It's always sad to sell your home;Help us find someone to enjoy it as much as we do.

Come to our
online open house.







This is a huge jump from the previous blog entries about choosing Montserrat and finding our dream piece of land to ….selling our property. We started in 1987 and now we are nearly twenty years later and we are that much older.

When we first came to Montserrat we wondered why, as some people reached a certain age they seemed to abandon their life here and head back “home.” For us this was our one and only home and we didn’t anticipate our feelings to change.

Then life happened. In addition to the cardiac condition Bill had when we came to Montserrat, he had a stroke in 1993. He recovered as much as possible – still in Montserrat. We stayed on after our volcano burped to life in 1995. We finally left – temporarily – on July 4th, 1997 and roamed around the USA until our return in October 2000. We were back home.

Over the past six years we realized why so many of the older people went back “home.” We dealt with a cardioversion for Bill (in Canada) as well as with the inevitability of aging that increasingly limits our physical activities. There is something to be said for being near family --- just in case. There is something to be said for being near excellent medical facilities --- just in case.

This sense of “just in case” doesn’t happen to everyone – many older expats live a full, contented life and have no intention of leaving. Many older snowbirds keep coming down for the winter months year after year.

We have had a chance to live our dream for many years. Every day, as I wake up and watch, still half asleep, the light come up and the Caribbean turn that magnificent blue, I feel blessed. But now, for us, it’s time to move on and that is why we are selling.

Not only are we selling, we are using the online real-estate auction to sell our home. It’s our way of holding a grand open house where people from all over the world can visit our home through an online photo gallery, a slide show and a video at http://www.montserrat-caribbean-villas.com/

Of course we welcome people who want to come and visit in person.

The Online Auction will run for 3 weeks from 9:00 am (Montserrat time) on Monday, April 3rd, 2006 to 5:00 pm, (Montserrat time) on Monday, April 24th, 2006. This gives interested bidders the time to be registered to bid.

We only hope that our home finds a loving owner who will enjoy it and Montserrat as much as we did.