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                                                                                                           LOCAL Wednesday 7 June 2017




















                       Real Island Life: Notes From A Day On Aruba!




                                                                                                   ent  types  of  blues-just  like   Rogers  beach.    These  are
                                                                                                   you  see  in  famous  mov-   the  places  locals  go.  This
                                                                                                   ies  like  the  “blue  lagoon”.   is where we teach our kids
                                                                                                   First  stop  was  the  famous   to swim. Calm and shallow
                                                                                                   Charlie’s  Bar  in  San  Nico-  waters, lots of space to lie
                                                                                                   laas  Main  Street.  Genera-  out and catch some sun. If
                                                                                                   tion  after  generation  of   you pick a spot close to the
                                                                                                   Charlie’s  have  been  run-  Snack  Container  where
                                                                                                   ning this cozy place, where   they  sell  burger  and  re-
                                                                                                   you can spend hours look-    freshments  you  can  enjoy
                                                                                                   ing around and identifying   24-7 “golden oldies”. Music
                                                                                                   all the things visiting tourists   you grew up with...... After
                                                                                                   have left behind to person-  a  few  hours  of  “vegging”
                                                                                                   alize the bar, like baseball   on  the  beach  staring  at
                                                                                                   caps,  business  cards,  li-  the  turquoise  ocean  and
                                                                                                   cense plates and of course   listening  to  the  birds  that











            PALM BEACH - First of all, I   your fresh squeezed lemon  jeeps.  In  that  case  all  you
            like to welcome you to my    juice  from  your  backyard  need is  to protect yourself
            island  in  the  sun.  Aruba’s   trees with a fish omelet (left  with sun block because our
            weather  is  always  so  pre-  over’s  from  last  night’s  in-  sun is really strong-I recom-
            dictable  (hot  and  windy)   credible catch of the day).  mend  Aruba  Aloe  brand!
            and that might be the main   Grab an ice cooler, fill it up  Packed  with  a  towel  and
            reason  you  decided  to     with  anything  you  like  to  the ice cooler I started driv-
            come visit us.  Of course be-  drink  cold,  and  start  driv-  ing  along  the  coast  line.
            sides the sun there is much   ing. Of course you can get  Never  realized  how  many
            more  like:  beaches,  res-  in  an  air-conditioned  car,  different  shades  of  blue   weird kind of souvenirs. Go   fly  by  and  walk  around  it
            taurants,  shopping,  gam-   but  also  nice  for  the  ex-  really  exist  in  the  ocean.  I   check  it  out  yourself.....   is  time  to  get  some  food.
            bling,  activities  and  more.    perience  are  the  open-air  counted  at  least  9  differ-  Up  to  Baby  Beach  and   Zeerovers  in  Savaneta  is
            Talking  about  all  those                                                                                          the  place  to  go.  Simple,
            fun  things  to  do  here,  if                                                                                      clean and oh so good! The
            you  live  on  the  island  full                                                                                    freshest  fish  on  the  island,
            time, and work every day,                                                                                           brought  in  directly  by  our
            you  might  forget  that  we                                                                                        local  fisherman.  You  or-
            truly  live  in  a  paradise.                                                                                       der  by  the  piece  and  or
            Of  course  on  your  off                                                                                           pound  and  as  little  or  as
            day  you  might  go  swim-                                                                                          much  as  you  want.  The
            ming  or  drive  around                                                                                             price  for  fish  and  chips  is
            but  it  is  after  a  few  more                                                                                    so  good  that  you  for  sure
            days  at  home  when  you                                                                                           would  ask:  “is  that  all”?
            start  realizing  how  beauti-                                                                                      No fancy dinner ware, just
            ful  our  island  really  is.  So  I                                                                                plain  easy  simple  plastic
            took  some  time  to  “smell                                                                                        but I promise you that you
            the   ocean    breeze”......                                                                                        will  be  licking  your  fingers
            I  truly  think  that  all  locals                                                                                  while enjoying a few drinks
            should  do  so,  once  in  a                                                                                        and  the  best  sunset  on
            while, to appreciate where                                                                                          the  island,  island  style........
            we live and what we have.�                                                                                          You  see  now  that  a  day
            Enjoy  breakfast  outside  in                                                                                       in  Aruba  can  fly  by  as
            your patio or yard. Breathe                                                                                         long  as  you  have  fun  en-
            in  and  out....  Let  it  sink  in                                                                                 joy  every  moment  of  it.
            a  little.  No  rush  and  no                                                                                       Yes,    you      are    in
            hurry.  Take  time  to  enjoy                                                                                       PARADISE!!!q
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