REPLENISHING THE BELGIAN CHOCOLATE

After our voyage to St. Martin for our french desserts, we paid another $20 for the taxi ride back to Dutch St. Maarten. Once back in Philipsburg, we made our way down the main shopping street, Front Street...

past colorful buildings that are the reason I love the Caribbean so much...

to Old Street...

Turning left, we passed the lionshead fountain which unfortunately wasn't working (I wonder if water spurts out of their mouths)...

Past the old car with the flat tires and "Old Street" painted on its sides...

to our other "sweets" destination...

where we purchased more white and dark chocolate to replace the chocolate we had purchased in St. Thomas, and needless to say, had already eaten...yum, yum.

Thank you for visiting,

A Great Europe Trip Planner 

All photos were taken by my husband and me during our visit to St. Maarten.

RETURNING TO ST. MAARTEN

The final port stop on our upcoming cruise is St. Maarten which was our favorite stop on our previous cruise. We have decided not to partake in any specific shore excursion this time. For the previous three days we will busy with planned shore excursions on our stops in Barbados, St. Lucia and St. Kitts. For our final stop we have decided to take it at an easier pace.

There are two things I want to do on this visit: First, I want to go back over to the French side (St. Martin) and spend more time in Marigot. Last cruise our shore excursion only allowed for an hour's time in Marigot. I really enjoyed strolling through the outdoor market...

and chatting and haggling with the friendly, local women over their wares...

 
























 

The other thing I want to do in Marigot is to go back to Sarafina's restaurant and bakery. I read about this place prior to our last trip, and we did manage to rush in and buy a couple of delicious bakery items. I'd like to go back and get some more!
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After spending a couple of hours in Marigot, we'll taxi back to Phillipsburg. There are two places that we know we want to revisit in Philipsburg that I wrote about in a previous post:

First is to go back to the beach on Great Bay. A water taxi travels back and forth from the cruise dock to a pier at the beach...it's a small beach, but it has some of the most beautiful water and softest sand I've ever seen and put my toes in.

The second must-visit is The Belgian Chocolate Box.

This small shop is located on Old Street, a small street just off Front Street, the main shopping street in Philipsburg. We purchased several pieces of both dark and white chocolate here...needless to say, we wished we had bought much more.

Sadly St. Maarten will be the last stop on our upcoming cruise. But once we have returned with many wonderful memories and photographs, I will be writing all about our adventures. And no doubt we will quickly be planning our next travel adventure.

Thank you for visiting,

A Great Europe Trip Planner

Unless noted, photos were taken by my husband and me during our Caribbean cruise in May, 2014.

BLUE WATER/WHITE CHOCOLATE IN ST. MAARTEN

Our morning shore excursion in St. Maarten was short enough to allow us time after lunch to cruise through the Great Bay in a water taxi to the town of Phillipsburg.

And what a beautiful view we had on our water taxi ride...look at the blue color of that water!

When we exited the water taxi, what a surprise to see the beautiful beach right in front of the main shopping street!

We walked up and down Front Street which is the main shopping street in Phillipsburg...

 





Finally finding the store I really wanted to find: The Belgian Chocolate Box...

 




where we bought several pieces of the most delicious white chocolate...if you visit St. Maarten, this is a must-see stop.

Since we had some time before we were due back on board the ship, we took an opportunity to walk along that beautiful beach and put our feet in the warm Caribbean waters...

 


Sadly, we eventually had to board the water taxi back to the ship (seen in the background in the picture above). We left St. Maarten knowing we would return very soon...even though it was only our first stop, we already knew St. Maarten would be our favorite stop of the trip.

Our next stop was the island of St. Kitts. I'll talk about that in my next post.

Thank you for visiting,

A Great Europe Trip Planner 

All photos in this post were taken by my husband and me during our Caribbean cruise in May, 2014.