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Small Changes

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I’ve been playing with the idea of writing about something I’m passionate about for years. Additionally I said to myself that I need to have a fair amount of expertise about that topic as well. That’s how and why I started www.arubabeaches.net this year.
So far I’m very pleased with how things have been going, I [...]

Thank You!

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Indication of visitors to this site in last few days
This website is a few months old and is growing every day. I help many people with questions and inquiries regarding their upcoming travel to the southern Caribbean by giving the inside scoop.
Perhaps it’s premature to say thank you, but being a nice guy that [...]

Forget The Time, Relax

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This really off topic post is to give a suggestion when people are traveling the Caribbean.
Leave the watch behind. Forget about the time, you’re in the Caribbean to experience the Caribbean pace, to assimilate a little. Relax.
When you book something like a restaurant, excursion, transfer or whatever else please make sure you plan an extra [...]

Car rental companies removed their titles at the airport
In order to control quality of the service offered at the airport by car rental companies, the airport authority decided to change a few things.
Back in the 70’s, 80’s the few existing car rental companies in Aruba used to have a booth inside the airport, just [...]

5th Annual Aruba Music Festival

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Annual Aruba Music Festival is going to take place on October 5th and 6th, 2007 for the fifth consecutive year. This music festival is more dedicated towards the older traveler judging by the invited performers. In previous years big names like Lionel Richie, Styx, Queen, Chicago performed, meanwhile this year Richard Marx and Robin Gibb [...]

Growing Up Speaking Papiamento

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Something very unique about Aruba surely is the spoken language. In the whole world there are just over 300.000 people speaking this language, Papiamento, from which roughly one third is in Aruba. Experts categorize Papiamento as being a variation of Portuguese creole.
There are two different theories as to where exactly this language was born, one [...]