Johan Ramakers
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Mar 31
A Fourteen Day Trans-Atlantic Princess Cruise
A Fourteen day trans-atlantic Princess cruise was on the menu, now that a land vacation seemed out of the question because of Covid concerns and different international procedures. Beyond a 5 days Bahama’s cruise on Carnival in 2016, we had not done much cruising except for some Caribbean Tallship Trips when Windjammer Barefoot Charters operated …
Feb 10
Caught on Beaver Island as Covid 19 becomes a global pandemic
After a couple of years globetrotting as interim innkeepers, we decided in 2019, to reply to a job offer on the website workingcouples.com, for a seasonal management job on Beaver Island in northern Lake Michigan. Boutique Hotel Beaver Island Lodge with 14 rooms and suites and a separate log cabin was looking for operational managers …
Mar 31
AirBNB’ing Our Stomping Grounds on St.Martin
For our winter travels we decided this year on a monthlong Airbnb’ing our Stomping Grounds on St.Martin in the West Indies. We left our life on St.Maarten where we had met in 2004, during the Great Recession in 2008/09 as the economy had decimated tourism and consequently our internet related marketing and promotion businesses. Han …
Feb 06
Arriving at New York’s JFK Airport as Covid 19 is on the Rise
Back in the Netherlands from our Portugal trip – the return flight from Faro with KLM subsidiary airline Transavia encountered foggy skies in Eindhoven and we were redirected to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Facing the option of being transported to Eindhoven by bus from Amsterdam, which could take several hours past midnight, we decided to take …
Jan 30
Two Weeks in Portugal’s Algarve Region
It was early January 2020 – Covid 19 was just an inch away from stopping the world in its travel tracks – and we were in the Netherlands visiting our family and being that it was winter, it was very cold, dreary and damp. Typical weather for Holland in the early days of the year. …
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