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 me an invitation to the Governor-General’s residence for tea. Here’s some advice: if you want to impress people in government Ministries, wear [View Full Entry]

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Huey Lewis and the News are playing here in my hotel tomorrow night. Tickets apparently cost ‘from $79’, but I don’t believe that. Everything here costs more than you think it will, especially the restaurants, so I don’t see why chicken-in-a-basket cabaret featuring faded eighties rock bands should be any different. At least we won’t be expected to leave a 15% gratuity. And b.t.w. if you happen to be reading this and you are one of the many people who keep trying to sell me Cuban cigars, please stop. I am already struggling to see how I can include a [View Full Entry]

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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 General’s offices is open-plan, with a counter separating the general public from those working at desks behind. A lady with two-inch finger nails asks me what I want. All I have to go on is: HEADLESS LTD 2002 Sovereign Trust She taps at a computer keyboard, using the nails (which really are a full 2 inches long) as talons, picking at the keys. It takes several minutes. She finds [View Full Entry]

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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 told him I was here to investigate the offshore business. Oh, that’s cool, he said, nodding earnestly, that’s cool. Are you a journalist? I explained as [View Full Entry]

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Tomorrow I will be going to Nassau, the Bahamas. For the duration of my stay, I’ll be posting a blog every day. But this won’t be a conventional travel blog. For one thing, I’m not really on vacation, although you might think so, given that I’ll be in the sun-kissed Caribbean. The blog will in fact report on some of the work I’ll be doing whilst I’m on the island. It will also serve as a kind of insurance policy, a statement of intent, in case anything happens to me. Some time ago, I was contacted out of the blue by [View Full Entry]

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So I decided to start a travel blog because I want to keep you all updated about my travels this summer, and I figured I might as well start now to record the AMAZING CRUISE that I just went on for spring break! Obviously if you do not wish to get my blog entries, please just let me know and I will take you off the list. After finally making it through a terrible week of midterms and a particularly brutal fluid mechanics test, the idea of the spending a week in the warm Caribbean sun with my boyfriend and 12 [View Full Entry]

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“On the Road Again” We have left Georgetown and have now started our trip north. We pulled up the anchor and set sail with brisk 15-18 knot SE winds on Tuesday morning the 4th of March about 09:00 and headed for Conch Cut. This is the opening between the reefs that allows boats access to Exuma Sound. From there we set a course for the southern end of Cat Island which is about 37.4 miles NE of Georgetown. We had a great sail with a beam reach and 5’ ocean swells coming into the sound from the Atlantic. We arrived in [View Full Entry]

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Adventures on the high seas, pirates, long ocean passages, and long sandy beaches. Well…. we certainly have had our share of beaches, but if you’re hoping to hear of these other exciting things, sorry but we’ve been having too much fun for that. We have spent the whole winter in the Bahamas, and most of that time in the Exumas. We might have set a record having been fortunate enough to have 6 groups of company come to visit this year. Since our last blog, my sisters (Lynne and Marianne) visited, our granddaughter Ella and her parents Dawn and Paul, and [View Full Entry]

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hey hey hey!!! well I think this will probably be my last blog, its been a while, and I have been horrible with this travelblog....so I apologize for not writing more! lets just say I havent had much time to write:) So I dont know if you all know but its been hectic the last month on here...this what happened... Tim one of our male dancers got fired..for possession of drugs onboard...it was a sad day, as he just made a stupid mistake which cost him his job! he was a great guy and a great partner. I was so sad [View Full Entry]

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We set sail for Georgetown, the southernmost port in the Exumas, and happened to arrive the week of the big cruising regatta. We couldn’t believe how many boats were anchored in the harbor, at least 400! But with the belief that there is always room for one more, we made our way in and set the hook. Now the cruising regatta is a week long event, with all kind of events like the coconut challenge, a pet parade, a scavenger hunt, a bake-off, golf and tennis and volleyball and bocce ball tournaments, and much, much more. Oh yeah… and 2 regattas, [View Full Entry]

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