We arrived on Monday and have gotten into the vacation mode pretty quickly. Renting a nice little condo in Orient Village which overlooks the village for the month of August.

We got a new VW polo from Sixt which is very nice. we pre-paid $601 for the month including 3rd party liability. They did put an extra 700e charge deposit on our card which is supposed to be refunded at the end of the rental.

There's a lot of traffic in the Phillipsburg area, much more than I remember for this time of year. We were disappointed in Cost-u-less for shopping. Somewhat expensive and the meat looked nasty. The petit Casino in Orient Village is very nice and Willie at the Perch recommended the big supermarket on the left as you enter Marigot from Grand Case direction. I believe that some of our TTOL friends told us that as well.

Nice (windy) day on Orient on Tuesday and we hopped around the island yesterday in the rain. Great Mahi Mahi at Lee's yesterday for lunch and great burgers at Bikini BB for dinner. The weather is supposed to improve each day, if fact the sun just popped out !Yea!.

Made a stop at Sunset BB yesterday and watched a few jets take off in the rain. There is a new fence right along the guard rail (on the runway side of the road) It's about 8 to 10 feet from the original fence which is still there. So, now if someone wants to hang on the fence they are standing right in the road. We did not see anyone hanging on the fence even when the big 4 engine Air France took off.

We'll try and work some pictures into the next update.

Cheers,
Jim & Laraine