Tintamarre
You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that. - Patrick McGoohan
There really are such things as desert islands, and not just in the South Pacific. There is one just off St. Martin in the Caribbean that carries a particular memory for me that stretches back to 1994.
Ile Tintamarre, or simply Tintamarre, is just two miles away from the crowded and crazy tourist zones of St. Martin. It is only one-third of a mile wide a…