[SAINT THOMAS] Budget and Itinerary

SATURDAY: 26 March 2022

jetBlue (Newark - Saint Thomas) - 124.80

Airbnb (2 Nights/Charlotte Amalie) - 234.25

Taxi (Airport - Downtown) - 12.00

KFC (2 pc. Chicken w/ Fries & Coke) - 11.99

Taxi (Downtown - Magens Beach) - 10.00

Magens Beach (Strawberry Daiquiri + Pizza x3) - 24.25

Taxi (Magens Beach - Downtown) - 8.00

Biso Mini Mart (Groceries) - 12.00

USD437.29

[CHARLOTTE AMALIE] The Danish West Indies

Aside from seeing two Virgin Islands every year at Miss Universe, I know next to nothing about them. Now that the possibility of visiting both has come to fore, I decided to read up a bit. Who would’ve thought that Denmark used to have territories in the Caribbean? Apparently, the US Virgin Islands were once called the DANISH WEST INDIES before the United States purchased them in 1917 from the kingdom of then Denmark-Norway, pretty much the same thing they did buying Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines from the Spaniards. Island shopping much, ‘MERICA?