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      <image:title>Blog - Our journey, Chapter 13: St. Christopher - The botanical gardens on St. Kitts are at Romney Manor, which was once owned by Samuel Jefferson, who was an ancestor of Thomas Jefferson.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Our journey, Chapter 13: St. Christopher - A quick aside, I am including a pic of Rudel, who bartends at the pool, as a special favor for one of our readers, who when I mentioned the Marriott, lit up and simply said, “Rudel!”</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Our journey, Chapter 7: A breath of fresh air - Soon, we were off to the Yacht Club. Now, “Yacht Club” can evoke images of snootiness with the elite rubbing elbows with others of their kind. Nope. Not this one. The St. Thomas Yacht Club is once again island shabby and the people couldn’t have been nicer. We even found the St. Pete bergee on display and sent a pic of it to our good friends Paul and Barb, who live there in Florida. They are members of the St. Pete Yacht Club with reciprocal rights to the one here, so they can come any time they are in St. Thomas, which may have had something to do with Barb encouraging us to strongly consider a home here. Wink, wink.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Our journey, Chapter 7: A breath of fresh air - The exteriors of the condos are more than a bit 70’s. I am pretty sure Erin, who loved mid-twentieth century architecture, would approve. And, the front door looks like the entrance to a hobbit’s home. I seriously expected Bilbo Baggins to throw the door open to greet us. After some disappointing housing experiences over the last couple of weeks, I held my breath as we opened the door. To our complete delight, we discovered the pictures we had seen on VRBO of the “newly redecorated” condo, if anything, understated the look and feel of the unit. It was clean, nicely decorated and very well appointed.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Our journey, Chapter 7: A breath of fresh air - The condo is located on Cowpet Bay, thus the name. I can’t help wonder how the bay, itself, became Cowpet. Adding to this mystery, there are two small isles we can see from our balcony in the condo, called Cow Rock and Calf Rock. Why such a fixation with cattle? A sign on the beach clearly states, “No pets allowed”. What if I had a pet cow? It would only seem fair to let me have it here. I guess some things will just remain enigmatic.</image:title>
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