Cwater
Senior Insider
We honeymooned in St. Barths in 1987. I had never been to the Caribbean and Cheryl had many times. Since we were going in June we needed an Island that had tradwins. She found St. Barths. Back then it had not been discovered yet. We honeymooned at El Sereno. I remember that when we traveled out of JFK we were the only ones with a beach umbrella on the luggage racks. The restaurants were amazing...Guanahani the first night, Le Pelican, Innes Ghetto, Au Port, Le Select, L”Annais, Le Flamboyant up in the hills by the tennis courts and of course Chez Francine I believe was the name on the beach at St. Jean where we had the most delicious baby shark ever. We also had breakfast at a place called Eden Rock before it was the current manifestation. A housekeeper cooked us breakfast on the veranda. The greatest take away was this...exhausted at the end of the first day we were getting ready for sleep. We took our lenses out and place the in those old containers that plugged into the electrical socket to cook its bad stuff away. We were shocked when we went to plug them in since the plugs didn’t work. No one informed us about 120 or 220. We freaked out! Called the front desk at around 12 midnight. The chef from the restaurant called us to the kitchen. He surveyed the situation and placed our lens recepticals in a pot of boiling water. That is what we did every night. Yes the restaurants the beaches the food the drinks the layed back ambience...every night when I take my lenses out I reach back to that honeymoon at St. Barths when the head chef boiled our lenses every night. How about you? What made you fall in love with St. Barths? We are returning this May.
