San Juan, Puerto Rico

Today was San Juan, Puerto Rico...I'll be honest I really don't like San Juan...and this trip didn't really change anything...although no junkie bleeding out on the sidewalk this time...but plenty of homeless passed out in doorways and street corners.

Ok, San Juan is an interesting place, the buildings are brightly painted in shades of pink, blue, yellow and aqua. The streets are very narrow cobblestone and the cobble stone is a beautiful deep blue. The old area is literally all up hill....the restaurants have intoxicating spicy fragrances wafting out of them and everything is written in Spanish.

It know my discription leaves one wondering why then do I dislike it? Well it's just it has the potential to be so beautiful, but it's rather run down and not exactly safe at night. For some reason, Royal Carribean always seems to port at 2pm and stay here until 10:30 pm. You are warned to be careful here at night...so me being me? It means I really have no desire to be here after dark and was back aboard the ship before sundown.

Now this does not mean we didn't do any thing...We walked up and down Old San Juan this afternoon hunting out the Starbucks we went to last time...no not for caffeine, but free wifi...LOL! ....when we finally found...it took over an hour, what did I do? I checked fb and called my sister....The MagicJack app is great! Trish wanted to know if I had picked up a San Juan souvenir for her at the Coach Outlet...to be fair she has had a rough couple of weeks....a favorite handbag she bough on our last trip to Watertown , NY broke, as did a spare she had, so she really does need one! LOL! Anyways, I hadn't but was on my way there next....so I said goodbye and I checked on Google maps where the outlet was in relation to the Starbucks and we walked about 0.8 of a mile to the outlet...I won't bore you with the details of handbags I looked at but I did pick up two (2) handbags, one for Trish and one for me....yup the perfect San Juan souvenir!....LOL!

Tomorrow we are in St. Maarten...this is a favorite island of ours. Last time we sailed 12 meter yachts...this time we are visiting a butterfly farm and going to Marigot....

Good Night from San Juan!

Megan & Peter

One example of the streets in Old San Juan...barely enough room for a car to traverse...see the colors of the buildings?

Hard to capture the color but it's dark blue with flecks of white...reminiscent of the waves at sea

 

I forget the name but the translation is chapel of Christ, built in the 14th or 15 th century...Peter insisted on taking the picture with me in it....

Here another vantage point for the chapel

 

San Juan Port Authority

 

And here are the best San Juan Souvenirs! (love you Trish! xoxoxxo!)