It is a select few who deep down crave the luxury of gold plated faucets and gold threaded slipped in the bathroom. That is not the majority by any measure. For the average person who sees life through more clearer lenses, life is real and affinity to nature as real as possible is what it is all about. Getting on a plane to go on vacation does not need to be on a pretentious private jet with pink champaign on tap. The ride is just a means to cross a span of distance. Nothing more. For these people there exists a little heaven in earthly waters. The curtain bluff in the West Indies.
A simple cup of tea, is really just that – a cup of tea. There is no need to sprinkle rare saffron threads or dust it with 24 carat gold. The tea is just brewed, and not by a on hand butler, it is seeped by you and your companion in a ritual that is part of the experience. It is done in the privacy of your own table, not the privacy of an entire beach, for what is a vacation in isolation. Part of recharging is to be among other people. Humans are social animals and as such being surrounded by other is invigorating. A curtain bluff vacation will do just that. Place you in the midst of others and place you in a position of being served, just enough but not to the point of being ridiculous.
The resort is laced by sand that is not gleaming while but us almost a shade of salmon pink. Its probably from the millennia of crushing the waves have brought to bear on the corals and shells that lined the island. Bein
g on curtain bluff is like taking a break from the monotony of the dally grind but the amenities are simple and the service is exacting. Not to the point that is makes you dread the return trip. Many people go on lavish vacations just to feel depressed when they return to reality. Thats not a vacation. That is a set up for a fall. As the evenings wind down, the rooms along curtain bluff settles in and look out to an ocean that has gentled its condition by evening - its respite before the next assault of high tide in a few hours. Once the watery horizon eclipses the crimson sun, the deepening sky reveals the galaxy on display. On a clear night when the moon is elsewhere on errand, the stars shine brilliantly and it lays you to slumber with peace all around.
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