Sole Mare Restaurant, Aruba (video)

Sole Mare Restaurant offers fine Italian food to Aruba’s visitors and locals alike. The restaurant is located close to the high-rise hotel area. Reservations are highly recommended as this place fills up around seven and remains busy through the evening. Here is a short video of the meal we had last night.

The typical dishes you would expect are done very well here. You can count on the veal parmigiana, the various pasta concoctions, and the daily specials to be to your liking. Especially tasty is the fried polenta that is brought to your table soon after you sit down. This is a crispy on the outside – perfect on the inside type of starter. Just don’t eat too much or you won’t have room for everything else.

Bon dia from Aruba.

Published in: on November 19, 2008 at 11:16 am  Leave a Comment  
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My Front Office (video)

For those readers of this blog who claim that I don’t really use a fountain pen, please check out the following video. It’s not exactly my front office, but a place across the street from my house in Aruba where I do some writing from time to time. Here’s the video:

That’s a Mont Blanc 146 pen I’m using with Mont Blanc blue ink. Not that you can tell precisely because the video degrades on YouTube. Still, I’m there working away, spilling words onto the page that will eventually get typed into my computer, edited, and hopefully come out of the printer as a worthy story. You never know. However, with a view like this, the words come easier.

Stay tuned, I’ll post some more videos of my writing haunts and fountain pens in action just for fun.

Bon dia from Aruba.

Published in: on November 18, 2008 at 10:32 am  Leave a Comment  
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Matthew’s Restaurant, Aruba (video)

Matthew’s Restaurant is located at the Casa del Mar complex in the low-rise hotel area of Aruba. It fronts the beach and you can hear the ocean lapping the shore while you eat. We stopped there for lunch yesterday, as both my wife and I had a hankering for a cheeseburger. Well, we chose the right place. Check out this video for proof.

Service here is friendly and attentive. The prices are a little high until you consider you are beachside and on an island in the Caribbean. The menu has many more items, so give it a try for more than a cheeseburger. They also serve dinner, which I’m sure is quite nice given the setting. It’s places like this that make Aruba a sure bet for travelers from all over the world.

Bon dia!

Published in: on November 17, 2008 at 10:41 am  Leave a Comment  
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Eagle Beach, Aruba (video)

Eagle Beach is one of the largest and best beaches in Aruba, if not the entire Caribbean. As the number of hotels and condos has increased in Aruba, people talk about the beaches getting crowded. Sometimes they are crowded but many times, as you’ll see in this video, there is more than enough space. Take a look:

As you can see, there was hardly anyone on the beach. This video was taken on a Friday, about the middle of the morning. All you need to enjoy Eagle Beach is suntan lotion, a towel, and the right attitude. May I recommend a good book?

Bon dia from Aruba.

Published in: on November 16, 2008 at 11:25 am  Leave a Comment  
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