My stay at Saint Martin (Sint Marteen) Some years ago, my sister, her husband and I, spent a week on the island of Saint Martin. It was around Christmas. The island is divided into two parts : one part is French and the second one is Dutch. During our stay, we made some shopping and visited the French part of the island. We went to the Princess Juliana Airport. In fact, we went to a beach near the airport. Many tourists go there because when the planes are about to land, they fly above the beach at a low altitude. Imagine that on the right there is the beach, on its left a road, then the airport. The beach is beautiful but it smells bad. It smells kerosene. I was surprised some people were bathing and some people were sunbathing while the conditions are not that safe and healthy. There is a restaurant by the beach where you can read the time of departures and arrivals of the planes. So people come and see the planes landing but people also come to see the planes take off. Indeed, when a plane takes off, its engines are directed towards the beach and sometimes it blows so much "wind" that you can be blown away and fall violently on the ground. It can be dangerous. Moreover, the sand is whipped up and it hurts your skin. It's an experience to try but honestly after 10 minutes, it is enough. I wonder how some people do to stay a whole hour on the beach or near the airport. It's not healthy and safe. We also visited a "butterfly farm". It was really cool, it was my first time. We could put some sugar (I think it was sugar) on our fingers and the butterflies came and landed on our fingers. There were butterflies of many kinds, sizes and colors. We had a good time. We also entered a casino for fun (for the first time). I sat by a slot machine and my sister took a pic of me. We were asked to leave because we were not clients. We visited some markets too. We visited Santa Claus' House. It's a house which is decorated for Christmas inside and outside. It attracts a lot of people. I've never seen a house being that decorated for Christmas. There is music and decoration everywhere, even on the roof. I also ate for the first time at Burger King's and found that the size of the burgers was huge compared to the ones I was used to eat at Mc Donald's in France. Our room at the apartment building was good but the view was amazing at night. The colors were beautiful and every morning, we could hear a parrot in a tree. We enjoyed our stay at Saint Martin. Below was the view from our flat.