Latitude: 12.1 N Longitude: -68.91667 W Capital: Willemstad
Travel in Netherlands Antilles
A total of 3 members have visited 4 locations in Netherlands Antilles.
Together they have written 2 travel stories and uploaded 45 pictures from Netherlands Antilles.
Last visit in Netherlands Antilles was made 2009-04-12 by hankster who was in Willemstad.
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Short introduction to Netherlands Antilles
Once the center of the Caribbean slave trade, the island of Curacao was hard hit by the abolition of slavery in 1863. Its prosperity (and that of neighboring Aruba) was restored in the early 20th century with the construction of oil refineries to service the newly discovered Venezuelan oil fields. The island of Sint Maarten is shared with France; its northern portion is named Saint Martin and is part of Guadeloupe.
so we pulled into Wilemstad in Curacao on Easter Sunday, yeah that makes sense... I would guess it was about 50/50 on stores opening or closing, oh well. We did find a nice Dutch cafe open at Plein Wi...
Today was a busy day! We had room service for breakfast again (they left out my pastry and coffee, the scoundrels!), and waited for the announcement that we were cleared for disembarkation at St. Maar...