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SAGA Humane Society's COOK-OFF of CHAMPIONS Plus An AMAZING Opportunity
Spoiler alert: The very BEST part of this post is at the very end.Almost every month, SAGA does a cook-off...a fun competition where restaurants and individual chefs donate dishes that serve 60....
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Beautiful Souvenirs & Delicious Desserts: Kakaw's Chocolate Boutique Opens in...
I am always on the look-out for great souvenir places with Belizean made products to recommend. And even more....ALWAYS looking for a place that does great desserts (an often over-looked or super...
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Island Academy Does It Again: The 17th Annual Holiday Pageant
The Island Academy put on an amazing Christmas show again! These kids work amazingly hard to put on a very serious production. This year's theme was Christmas lists in today's world. Tweeting,...
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SAGA's Cook-Off Of Champions Packs Wet Willy's with Supporters
Last night SAGA Humane Society held a Cook-off of Champions to raise money for the animals of San Pedro. An invitational competition with all of our winners from our 2012 monthly themed cook-offs....
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Judging the Christmas Lights of San Pedro: It Ain't Easy
Each year, our local newspaper, the San Pedro Sun, hits the streets to find some of the best holiday lights and displays around. I was asked to judge for the second year in a row. Well...let's be...
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Marching Bands, Carolers and TONS of People Support Duran Family at Wayo's
On Saturday evening, the beach street in Boca Del Rio was diverted to make way for a fundraising block party at Wayo's Beach Bar.A very worthy cause...Hector Duran was killed accidentally just a few...
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GingerScoop: A Fairy Tale Night At El Secreto On Ambergris Caye, Belize
I got invited to head almost 10 miles north to the new private, luxurious resort of El Secreto. I jumped at the chance to experience something new. Wow. That is all I can say about the evening. The...
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The Beginning of a New Era: Sunrise Maya Ceremony On the Beach of Ambergris...
Last night and this morning the National Institute of Culture and History along with the San Pedro Town Council put on quite a show for the end of the Maya calendar. When I arrived at the park today at...
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Pressing My Luck in San Pedro: Bingo and The Casino at the Belize Yacht Club
Friday night bingo at the Lions' Den in San Pedro is always good times. (Another time that I went: Bingo at the Lions' Den.) It's always a hugely varied crowd. Tourists and locals, kids, teenagers,...
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MELT Brings Some Seriously Delicious Comfort Food to San Pedro, Belize
Based on my possibly problematic addiction to the Food Network and the Travel Channel, it seems like that food-wise, the last few years have been all about fancifying classic American comfort food....
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Christmas Eve Party At Royal Palms, San Pedro, Belize
In San Pedro, Belize, Christmas Day was beautiful. Gorgeous weather. Warm and sunny with a nice cooling breeze. In the afternoon, my condo community had a little get-together. Everyone brought way...
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A Beautiful Day and One of the Island's Best Ceviches
The weather right now is gorgeous...warm and sunny with a good cool breeze. And what may be even more gorgeous? We can expect sunny clear skies for...oh...maybe the next 4 to 6 months. Not every...
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2012: From Guanaja to A State Fair to Medellin...Good Times, Part One
This year has been pretty cool. Taking a year to travel...to blab, to turn 39 (the joke age) and to look at Belize in a totally different way has been...well...awesome. I am no writer, definitely no...
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GingerScoop: A Sunset Cruise on the Lady Leslie
As a cold front has hit San Pedro (it is a wopping 68 degrees outside) and I sit here drinking my hot tea with a box of Kleenex, I figured I would reminisce about a fantastic trip I took a few weeks...
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2012: The Panama Canal to Two Lobsterfests in Belize to Paddling with Whale...
Perhaps you have forgotten there would even BE a part two of this post. There may be a good reason for that...Part One: From Guanaja to A State Fair to Medellin was written over a month ago....
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Miracles Do Happen: GingerScoop Tastes The New Belizean-Microbrewed Island...
Last night, GingerScoop attended a tasting of the new beer by Island Time Brewing. This may not seem like a big deal to those of you who haven't visited Belize...but for YEARS, the only beer available...
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Arriving in Cancun and the Official Attire for Spring Break 2013
I was under the impression that proper Spring Break...MTV style, Jersey Shore fist pumping, 19 year old spring chugging through funnels spring break wasn't until March. Ugh...I was wrong.But let's...
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DJ's Seaside Bar and Restaurant: Is It Really the Best Burger in Town?
There has been a ton of hype about the newly relocated DJ's Restaurant for the past few months. I have been instructed by what seems like countless people to try "the best burger in Belize". I do...
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Lunch at My Favorite - Wild Mango's and a Bit of Chocolate
Why does it seem like the whole Facebook world is on a dietary cleanse? All this talk of it makes me hungry. Plus, I can think of no better way to celebrate my return to San Pedro than with a lunch...
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Believe It or Not: My First Trip to Lazy Croc's BBQ, the Island Is As Busy as...
Lazy Croc's Barbecue on Ambergris Caye has been famous for a few years now. Residents and visitors to the island RAVE about the food. A mention of Lazy Croc's pulled pork sends them into a trance....
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2012: An August Hurricane Scare to The End of the World, FINAL PART
I hear you groaning...either because you are sick of this filler recap material (how dare you!) or because it is now almost March 2013 and I'm still reminiscing about 2012. I posted: Part One from...
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Things I Saw Yesterday from Sands Villas to Buying a Bar Stool So Everybody...
Yesterday the high winds continued much to the dismay of divers...but to the delight of wind surfers. I saw quite a few ripping around in the afternoon.Since I am doing neither of those activities,...
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AMAZING Community Support for February's SAGA Humane Society Cook-Off
Yesterday evening, Average Joe's (AJ's) Bar hosted the monthly SAGA cook-off to raise money for the kick-off of the operation SNIP program. Animal control has always been a problem on the island of...
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A Cold Front Moves In and The BIG Ruta Maya Race
After almost a week of what seemed like unseasonable very warm, very humid and very pretty weather on the island...A hammock hanging limp at Victoria House.A dog in the Boca Del Rio area hiding from...
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Strange Fruits: Tamarind Or Tambran Pods & Three Cheers for Fruit Season!
Winter is a bit of dry spell for fruit variety here in Belize. Sure you can always access oranges, bananas, grapefruit and watermelon. During the holiday season, apples seem to be shipped in from the...
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