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If you come to Aruba often enough you know the island cost of living is far from low. In fact Aruba is likely among the highest COL places in the Caribbean, if not the very highest. However, one of th ...

Update please...

I looked at this post months ago...and it looked great.

The price at a place like Amazon seems very high PER PIECE.

Yaofeng...the link doesn't seem to be valid now.

I woul ...

This is a personal taste. I have been wanting to get the Eternum silverware from Belgium for a long time.

http://www.eternum.com/en

How I get to know it is from my frequent visit to Yemanja in ...

We went to Barcelona last February to watch two FC Barcelona matches and stopped by Lisbon on our way home. The Iberian Peninsula is becoming very affordable with the resurgence of the Greenbacks unli ...

I did not think I was coming back to the island anymore but here I am once again after more than a year.

The digital entry is a surprise and a welcome change. You still fill out the custom form on ...

As a matter of course I need to update this. I did not think I would be back on the island again after the refinery turned into a terminal operation but I did. Arriving on Monday I saw the herd again. ...

The last time I visited Aruba was late January, 2012. A few things changed in two of my favorite restaurants on the island during the 10 months. In Yemanja the hostess Miriam and waitress Renata are n ...

Haha! As recent as last year when I flew Tiara to Punto Fijo I still at least got a juice box for the 20 minute air time flight. I hope Tiara still does it.

There is nothing from DAE, even with the ...

Went to the neighboring island Curacao yesterday. It was only the fourth time I went there of the many trips I made Aruba. Over the years there have been a few changes to the operators. As of now ther ...

The Aruba government announced raising the rental car operator's permit from AFL$750 to ALF$3,400 last week. This is how I understand it from reading (half guessing) the local paper in Papiamento. You ...

This is the [url=http://www.aruba-travelguide.com/bulletinboard/viewtopic.php?t=10504&highlight=whale]dead whale which appeared on the north shore last year. Now there is [url=http://www.24ora.com ...

My first five years or so I rented from Dollar at the airport. The next five from National also at the airport, Last year I started to rent from Deals on Wheels offsite. They were located at the Toyot ...

The last time I came to Aruba was January, 2012 just before the announcement of the refinery closing. It has been nine months since. This will likely be my last visit for work unless someone takes ove ...

Correction. The pack has eight members. Going out to dinner in the car I saw them grazing in Seroe Colorado yesterday.

Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2012, I began my early morning jog in Seroe Colorado. It rained heavily a few hours ago. Woke me up in my sleep. This is only my second day on the island this trip. I was surprised ...