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Harris PUBLISHER Thierry Pouille PRODUCTION MANAGER Guillaume Fabry ADVERTISING MANAGER Meredith Howard Telephone: +1 (561) 841-1551 ext. 7 [email protected] CORPORATE OFFICES 1931 Commerce Lane, Suite 5 Jupiter, FL 33458 Telephone: +1 (561) 841-1551 Fax: +1 (954) 252-3935 RATES AND MEDIA KIT INFORMATION ONLINE AT www.ContrailsMag.com or call +1 (561) 841-1551 FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS, REPRINTS, BACK ISSUES please log onto www.ContrailsMag.com or call +1 (561) 841-1551 CONTACT THE EDITOR: [email protected] CONTACT THE PUBLISHER: [email protected] ©2014 CONTRAILS Magazine is published quarterly. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. Please send comments to the attention of the publisher. PRINTED IN THE USA. FALL 2015.2 I CONTRAILS I 7 Publisher’s Letter THE ANSWER TO THE WINTER DOLDRUMS By Thierry Pouille always feel as if I need and the very private resort there shares the same name. You y an attitude adjustment into Canouan Island airport (CIW) and board a private boat when we’re making to take the rest of the way to the resort. e resort’s 22 accom- this transition from the modations are spread all along the island’s beaches, giving you warm and wonderful the ultimate in idyllic tropical privacy. Should you ever want I summer months to the to leave your hideaway, there are two restaurants and a spa for routine of winter. Daylight your pleasures. Savings Time ends. It’s Next we (I say “we” because I am not foolish enough to attempt dark outside at 4:30 in the an adventure like this without taking my wife!) visited the Jumby aernoon and, of course, Bay Resort, which several times I’ve heard described as simply the weather over most of the the nest resort in all of the Caribbean. Surely it’s on everyone’s United States is, well, wintry. short list. e white-powdered sandy beaches are honestly Given the alleged eects of Global Warming, you just don’t breathtaking. You can relax in one of the thatched bohios or the know what kind of weather this winter will bring. To tell the hammocks strung truth, sometimes it all makes me a bit grumpy. Or at least so my between the palms. Canouan Island airport sta tells me! It’s a great place to I also confess that I spend a fair amount of time just gazing watch the sun go at the map of the entire world in my oce. It brings up special down over Antigua. memories from remarkable trips we’ve taken to just about every ABC News and inch of the world, and it also serves as fertile new ground for me Good Morning, to discover new destinations that so far we’ve le untouched. America! selected is particular day, aer grumping about the weather and Carlisle Bay in grumping about the fact that’s it’s already dark when I leave the Antiqua one of the oce, I found myself “zoomed in,” if you will, to that part of the top 10 Caribbean world that starts at my front door here in Florida and continues resorts — period. down across the Caribbean and on into South America. is resort gets At rst blush, it sounds like such an expanse — Florida all the great marks as a way to South America! But in truth it’s only about 1,500 nm, a family destination cakewalk for us kerosene burners. In fact, if you really want to so take a look at take a good look, it breaks down like this: e rst 500 miles their website before cover the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos; the next 500 miles you make your nal cover Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands; and the selection. last 500 miles cover a remaining few islands before crossing the We also toured the shoreline into South America. amazing Viceroy and Malliouhana resorts in Anguilla, which Why, I don’t know, but suddenly my grumpiness lied when was worth every drop of jet fuel to get there. On our way back, this silly idea came into my head. What would it be like to have we also stopped in the Dominican Republic to visit Casa Colo- breakfast in Florida, lunch in the Virgin Islands and dinner in nial and the Gansevoort, a member of a hotel group that even the Grenadines? I couldn’t think of a single reason not to do it. has a location in New York City. Both of these destinations are So o I went and accomplished that very dream in a single day. the kinds of place where you can literally spend a week or two Did a lot for my overall mood! and never have to leave the resort.
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