http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/johnbarlow/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from johnbarlow en-us Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:12:06 +0000 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:12:06 +0000 My last posting from the Jamaican cyber caf in 3 partsYESTERDAY AFTERNOONAcephale acephalos akephalos akephale... akefalh fali... you name it yesterday we went through all the combinations. The lady helping me was smirking by now as if we were never going to find it. But we just tried all the possibilities until we got to AKEFALO.There we are she said as if she was pleased fo http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-263057.html just back in the Jamaican cyber cafe...Acephale acephalos akephalos akephale... akefalh fali... you name it we went through all the combinations. The lady helping me was laughing by now as if we were never going to find it. But we just tried all the possibilities until we got to AKEFALO.There we are she said as if she was pleased for me. How do you say that and she swung the http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-262762.html Yesterday whilst I waited for the news from Greece I headed over to Paradise Island. This is smaller and narrower than New Providence and close enough for a bridge there are two. However there is also a sea taxi which runs every half hour and has that definite Bahamian style to it...When does it leave I ask the ticket girl.Twentyfive minutes.There are already some people sitt http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-262672.html Im in my usual sweaty overcrowded noisy JamaicanBahamian cyber cafe and DVD pirating shop after a strange day. First off I had a meeting with a lawyer specializing in offshore work. Her offices are in the building adjoining the Hilton Hotel Nassaus finest. I wont give her name because I got the introduction through the Ministry of Tourism and I dont want to offend anyone. As Ja http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-262351.html I didnt make it to the Huey Lewis concert on Sunday night. My eye was still a little uncomfortable and just as I had suspected the tickets started not at 79 but 99. I had a beer at the casino bar and watched the craps for a while then had an early night.As you can see from the comment on yesterdays post I now have my camera back. Thank you BethK. And as for the shots of people you lef http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-262045.html After returning to my room without my camera I started to get the symptoms of a cold. Then my eye which had been itching all afternoon started to swell. The eyeball itself was developing a film of transparent mucus and it got quite uncomfortable like having about a half teaspoonful of raw egg white on your eyeball. I went back to the reception and asked to see the locum. The what The doctor http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-261339.html I spent part of yesterday evening taking photos of the 3hotel complex in which Im staying which seems to be in a state of semirepair a bit shabby but not that bothered about it like a grandma who insists on dressing up as a showgirl. Theres no actual repair work going on but there needs to be. My room has a sea view about an inch of sea view between two of the other great towers in ou http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-261338.html I got my invitation to the tea party when I was at the Ministry of Tourism in Thursday after my first abortive attempt to enter Ansbacker House. What I really wanted was the Office of Tourism I was looking for a map but when I arrived mistakenly at the Ministry a young lady asked me who I was then took me up to an office where her boss asked me who I was again weighed it up then handed http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-260968.html My understanding is that the Bahamas has not always been very open with company details but that it has cleaned up its act in recent years. The ground floor of the Registrar Generals offices is openplan with a counter separating the general public from those working at desks behind. A lady with twoinch finger nails asks me what I want. All I have to go on isHEADLESS LTD2002Sovereign TrustS http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-260686.html Huey Lewis and the News are playing here in my hotel tomorrow night. Tickets apparently cost from 79 but I dont believe that. Everything here costs more than you think it will especially the restaurants so I dont see why chickeninabasket cabaret featuring faded eighties rock bands should be any different. At least we wont be expected to leave a 15 gratuity. And b.t.w. if you http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-260683.html Nassau has a slow customs procedure. I was in line nearly half an hour right behind a young American man who was also traveling alone. We both wore dark jackets and formal shirts whilst around us loud mouthed families in shorts and slacks and joggers made us look slightly conspicuous.We got chatting. He was here to visit a bank some kind of work to do with the bank in London he worked for. I to http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-260355.html Tomorrow I will be going to Nassau the Bahamas. For the duration of my stay Ill be posting a blog every day. But this wont be a conventional travel blog. For one thing Im not really on vacation although you might think so given that Ill be in the sunkissed Caribbean. The blog will in fact report on some of the work Ill be doing whilst Im on the island. It will also serve as http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-259665.html