Amateur Traveler episode 824. Today the amateur traveler talks about diving and salt ponds,

cactus and flamingos, windsurfing, and land sailing as we go to the island of Bonair. This is Chris Christensen

from Amateur Traveler. Let's talk about Bonair.

I'd like to welcome to the show Eric Gietman from Caducei Distillery on Bonair,

who has come to talk to us about the beautiful island of Bonair.

Eric, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Chris. Thank you for having me.

I feel like I should say welcome back.

Eric and I tried this earlier, but the Internet was not cooperative.

We were out in the weak Internet portions of the Isle of Bonair.

Eric, what is your connection with the island of Bonair?

I moved to the island 14 years ago and before that me and my wife fell in love with the island

once we visited Bonair for the first time on our

honeymoon in 1997 and after vacationing every year after 1997 we after 10 years of vacationing we decided to move here and to start a business here.

And because we found out that Bonair didn't have a distillery yet, which in my opinion was a bit odd because Caribbean Island without a distillery, sounds so lit free.

We said, okay, let's start a distillery there.

And so we did 14 years ago and now we have a really nice distillery here on the island.

And I was also very active in the tourism industry on the island that was in the board of

the Hotel and Tourism Association for 11 years and I served as president for five years and I live in Rincon which is some settlement on the other side of the island of Bonair.

That's me, that's my background a little bit how I ended up on this tropical island here.

And let's put it on a map. We're talking about the B and the ABCs.

Rubens, you're a sown bonair.

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