You wish .. err hope ... it was your fingers.....

Ah, the Caribbean. Did you know the Dutch still have some "colonies" there? Or well... they're not really colonies anymore I think. Some are independent, and some have got the status of municipalities or something... well anyway we got all this obsession with safety standards and such, and the Netherlands have a large airport near Amsterdam, but despite all this, St Maarten has this strange airfield, which start just beyond the beach. It's really weird.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PywSDOYJS2c

And my boss, after such a landing of St Maarten, he went to Aruba on a small propellor airplane and the landing there was nerve wrecking because the landing strip starts just beyond a hilll... yes you read this correctly, the plane first has to "jump" over the hill before it can land. And after touchdown it has to hit the brakes or else it'll end up in the water. Perhaps the worst aspect of that trip was that there was a very fat women next to him who was even more scared than him, who squeezed him Or maybe it was the tropical cyclone that hit the island, so that he was stuck there for 2 days in a hotel room, with a broken window and a wet floor. Or perhaps the worst was this trip back to the larger airport on St Maarten, on a ferry across the big waves in the aftermath of the cyclone.