SXM: Location, Location

View from front porch.

This is the place we stayed.

In the years since my grandparents passed away our family has taken to staying in random locations on the island trying to find a new place to call home on their yearly trek. My parents travel to the island every xmas holiday mainly to take care of business concerns first and to relax second. The last few years they have taken to renting from a dear family friend who has a beautiful set of condos nestled in a crook between the peaks of St. Martin's "Mountains". The view is lovely as you look over both sides of the hill and can see a majority of the west side of the island.

If you look to the right of the place we were staying you can see a monstrosity that looks like the ruins of an old castle. Well it's not actually ruins. The rumor is the man who owns that property stole a bunch of money from a casino and is now building his own castle. So that is not an original part of the island, though people try to visit the "ruins" almost daily. I wonder what it will look like if he ever finishes it. And what makes you wake up some day and say "Today, I want to build a castle."