Theo Meijer Westpunt

Name: Theo Meijer Westpunt
Address: Marinilla, CO
Telephone: +59995151934
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Co-Host of Best West Eco Resort Curacao

http://www.bestwesteco.com

27/09/2026

What about this view from our Lodge

26/09/2026

For years I knew almost nothing about my father's war.

My father, Hugo Meijer, was a Dutch KNIL soldier captured by the Japanese in March 1942, on Java. For the next three and a half years he was a prisoner of war on the Thailand-Burma Railway — the "Death Railway" most people only know, if at all, from The Bridge on the River Kwai. Sixty thousand Allied POWs and two hundred thousand Asian forced laborers built that line. More than a hundred thousand of them died doing it. It's one of the least-known chapters of the Second World War outside the Netherlands, Britain, and Australia — and even there, it's easily overshadowed by the war in Europe.

My father never talked about it. Not really. A shrug, a half-sentence, and the subject would close again. He died in 2010, and for years that silence was just something I lived with.

Last year I decided to stop accepting it. I started digging — Dutch and British archives, a research centre in Thailand, war graves records, genealogy sites, and a lot of very generous strangers in several countries who helped me chase down names, dates, and photographs I never thought I'd find. What started as a folder of documents turned into something much bigger than I expected: his own long-lost war memoir surfaced along the way, and pieces of his story connected to other families who'd been searching too.

I've turned all of it into a book — still a work in progress, but complete enough now to share: his story, in my words, told the way I wish I could have heard it from him.

If this period of history means something to you — if you had family who went through the same thing, or you're just curious about a part of the war that doesn't get talked about enough — message me and I'll send you the file. No cost, no catch. I'd just like more people to know what happened on that railway, and to the men who survived it.

25/08/2026

"Most females don't answer video calls after 9PM because their face has been restored to factory settings." 💀

And the ones who DO answer? Bold. Reckless. Living life on hard mode. Respect to the fearless few showing up unfiltered while the rest of the group chat is still "loading."

17/08/2026

Coffee tastes different when the Caribbean Sea is the view.

Every morning at Best West starts the same simple way: the sun clears the ridge, the water turns from navy to turquoise, and someone on the deck is holding a warm cup, not saying much.

There's nowhere to rush to — Westpunt runs on its own clock.
This is basecamp for the week ahead. From here, the reefs, the trails, the beaches and the whole wild west coast of Curaçao are minutes away. We'll show you around over the next few days.

04/08/2026

This building is made of trees that never grew anywhere near the Caribbean.

Sounds made up, but it's true: the whole structure is Austrian cross-laminated timber, engineered in Europe, then shipped across the Atlantic and put together right here on a stretch of coast that used to be nothing but cactus and dry scrub.
No concrete blocks, no rebar forest, none of the build-a-hotel-fast approach most places take. It's slower and probably pricier, but the wood breathes, it doesn't need the same brute-force AC everything else on the island runs on, and it just feels different to sleep in a room built from actual timber instead of poured concrete.

We didn't exactly grow up thinking "let's ship lumber across an ocean" was a normal plan either. But here we are, and guests usually notice something's off before we even explain it. the room feels warmer, literally and otherwise.
If you're into weird build stories like this, follow along. we post more of this side of the lodge than you'd expect from a tiny place on a cactus coastline.

📍 Westpunt, Curaçao | booking link in bio | +599 6922055

31/07/2026

"POV: you booked a room, but woke up in paradise instead."

Tucked where Curaçao's wild west coast meets the sea, Best West Eco Lodge is built from sustainable Austrian timber and runs on 100% solar power — no filter needed on those views. Steps from Playa Kalki, minutes from Christoffel Park, with a private deck straight into the ocean. This is slow travel, done right. 🌊🌿

Link in bio to book your stay in Westpunt.

30/07/2026

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"POV: My drone just turned you into an asteroid."

Watched myself shrink into a tiny planet and I'm not over it 🪐
One second I'm standing there thinking deep thoughts, the next I'm a speck on my own little world questioning why I never went into astronomy.

Shot in one take, zero edits, 100% ego boost.

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29/07/2026

Watch till the end and see our sea deck appears in the ocean. 🚁

Started the morning grounded. Ten seconds later, the whole lodge was just a dot in the trees. This is why I fly the higher you go, the smaller the world (and your problems) get.

Dronie of the day, straight from the lodge.

28/07/2026

tonight sunset

Dirección

Marinilla

Teléfono

+59995151934

Página web

http://www.bestwesteco.com/

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