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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!!!

Monday, November 22, 2010
    Well, Thanksgiving is this week and I am reminiscing about what I was doing last year at this time. Last year we rented a catamaran, Sarah Sue, and spent the week of Thanksgiving sailing around the British Virgin Islands. We started our trip out of St. Thomas and spent the first night on the boat at Jost Van Dyke, and then sailed to Nanny Cay, Anegada, Virgin Gorda, Saba Rock, Norman Island, Sandy Cay and a couple other little places too.

 This is Sarah Sue!

 No Worries + I'm on a boat!!

 The North Sound of Virgin Gorda, and that is Saba Rock.

 The crew!!!

My Captain, charting!  

 The RMS Rhone ship wreck.


This year we are having Thanksgiving at our place on St. John:)


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