Curacao

To be honest it was my first domestic flight within the Netherlands and it was a special one from St Marteen to Willhelmstad, Curacao. I already mentioned the plane (DC9…) in an earlier post. We all had seat numbers but the flight attendant gave us seats here and there untill the plane was full. The crew spoke Spanish and upon arrival we had to fill in an immigration form. Am not quite sure what the connection between Spanish and the Netherlands is (the airline is based in Curacao, NL) and am not used to fill in immigration forms on domestic flights. Anyways, we made it.
Coming back to Spanish. For the first time on our trip we could feel the South American influence in Curacao, took quite a while!

Last but not least Curacao brings up memories from long gone times. Wasn’t there a drink called Blue Curacao? It indeed comes from Curacao. As the climate and poor soil did not allow growing the sweet Valencia oranges, Laharas (bitter oranges) were planted here. The dried peel is used for Curacao liqueur. Interesting enough, the liqueur is colorless but thanks to E133 (Brilliant Blue FCF) it is known to be blue.
150'000 people
GDP / capita (nom / PPP) 36'800 / 22'600 USD