Your St Barts - guide to Saint Barthelemy

Wow! Has St Barts Island seen some major celebrity activity lately!!  The Christmas/New Year holiday was especially busy given the fact that  there was a super-exclusive party aboard Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Octopus, a 414 foot private yacht that takes the prize as the 6th largest, private yacht, in the world.  Who was there? How [...]

With the location and weather, it’s not wonder that Victoria’s Secret was back on St Bart’s Island for another photo shoot recently.  This time, they had model Karolina Kurkova in tow.  Leggy and blond, she is a beautiful woman and is perfect for Victoria’s Secret. Karolina started her career and the tender age of 15 [...]

St Barts Island :: Fisherman Blockade ~ Photo Courtesy of :: CharterWave.com On Monday, December 17th, I got the strangest phone call from a friend – he said that there was a blockade enforced on St Barts Island. What?!?  It appears that local fisherman were more than a little upset over the news of the [...]

A new swimwear line recently launched: LaLangosta N.A. – and where did it get tons of free publicity?  Right here on a St Barts beach when Catherine Zeta-Jones donned one in yellow.              LaLangosta creates high-end, one-of-a-kind swimwear that is intended for a discerning audience.  Each suit is hand-beaded, and therefore, it can be said that [...]

St Barts Book :: Paradise Found :: Photo Credit ~ Amazon.com Okay, okay….yes, I’m still surfing around Amazon!  But I couldn’t go before I recommended this book about St Barts; "Paradise Found: The people, restaurants and recipes of St. Barthélemy" by Robert Brooks. Ranking 8th in books about travel to the French West Indies, this book has [...]

Recently, when surfing the Internet, looking for other people stories of their visits to St Barts Island, I came across this website, GetJealous. This site is devoted to those who travel, and want to share their experiences.  It’s really pretty cool.  So, I was really excited when I found this travel diary, posted by user [...]

The paparazzi come to St Barts island, all year long, but they are especially prevalent during December and January, when we have the most celebrity traffic.  We island residents hate them.  Why? Because they make a mockery of the core value of the island: tranquility.  One of the reasons that most of us enjoy St [...]

Here on St Barts Island, we’ve been playing host to TV late-night great David Letterman for years. As with any celebrity vacation sighting, there has been no shortage of press coverage about Mr. Letterman’s vacation to the island.  In fact, this article, which is actually about Usher enjoying Saline Beach with a female companion, mentions [...]

St Barts Celebrities: Here is an article from the Toronto Sun, where Mariah Cary talks about her body trainer that she flies from St Barts to New York.   Mariah Carey recently spoke about her body and how she keeps in shape. "I don’t feel like you have to be a size zero. We should [...]