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Posted by New Brunswick Station on Wed Jan 4 12:32:28 2006, in response to The Buses of Puerto Rico, posted by New Brunswick Station on Wed Jan 4 10:31:26 2006. Curacao has interesting architecture and an interesting, diverse, bus scene, with large Mercedeses sharing the street with smaller Toyotas and, oh yeah, the occasional car-rental hand-me-down Blue Birds (one of which wound up our tour bus, which once belonged to Budget).Here's our bus:  And its spacious interior:  And the cruise-ship-port depot from which it left:  Notice that tour buses on Curacao are often painted white; I don't know why. We rode to the Caves of Hato - and found a few full-size motorcoaches and one or two other vehicles.      We looked out at Willemstad from the top of a high bridge straddling the harbor inlet.  As cruise ships are getting too big to enter the harbor through the inlet, there is now a new port on the outside of town. This was the result:  Also note that a pontoon bridge, a landmark, is missing. That bridge has been ferried elsewhere on the isle and is under repair - it will be back by the end of 2007 (if not, indeed, 2006). After the high bridge, we rode into town, paid the driver, said bye bye, and walked around.  Advertising bus  Shalom to our bus  Public bus near Willemstad public market  We had to take a ferry across the harbor inlet because the pontoon bridge was under repair and thus missing. That was cool. When we got back to NJ, we took a minibus to our valet parking lot (probably cheaper than airport main parking lots, and probably more convenient, too). We had to wait at a spot designated, ironically, for NJT public buses... oh dear. In addition, Mom was scared that I might "go to jail" for "taking pictures at airports". LOL. Even in places with photobans, I've never come across a cop willing to arrest people for photography! (However, yeah, there has been plenty of harassment in such places - in the form of people saying "No pictures". Newark Airport's bus dropoff/pickup areas were NOT among those places.)  |
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