Even for someone like me - living now, in 2005 - this trip was full of magic; - but, what might Christopher Columbus have thought had he been on our flight? Magic? Devilment? Or, perhaps, some other thoughts? After all, he was the man who put an end to the superstition that sailing west meant falling off the 'end of the world'.

It was beyond that, also Columbus who, quite literally, put this island on the map when he discovered and named it St. Martin on November 11, 1493, after the saint of that day (St. Martin of Tours ... (more)