Dorado Beach Club has closed West Beach and opened their new beach restaurant – Barlovento. Housed in the Ambassadors of the Environment building (which is run by the the Ritz-Carlton Reserve), Barlovento also has a non-motorized water sports facility offering lessons in kayaking, paddle boarding, wind surfing, kite surfing and sailing. The restaurant is bright …
In three days, the first Ritz-Carlton Reserve in the Americas – Dorado Beach will open. Here’s a preview of what the main pool, Positivo bar and Mi Casa by Jose Andres looks like from the beach. It’s finally happening!
The first part of our summer holiday was a weekend in Miami at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach for some more sun, sand and sea. The location is super with direct access to the beach and to Miami’s pedestrian-only Lincoln road with it’s strip of shops, some cheesy and some really cool, and restaurants, some tourist-traps and …
It’s seldom that I stumble on a place that is just perfect in every way and instead of keeping it a secret, I just want to tell everyone about it. I didn’t expect to find a favorite in Anguilla but I was pleasantly surprised with Blanchards Beach Shack – the concept was quaint but well-thought …
Getting to Anguilla isn’t that simple. There are direct flights from San Juan to Anguilla but it’s on small propeller planes so we opted to go on JetBlue via St. Maarten making the journey in a plane, a boat and two immigration checks (in St. Maarten at the airport and in Anguilla at the dock) …
My last post was in mid-February and the last four weeks have zoomed by. Since then, we have packed up our house into a 40-foot container, said goodbye to our friends in Bali, taken four flights and flown over 24 hours to finally arrive in Puerto Rico on the first of March. It’s been …
When a new restaurant opens in quiet Sanur, there’s always a buzz as this sleepy part of Bali is filled with restaurants yet very few are worth going to. Minami in Ubud is where people go for refined Japanese cuisine. I had never had a chance to visit the Ubud outpost so when I heard …
Travels with a Gourmet 