On Island Tours and New Ports of Call

Big news here in Arrecife! I'm moving out of Port Royale and into a lovely apartment just south of Jamestown with a few friends from work. The rent is significantly cheaper, the area is significantly nicer, and the house itself is significantly better than the motel room I've been living in for the past three months. Observe:


This is the view from the upper window in the front of the apartment. Jamestown is a little less than a mile away, and the beach is a 5 minute walk from our door.


The exterior of our apartment. Note the heavy-duty hurricane shutters on all of the windows - much better protection than most places have around here!


This is a shot of the interior downstairs. It has a rather large kitchen, 2 bed/2.5 bath, a pool in the backyard, and chickens running around everywhere (outside). The neighborhood itself is rather quiet, and many of our friends from work live within a 1 mile radius.

Today we signed the lease on the apartment, then set out on a grand island tour since we all had the day off. After looking at the apartment one more time (two of my roommates still hadn't seen the property), the third roommate and I set out on a garage saleing expedition. We made it halfway across the island before finally seeing a few signs. Most of them turned out to be dead ends, but we did manage to locate one sale that was still going on, where we purchased a few decorations for the apartment. By then it was lunchtime, so we got some fixings at the grocery store and headed back to my roommate's boyfriend's place and feasted on homemade gyros. After hanging around there for a while we went to the island's animal shelter, where we went to their secondhand bookstore. I've been to a couple of other bookstores on the island, but nothing like this one. The place had literally tens of thousands of books - a far better selection than any of the other places I've seen - and they were all $1 each. My roommate and I ended up staying there for about an hour (bookstores will do that to you) before pressing on. After spending some time looking at other shops in the area and trying on some rather ridiculous clothes for fun, she headed home and I went grocery shopping before wandering back to Port Royale. A busy day to be sure, but tons of fun.