Winter In Puerto Rico

This was the tem­per­a­ture this morn­ing at my home in Puer­to Rico. Isn’t it great? Clic on the image to see it larger.

It’s win­ter in Puer­to Rico and it’s get­ting cold.  Sev­en­ty some­thing, that is.  But rather than just tell you about the com­fort­able “air-con­di­tion­er-like” cli­mate that the Island enjoys dur­ing this time of the year, I thought I might show you.

The image that’s on the right is a pho­to of the old Sun­beam ther­mome­ter that I have in my back porch.  It’s nev­er been below 65°. Never!

And I don’t show you this image to rub it in, but to invite you over.  Win­ter is the per­fect time of year to vis­it Puer­to Rico.  There’s an air of Christ­mas.  Peo­ple are hap­pi­er, the skies are bluer and the beach­es… well, let’s just say that you can lay back and relax on the sand in the mid­dle of Jan­u­ary.  Isn’t it great?

And if you stay at one of the Island’s many “paradores” (small­er fam­i­ly-run hotels) you might even have the beach all to yourself.

Back in Octo­ber I pub­lished a post titled “Puer­to Rico’s Blue Flag Beach­es, Part 1”  in which I spoke about four of the Island’s sev­en Blue Flag Beach­es.  But those were just the beach­es that car­ry the “Blue Flag” des­ig­na­tion.  Puer­to Rico has great beach­es every­where.  And best of all, they’re all free.

So I thought I’d show you some pret­ty pic­tures just so you’ll see what you’re missing.

And if you pre­fer to par­ty, par­ty, par­ty… instead of lay­ing all day at the beach, in lit­tle under a month we’ll be cel­e­brat­ing the “San Sebas­t­ian Street Fies­tas” (Las Fies­tas de la Calle San Sebastián) where close to half a mil­lion peo­ple gath­er in a lit­tle street in Old San Juan, that’s under a mile long, to dance, eat, drink and enjoy all sorts of pop­u­lar art until the wee hours.  It’s the world’s largest fes­ti­val tak­ing place in the month of Jan­u­ary (more about “la Sanse’” in a future post).

San Sebas­t­ian Street Fiestas

I know that win­ter start­ed pret­ty harsh on the main­land.  It’s all over the news!  And accord­ing to most experts it’s going to get even worse.  So why not take a cou­ple of weeks off and spend some qual­i­ty time in sun­ny Puer­to Rico?  Just imag­ine that blue Caribbean water, and the warm white sand, flow­ing between your toes while you take in one of our stun­ning Island sun­sets and sip on a cool refresh­ing bev­er­age.  Now that’s what I call win­ter in paradise!

So don’t wait anoth­er minute.  Make that reser­va­tion right now!

Mer­ry Christmas!

©2013,Orlando Mer­gal, MA
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