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                                                                                                                        Friday 12 February 2016

Real Island Life: Notes From A Day On Aruba!

PALM BEACH - First of all, I  a few more days at home          with anything you like to       First stop was the famous         ging” on the beach star-
like to welcome you to my     when you start realizing how     drink cold, and start driv-     Charlie’s Bar in San Nico-        ing at the turquoise ocean
island in the sun. Aruba’s    beautiful our island really is.  ing. Of course you can get      laas Main Street. Genera-         and listening to the birds
weather is always so pre-     So I took some time to “smell    in an air-conditioned car,      tion after generation of          that fly by and walk around
dictable (hot and windy)      the ocean breeze”......          but also nice for the ex-       Charlie’s have been run-          it is time to get some food.
and that might be the main    I truly think that all locals    perience are the open-air       ning this cozy place, where       Zeerovers in Savaneta is the
                                                                                               you can spend hours look-         place to go. Simple, clean
                                                                                               ing around and identifying        and oh so good!
                                                                                               all the things visiting tourists   The freshest fish on the is-
                                                                                               have left behind to person-       land, brought in directly by
                                                                                               alize the bar, like baseball      our local fisherman. You
                                                                                               caps, business cards, li-         order by the piece and
                                                                                               cense plates and of course        or pound and as little or
                                                                                               weird kind of souvenirs. Go       as much as you want. The
                                                                                               check it out yourself.....        price for fish and chips is
                                                                                               Up to Baby Beach and              so good that you for sure
                                                                                               Rogers beach.                     would ask: “is that all”?
                                                                                               These are the places locals       No fancy dinner ware, just
                                                                                               go. This is where we teach        plain easy simple plastic
                                                                                               our kids to swim. Calm            but I promise you that you
                                                                                               and shallow waters, lots of       will be licking your fingers
                                                                                               space to lie out and catch        while enjoying a few drinks
                                                                                               some sun. If you pick a spot      and the best sunset on
                                                                                               close to the Snack Contain-       the island, island style........
                                                                                               er where they sell burger         You see now that a day
                                                                                               and refreshments you can          in Aruba can fly by as
                                                                                               enjoy 24-7 “golden oldies”.       long as you have fun en-
                                                                                               Music you grew up with......      joy every moment of it.
                                                                                               After a few hours of “veg-        Yes, you are in PARADISE!!!q

reason you decided to         should do so, once in a          jeeps. In that case all you
come visit us. Of course be-  while, to appreciate where       need is to protect yourself
sides the sun there is much   we live and what we have.�       with sun block because our
more like: beaches, res-      Enjoy breakfast outside in       sun is really strong-I recom-
taurants, shopping, gam-      your patio or yard. Breathe      mend Aruba Aloe brand!
bling, activities and more.   in and out.... Let it sink in a  Packed with a towel and
Talking about all those       little.                          the ice cooler I started driv-
fun things to do here, if     No rush and no hurry. Take       ing along the coast line.
you live on the island full   time to enjoy your fresh         Never realized how many
time, and work every day,     squeezed lemon juice from        different shades of blue
you might forget that we      your backyard trees with         really exist in the ocean. I
truly live in a paradise.     a fish omelet (left over’s       counted at least 9 differ-
Of course on your off day     from last night’s incred-        ent types of blues-just like
you might go swimming or      ible catch of the day).          you see in famous mov-
drive around but it is after  Grab an ice cooler, fill it up   ies like the “blue lagoon”.
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