Archive for the ‘Cabarete surf camp’ Category
This weekend hosts the Masters Surf Reunion at Playa Encuentro. A well organized event by Ricardo Ripoll, this competition will have some great surfers competing and the timing could not be better, with a nice big North swell arriving at the same time. Get yourself down to the beach to take part in the action [...]
Six months ago, we opened our new hotel. So far, it has been a success and we have had an overwhelmingly positive response from our clients. We’re not perfect, far from it in fact, but we’ve brought something new and fresh to a town that has suffered for the last 2 or more years from [...]
North swell arrived today – it won’t last more than 5 days or so, so at 5.30am we were on the road with our clients to make the best of it. A spot of rain didn’t spoil our day looks at Dan’s smile – he was leaving this afternoon and had a blast on his [...]
Hurrah! Energetic Tricia has brought a great new cafe to Cabarete, sited 1 km out of the town (short moto ride towards Sosua). She’s buying organic coffee direct from the makers and having it roasted to produce a flavor that is quite unique and quite the nicest I ever tried (move over Starbucks). I am [...]
We had a lot of fun last night – lucky to have a great group of guests staying with us and no-one was shy to square dance the night away. Jane Palmieri (one of our guests) turns out to be a Caller and kept us on our feet. It’s a good workout! On top of [...]
It’s been another good week in Cabarete and I’ve discovered that I forgot how fun it is to be busy. I sleep so well at night these days and it’s brought about normally by a good kind of exhaustion. The reaction to the hotel has been extremely rewarding for us. It’s so nice to hear [...]
It has been an exhausting, fun, interesting, eye-opening 3 weeks since Swell opened it’s doors. Jim, my partner had done a great job on marketing the hotel that we have been inundated with inquiries and clients. We have had some hairy moments and some of the best laughs I can remember in years. What chance of your [...]
I rarely enjoy a morning as much as I did this Sunday AM. Drew and I left for Encuentro at 6am – I was so sleepy. It was worth it however. After 3 or 4 years of encouraging him to surf (after all, we have the perfect spot on our doorstep) he was never ‘hooked’. [...]
Grass is going into the surf camp garden now. All the windows are fitted and next week, all the bathroom equipment will be in. This afternoon, we take delivery of another big container of furniture, etc. More and more enquiries to deal with each day – it looks like Christmas may already be pretty full! [...]
Two days of rather frustrating ‘nearly-wind’ but not…… Many of the tourists here do the right thing and bring their 10/11/12 metre kites (or even larger) but Jim and I have 7′s and 9′s and the last couple of days it just wasn’t quite enough to ride. Mid-August/September is storm season; the storms form off [...]