Mine To Share

Nat's Place @ Junk's Hole

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Nat's Place @ Junk's Hole

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Nat's Place @ Junk's Hole

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Nat's Place @ Junk's Hole

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Nat's Place @ Junk's Hole

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Nat's Place @ Junk's Hole

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Nat's Place @ Junk's Hole

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A wonderful stretch of beach

Nat's Place @ Junk's Hole

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More collected junk

Nat's Place @ Junk's Hole

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Some junk collected at Junk's Hole

Nat's Place @ Junk's Hole

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The beach at Junk's Hole.

Nat's Place @ Junk's Hole

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Another view of Nat's place.

Nat's Place @ Junk's Hole

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Had an early morning drive up here, to Junk's Hole.Situated here is The Palm Grove Bar & Grill (Nat's Place).We were there before it open's for business (11.00am).So we just had a wonderful long walk along the beach there.The area reminded me very much of Barbuda.

Footprints RBH

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Footprints RBH

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Footprints RBH

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Footprints RBH

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Footprints RBH

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Footprints, Rendezvous Bay Hotel

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A few snaps from our Footprints charter of Rendezvous Bay Hotel. Sadly now falling into disrepair. The family that own the hotel and grounds hope to build an exclusive hotel/condos. When ?

Coastal Drive.

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Coastal Drive.

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LA Cafe

Coastal Drive.

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Coastal Drive.

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Entrance to LA Cafe with views of St. Maarten.

Coastal Drive.

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Another view of St. Maarten

Coastal Drive.

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Coastal Drive.

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St. Maarten in the distance

Coastal Drive.

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Coastal Drive.

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Coastal Drive.

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We went for a drive to the east of Blowing Point, and stopped off at a few rocky bays, very pretty with views of St Maarten,the bays we stopped at were all close to one another, Pelican, Round Rock and Lockrum.

Footprints, Maundays Bay

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Footprints, Maundays Bay

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Footprints, Maundays Bay

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"Blue" restaurant, formerly known as "George's"

Footprints, Maundays Bay

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Cap Juluca, the resort

Footprints, Maundays Bay

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Footprints, Maundays Bay

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Pulling into Maundays Bay, home of Cap Juluca, one of the Caribbean's premier resorts.

Footprints Boat Charter

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Captain Ritz and Carmen, at our pick up point at Blowing Point

We chartered Footprints for 4 hours and went around the Island. Stopping here and there on the way.The couple that run it were so nice and friendly.Captain Ritz and Carmen.We really had a great 4 hours with them, and viewed Anguilla in a completley different way looking in from the sea. I will post some photos with those types of views from time to time on the blog

http://www.footprintscharters.com/anguilla/

Beach Bar @ Serenity

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Very quaint indeed.

Beach Bar @ Serenity

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Our smoothies in the blender !

The Beach Bar & Serenity

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They have such a quaint little beach bar at Serenity, we had two very rich strawberry smoothies too.

Another Serenity Beach Snap

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The Pretty Beach @ Serenity

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The Pretty Beach @ Serenity

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Such a pretty spot

Breakfast

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Those wonderful stress free laid eggs !

Dining Room

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The dining room had a wonderful cool breeze blowing through all the time

Serenity

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The front block of Serenity that has the sea view.
http://www.serenity.ai/

Serenity

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Spent a real relaxed morning on the beach there.They do wonderful stress free laid eggs.I had mine over easy with toast. Very tasty indeed. We had the small beach area to ourselves, had a look around the property too.Just around the corner from the beach you come to Gwen's then the Malakh Day Spa.

Pyrat Rum

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Although not in The Valley, I included a photo from the Pyrat Rum.I bought the Savage Pistol (Orange Liquer Rum) for a present, but I kept going back to taste the 1623 Cask, 3 times in fact.That's the one by the Walnut Box.It truly is a wonderful rum, as good as a cognac.Well the price had me yes, no, yes, no, yes, no.You get the picture.I finally caved in and bought it for an Xmas present to myself !!! $180 USD, but worth I think, I hope.

Valley Bistro

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Owned and run by the team who run Cote Mer in Island Harbour.

http://www.cotemer-anguilla.com/cotemer.html

Valley Bistro

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Hungry's Courtyard

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Another Church

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Wallblake House

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Now a museum, and historical building.

Church

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Hungry's

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Never tried it this time, maybe next time.I did hear good reports about his road side van food though.

Post Office

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Lime ( Formerly Cable and Wireless)

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L.I.M.E.

Landline, Internet, Mobile, Entertainment.

Out And About In The Valley

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A few photos to follow from an early morning call in The Valley, the capital of Anguilla. Enjoy !

Meads Bay

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Malliouhana/Meads from Footprints

Meads Bay

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Carimar, from Footprints

Meads Bay

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Viceroy, taken from Footprints

Meads Bay

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Another taken from The Straw Hat

Meads Bay

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Taken from the Straw Hat restaurant

Meads Bay

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Meads Bay

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Meads Bay

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Taken from 4th floor at Turtles Nest

Meads Bay

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Between Phase 1 and Phase 2 buildings at Turtles Nest

Meads Bay

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Some Views of Meads Bay

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Meads Bay, some views taken from various angles, some from along the beach, some taken from the 4th floor of Turtles Nest and some taken from out at sea on the Footprints Charter speed boat. a very, very hot beach we found.We stayed there last year in Carimar.

Dune Preserve

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If your kool this is for you !!!!

Just A View

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The view from our table

Jazz Band

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The jazz band on stage at Dune Preserve

Bankie With The Girls

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Bankie with Kate & Jackie

Lunch

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Mine all gone !

Lunch

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Whole Steamed Snapper in Broth

Lunch

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Whole Grilled Snapper

Lunch

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Shrimp & Papaya Salad

Dune Preserve (Lunch)

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I think that's enough of the food now.I need to see some sea and beaches.
Anyway we had a great Sunday afternoon there with the greens from maine, great lunch, some jazz and Bankie popped over for a "photo shoot" with the two young girls Kate & Jackie.

Trattoria Tramonto

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http://www.trattoriatramonto.com/

Coffee

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A very good Cappucino

Dessert

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Chocolate EXPLOSION !!! again

Our Main Course

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Fresh Mussels

A Break in between Courses

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Taking in the view until the next course

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Wild Boar Prosciutto on a bed of Spinach

Starter's @ T T

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Caprese.

Lunch on Shoal Bay West

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Trattoria Tramonto, what a great location for lunch, wonderful beach, free beds and umberella's if you have lunch, so it's worth it. Let's see what we had on the menu that day !

Dessert @ Luna Rosa

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Finished with Tiramisu

Gnocci With Meat Sauce

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Homemade Gnocci with Meat Sauce, excellent !!

Seafood Fettucine

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We both had this for our mains, very very tasty indeed.

Caprese

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Swordfish Cappacio

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Swordfish Cappacio, followed by ???

Second Meal @ Luna Rosa

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It was so good, we just had to go back again and sample that wonderful food. Start with some Bruschetta, follow it with ???

E's Oven

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Creamy Mash & Plantain

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Beet Salad

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Fresh Tuna

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Lemon Crusted Parrot Fish

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Wonderful !!!

Garlic & Lemon Crusted Crayfish Tails

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Wonderful !

E's Oven

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This was a great find, we loved it.Reminded me so much of a restaurant we have in here in Antigua called "Home".
The food at E's Oven was well prepared and the service was very good too.
All in all a very good meal and evening.

Ready To Eat

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Cooked and ready for the table.

Some Home Cooking on the BBQ

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Fired up the grill at Chinaberry for a bit of home cooking