Christina’s Journey Journal

Tag: The Netherlands

  • Curacao 🇨🇼 – Days 1 & 2

    Curacao 🇨🇼 – Days 1 & 2

    A quick getaway with my sister for some tropical fun-in-the-sun in this southern Caribbean island.

    We’re here! This Dutch Caribbean Island is home to 151k+ people, coral reefs, beautiful beaches, and an official language called Papiamentu, a Creole language based primarily in Portuguese & Spanish. It is also spoken on their sister islands, Aruba and Bonaire
    (aka The ABC Islands)
    Lots of “blue”💙 in the drinks! Of course! Curaçao is the home to Curacao liqueur, created when a local figured out how to use the rinds of the citrus fruit known as laraha (similar to an orange)
    Preparing a mid afternoon snack
    Crazy for coconuts! 🥥 🌴
    Sunset from our balcony Day 1
    Sunset from our balcony Day 2
    Incredible dinner at Gouverneur de Rouville. We started with spicy banana soup and then shared the Caribbean Chicken and the Keshi Yena. The latter is a traditional Curacao dish – cheese stuffed with chicken, onions, olives and prunes.
    It was out-of-this-world delicious!
    Walking through a rainbow 🌈
    Queen Emma Bridge, Willemstad, Curacao
    This pontoon bridge was originally built in 1888. It’s been renovated 4 times and the lighting arches were added in 1955
    🔒 ❤️All the locks of love!❤️ 🔒
    Such a great word.
    Dushi in Papiamentu means sweet, nice or good.
    When there are roses, you stop and smell them. When there’s this on your walking path, you stop and swing!