Many vacation home owners and winter residents in Eleuthera attest to when they first got here, and the allure that kept them coming back and ultimately investing in a home or property. Pierre and Trish revealed that there are both pros and cons to investing on island that they are considering.
Island Property... “Did it come up? Oh, has it ever! We look at every lot that’s for sale down here. There are four houses nearby this vacation property, and we’ve met three of the four people, and actually get together now with a couple there, who happens to be from Connecticut, where Trish is originally from. We keep saying to them, maybe we should buy - I don’t know. The issue is, we would love to have a place here, but we already have two. We have a house in Montreal, and a house on the coast of Maine, and that’s a fair amount of upkeep. The other reason is it’s not easy to get here. In Montreal, if something happens in Maine, in five hours - I’m there. Here, I’ve got to fly from Montreal to Toronto, then Toronto to Nassau and Nassau to here. It’s a day. Those are the downsides. The upsides are, look, look at the weather, and this view. There’s something else I want to tell you that we love about
Message in a bottle: ...It is written by the Spanish midshipman Andres Sanz de Geda on board of Juan Sebastian de Elcano. I write this message on March 27,2017 at 0335 Zulu time. we are in situation 22 54 64 nand 27 17 66 w. 600 nautical miles west of Cape Burlos (Mauritania) in demand of Santo Domingo. This is not an emergency message. It is simply
a romantic act. To know that the bottle arrived at your destination, please write an email to: Don Alvaro Sanz de Ojeda. (alvaro.santojeda@gmail. com). (esant@caminos.upm.es). Thank you very much senior. On board at sea, on March 27,2017, two days before the anniversary of my father Pablo. Andrew IT IT Sharks
this island - the culture. It’s unpretentious, uncomplicated, nobody’s got airs, and everyone is so friendly. There are just nice folks. We’ve been to other Caribbean islands, where some people think they are God’s gift to the world, and the culture of the places are just totally different. We see it in restaurants here with the people who serve us, and in another context we could be serving them. So we get that really nice, kind and friendly treatment from them. Also in stores, in gift shops, and where ever we go, the local folks seem to have the culture of being friendly to outsiders like us, and that’s very important to me.” Before heading to the north side beach close to their villa for a fun photo shoot, the Brunet’s shared their experience of finding a bona fide bottle with a message, during one of their many beach-combing escapades. The note inside, was written in Spanish, by a midshipman aboard a vessel called the ‘Juan Sebastian de Elcano’, plying the waters of the Atlantic, off of Mauritania (West Africa) during March of 2017. He gave the current coordinates of his ship, assuring the reader that the letter was not an emergency, but a curiosity, about where it would finally make landfall - and invited the finder to make contact through email…
the letter
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