Music, dancing, sand, food, drink, sun, and relaxation. . . .
May 15, 1999 - Site Map - Click to enlarge pictures

Good tasting beach food, reasonable prices, and live music and dancing on Sundays. The crowd is nice, a mixture of locals, tourists and expats. Currently performing at a reasonable volume are the High Tension Reggae Band with Tap (and Tap's wife Gwen in the kitchen).

Of course Elodia's is open on other days too, but the live music adds a special touch. Easy parking. Telephone: 264-497-3363.

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ELODIA'S BEACH BAR & GRILL May 1999 Prices. SANDWICHES: FISH SANDWICH - 9.50 HAMBURGER - 7.00 CHEESEBURGER - 8.00 GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH - 6.00 HOT DOGS - 5.00 CHICKEN SANDWICH - 8.00 (All Sandwiches served with fries) DESSERTS: ICE CREAM (Assorted Flavours)- 3.00 CHEESE CAKE - 4.00 COFFEE OR TEA - - 1.50 MEALS: B.B.Q. CHICKEN - 8.00 B.B.Q. SPARERIBS - 10.00 COMBO - 12.00 CHICKEN SALAD - 9.00 GARDEN SALAD - 7.00 GRILLED CRAYFISH - 17.00 GRILLED LOBSTER (1.5lbs) - 25.00 SHRIMP - 15.00 GRILLED FISH OF THE DAY - 13.00 GRILLED STEAK (Sirloin- Rib Eye- Tenderloin) - 12.00 PORK - 10.00 PORK KEBAB - 10.00 All main dishes served with Salad, Cole Slaw, Garlic Bread, and Fries or Rice. All prices quoted in U.S. dollars. Good until about December 1, 1999.

Directions: from the airport parking lot, take the only exit and turn left, continue straight past Island Car Rental, the National Bank and through the intersection at Albert Lakes Market. Continue straight for about 2 miles through the villages of Stoney Ground and Little Dix, then take a paved left turn down the hill and into Shoal Bay. At the end of the road, 50 yards before the beach, take a right turn on a dirt road, go 200 yards, through the gate for Elodia's and down to the beach parking lot.

Trip Report April 1999 3 night stay
by Andy Arden (email: [email protected])

This was our third trip to Anguilla and it was in celebration of our 15 year wedding anniversary.

Our flight out from St. Lucia to Anguilla was via Antigua with Liat. The flight was on time and without any problems. Upon leaving customs we were met at the airport by the Cap Juluca representative who had a taxi waiting for us.

Upon arrival at the hotel we were greeted by guest relations and handed rum punches to enjoy during check in. Our villa was a one bedroom suite, with a huge bedroom that opened to the beach and a large beautiful bathroom - separate shower that led to a private sun bathing area, huge double tub - enclosed toilet and bidet area and dual sinks.

We had lunch at their George's Restaurant and it was good, $40.00 for 2. Continental Breakfast was served every morning on time on our patio. The in-room refrigerator is well stocked with water, soda, beer etc. No charge.

The hotel is still great and the service was excellent. This island has great, very friendly people and they are all very helpful with answering a question. The beaches and restaurants are great. E-mail me with any questions.

Thanks to all the local businesses for making our 15 year wedding anniversary celebration special. Extra thank you to the staff and management at Cap Juluca, "Guish" - GM, and Patricia Bryan - Resident Manager.. It was like being "home again".

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Sandals and Such is open all year, except for September when they buy the new stock.

The manager is Graceland Hawley of Sandy Hill, and the owner is Jan Tarbert, who rescued the building from demolition and had it restored. She started in 93, went through Hurricane Luis with the old cottage, and is still going strong. Telephone: 1-264-497-6009.

Directions: from the airport parking lot, take the only exit and turn left, then turn left again and drive past the airport, through the roundabout and west down the main island road. Avoid the right turn at the next roundabout and enter South Hill. Go past the Methodist Church, bear left, then right, and watch for Sandals and Such on the right just before the Blowing Point turnoff. If you reach Connors Rent a Car, you went 50 yards too far.

Notice: The Anguilla Local News web site is now on "summer schedule", or "island time". This means that we will publish a new issue "not-possibly-more-often-than" once per month.

The Valley Methodist Church has services every Sunday at 9am (up Crocus Hill toward Koal Keel restaurant). However, May has 5 Sundays and the service on the last Sunday will be at 6am.

Here are some events scheduled for the next few weeks:

May 15, tonight. Reggae concert at Landsome Bowl.

May 17. National Culinary Team Dinner. Pimms. 7pm $40 pp. 497-2944, 497-6061.

May 22. Education Dept Street Fair. 11am to 6pm. Street closed off near the high school for music, Anguillan foods, sales, crafts and more. Everyone invited.

May 23. Aldersgate Sunday for Methodists. Special service at Bethel Methodist Church in South Hill.

May 24. Whit Monday, public holiday.

May 28. DeBrodah's Gospel concert at Landsome Bowl.

May 30. National Service of Thanksgiving. St. Mary's Anglican Church, The Valley.

May 31. Anguilla Day, public holiday.

May 31. Last opportunity to register for this summer's Art Festival.

June 14. Queen's Birthday, public Holiday.

Read all about it on their airport pickup web page, with pictures of exactly what you will see, a small map and everything you need to make your arrival feel familiar.

If your flight arrives earlier or later in the day, you can ask them about chartering the Link to pick you up.

Strange Object in the Sky?
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999
From: Stuart and Valerie Roberts
Email: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Unknown Object

On Wednesday, May 5, 1999, my husband and I were eating dinner at Oliver's. I was looking up the coast in a Northeast direction (I think) when I saw what appeared to be a very large "ball of fire" , or possibly a meteorite coming out of the low level clouds and into the ocean. As it was after dark, between 8 and 9 pm, I had no perspective on how far away this object was, but it did appear rather large. Has anyone else reported seeing a similar object that night? Please respond with any information you have.

Thanks, Valerie Roberts

Fond Memories.
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]


Many years ago I spent one of my most memorable vacations in the small place called Anguilla. They were just starting to build some fancy hotels out on some remote beach. I stayed in a place at Sandy Ground owned by Gumbs. Is the place still there? Was it called the White House by any chance? It seems to ring a bell. There was Johnnos on the beach then, still there? One day I will go back but much harder now that I live all the way over here in Hawaii (Big Island).

Fond memories, Ernie

Read about bathroom finishing, faux tiles, decorating the porch, air conditioning, Insteel panels, the search for bandwidth, and the uninterruptible solar power at the new Beachtech Technology Center. Then read the other 19 construction reports and visit the tropical building bookstore.

Hansa.Net has a nice realistic web page describing the sometimes tricky steps an e-commerce business must go through to take advantage of Anguilla's tax system.

Devonish.ai, has been redone. Click here for the new web site for Courtney Devonish's gallery at George Hill Landing.

You need to have access to an ISP that operates in your local area. In Anguilla this is Cable and Wireless (1-264-497-3100). Click here for more details on connecting to Cable and Wireless.

Many people who travel a lot use IBM.Net, AT&T, Compuserve or AOL, since these providers have access in almost every major city (at least in the USA).

In your favorite email softare, such as Microsoft Outlook or Eudora, there is an option to set your POP3, and SMTP mail addresses. You don't need to know what these mean, you just need to know that POP3 is for picking up email and SMTP is for sendng email. Normally these are both set to point at your local provider. In order to send email when you are away from home, you need to change the SMTP address (you will also have to figure out how to logon to the foreign ISP, see link above for Anguilla).

1. The SMTP address needs to be set to the address of the local provider that you logon to... in Anguilla this is mail.anguillanet.com
2. The POP3 address needs to be set to where your email gets picked up. When you are accessing a POP3 "server" from another ISP, you will be asked for your password. Note, it is the password you would use on your home ISP login.

Don't forget to change your SMTP address when you return home.

There is another approach which avoids changing your software. Use a free email account such as Yahoo. Using Yahoo mail, there is an option to check your external email which will requires you supply the same pop3 information and password as in 2. above. Yahoo remembers this, so each time you want to access your mail you can ask it to check "external" and it will get your email. With this approach you can check your email from any browser, even the one at the library.

One last point to watch out for; when you are away, it is suggested that you set the option for deleting your email off. That way when you return home no email will be lost, although you will have to wade through it again.

Hope this helps,

Dave Thomas