April 13, 2007
the French West Indies island of Saint Barthélemy, better known as St. Barts or St. Barths
Here's a fairly short article about a 4-day trip to St. Barts that the author says felt like a 7 day vacation. Luckily it wasn't actually 7 days because St. Barts is an expensive vacation destination. There are exclusive resorts (the author paid 340 Euros a night), expensive French restaurants and fancy designer shops.
To get to St. Barts, you fly into Juliana Airport in St. Maarten and then get a "puddle jumper flight" or take a ferry to St. Barts.
They said some interesting things about St. Maarten: "There’s a mountain and a steep drop to the short runway that stops just shy of the sunbathers on the adjacent beach. (One could literally hop off the plane, strip down to their swimsuit and have a refreshing Ricard in hand on the sand in a matter of minutes.)" I used to have a video of that, but YouTube removed it for a terms of use violation - I guess it was copyrighted somewhere.
I found a couple of more for you. I don't know why, but I never get tired of watching these planes so close to people on the beach. These videos do make some noise - just so you know if you're at work or something and have your speakers on.
Posted by James Trotta at April 13, 2007 11:53 AM | TrackBack