Trip to the Beach, A
by Melinda Blanchard, Robert Blanchard
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Author: Melinda Blanchard, Robert BlanchardEdition: Audio Cassette
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2000-10-10
ISBN: N/A
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Book Review: How Could You NOT Like this Book?
Summary: 5 Stars
The bitter reviews are totally undeserved and off-base. I felt like I was reading about some other book.
The Blanchards, who were probably the worst business people in the western world decide to open a little beach bar restaurant on the island of Anguilla. Things change when they find the perfect place, but the rent is thousands per month--way too much to build a beach bar. It has to be a fancy restaurant. Did it occur to them to negotiate or look for a cheaper place? They didn't say it did. So, they start designing and planning. They soon learn that most everything has to be imported from elsewhere. Melinda flies home to Vermont to pack everything and put the house on the market and then to Florida to buy EVERYTHING they'll need to build and furnish the restaurant. Bob is back in Anguilla supervising the construction. This is all Very Expensive. Just the customs duty on everything was staggering. Luckily, they had sold their former business which provided them with the dollars they needed--although, they came perilously close to running out of money.
The Blanchards respect and care for the people of Anguilla is obvious. The people of Anguilla seem to have accepted the Blanchards as citizens and friends. In fact, they still have most of the staff they originally hired when they started the restaurant.
I especially enjoyed the sailboat race story. Bob was asked to help build and crew a boat for some locals. He was thrilled to be asked. When he asked about how they were going to get a sail the group told him they hoped he would pay for it. "How much"? he asks. They tell him $2,400 and he says, "OK"!
The Blanchards worry about their son in college in Washington state, but there are no long winded boring phone conversations with him as someone else reported.
This book is not at all a "cure for insomnia" in fact, I found the opposite to be true. I stayed up too late reading it.
While I'm not sure I would like the Blanchards if I knew them and I'm a little disappointed that their newest venture means they can't spend much time on the island they wanted to spend the rest of their lives on--I still loved the book.
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