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June 2010 Anguilla Trip: Day 1

Arriving in St. Maarten Whenever I land at Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maarten (SXM), it’s usually after a night of maybe 3 hours of sleep followed by ~7 hours of traveling.  Despite being completely exhausted and likely a little frustrated at not being able to sleep on the plane, I am always completely [...]

My Newest Reason To Be An Anguilla Regular

Not that I really needed another reason to keep returning to Anguilla over and over again, but…  today I found out that I’m going to be a godmother of a soon-to-be-born Anguillian baby boy! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee! (Yes, that was my squeal of joy.) Actually, my good friends let me know that they were expecting a child [...]

Back to Anguilla: Return. Rejoice! Relax. Re-center.

Well, I made it back to Anguilla! I had a pretty smooth travel day yesterday and was so excited to arrive back on my favorite island once again. Ahhh, island bliss… You may or may not have noticed that I’ve been neglecting this blog a bit in the past few months. That’s been mostly because [...]

Rule of Travel #1: Respect Locals and the Way They Live

Whenever we travel away from home, it’s likely that we’re going to encounter people who live, think and act differently than we do. This applies not only to when we visit foreign countries, but could also be the case when we travel a just a few towns away. Recognizing that fact, it seems to automatically [...]

Island Vocabulary Lesson #1: Anguilla

It isn’t difficult to fall in love with island accents, especially if you’ve naturally begun to associate them with that mesmerizing bliss that takes over when you’re in a Caribbean paradise. (A word of advice though: Don’t get so obsessed that you borderline stalk a guy in the grocery store because you hear him talking [...]

A Trip to Little Bay, Anguilla

If you’re taking a trip to Anguilla, you should definitely make sure that a visit to Little Bay is on your list of things to do!  This not-so-secret (not anymore, at least) location is located in the middle of the northern coast of the island, just northeast of Crocus Bay.  As its name implies, Little [...]

Why Anguilla is Nicknamed “Rainbow City”

When it rains in Anguilla, most of the time the showers last less than ten minutes and then the clouds roll away quickly to make way for the sun to shine again.  As you might imagine, that kind of weather pattern provides prime conditions for the formation of rainbows.  During my last trip to Anguilla, [...]