http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Bahamas , Nassau en-us Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:59:59 BST Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:59:59 BST J and I the two sea food lovers would not miss any opportunities to sample local cuisine while in Bahamas. It was our mission to search for authentic restaurants in Nassau. The Poop Deck Restaurant A casual water front finedining experience. We couldn't resist the catch of the day red snapper. Basically you can choose the cooking method grilled or steamed. We chose grilled red snapper s http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-312662.html The BahamasThe flight from Quito Equador at 9am to Miami in the US was a bit bumpy as the pilot looked to fly around bad weather but the journey through Miami Airport was even more turbulent as their organisation and signage to help passengers around their airport was really quite hectic and uninformative. But after a stressful few hours through mayhem and having been booked onto a later fligh http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-306159.html OMG you spell paradise BAHAMAS it is an awesome place and we tried to stay longer but everything was booked out. its absolute paradise.... but seems to be a very very poor country. they have just had a change of government and they have uprisings and some discontent.. but we loved it.. had an amazing day on wedneday. went on a powerboat adventure day an hour in a speedboat out to iguana island t http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-304711.html from Katie Hello All Wishing you all a Happy Fathers Day thinking of you Mom and Todd I hope all my family and friends in the Midwest are safe during this time of flooding and tornados. You all are making the news down here It rained here today as well but it was needed and enjoyed. I have been staying with Tony and Claire Howorth they have been wonderful hosts and treating me like fami http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-287777.html Hello all I need to correct my entry from yesterday. I stated that we arrived on New Province and it is New Providence island. We are having another great day on our trip. To begin with we toured the Harold Wilson's Pond National Park and then went to the Bahamas National Trust headquarters for a brief tour of one of the largest collections of palm tree varieties in the world. Then we were http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-287015.html We arrived on the island of New Province home to Nassau on Tuesday evening and were taken to our host homes to settle in and get some sleep. Our next day started late giving us a chance to visit with our hosts for the morning and then we presented at a lunch meeting and progressed on to tour Greycliffs wine cellar. Theirs is the largest privately owned collection in the world with one bottle fr http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-286743.html For the most part the port adventures wersquove gotten up to this week have been things that Mel said she wanted to do. For Nassau our last port day it was Bradrsquos choice and he wanted to go snorkelling. So I got us signed up for a snorkelling and beach break.Now the tour wasnrsquot quite what we thought it would be. Not because there was a problem with the tour but because I didn http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-273213.html I was only in Boston for a day before I took off for the Bahamas. The weather in Prague had been pretty nice but the weather in Nassau was amazing It was in the high 70's and low 80's the whole time I was there. I was working for a spring break travel company which was a lot of fun except for a few isolated incidents involving high schoolers throwing up on me....but to be living in the Bahamas f http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-263079.html My last posting from the Jamaican cyber caf in 3 partshellipYESTERDAY 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.ldquoThere we arerdquo she said as if she wa 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.ldquoThere we arerdquo she said as if she was pleased for me. ldquoHow do you say thatrdquo a 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...ldquoWhen does it leaverdquo I ask the ticket girl.ldquoTwentyfive minutes.rdquoThere are already http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-262672.html Irsquom 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 Nassaursquos finest. I wonrsquot give her name because I got the introduction through the Ministry of Tourism and I donrsquot want to offe http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-262351.html I didnrsquot 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 yesterdayrsquos post I now have my camera back. Thank you BethK. And as for the shots of people 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 Irsquom 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. Therersquos 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 towe 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 Generalrsquos 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 Tr 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 lsquofrom 79rsquo but I donrsquot believe that. Everything here costs more than you think it will especially the restaurants so I donrsquot see why chickeninabasket cabaret featuring faded eighties rock bands should be any different. At least we wonrsquot be expected to leave a 15 gratuit 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 Irsquoll be posting a blog every day. But this wonrsquot be a conventional travel blog. For one thing Irsquom not really on vacation although you might think so given that Irsquoll be in the sunkissed Caribbean. The blog will in fact report on some of the work Irsquoll be doing whilst Irsquom on the islan http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-259665.html JacksonvilleThe DepartureIt is funny how things work out sometimes. Neal and I planned our cruise last year for Feb 4 because we planned on getting married on Feb 2. But in a whirlwind of unexpected events we ended up tying the knot last year and taking the cruise just weeks before we leave for Korea which should be around March 1. We drove down to Jacksonville FL the night before and staye http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-248850.html On Thursday Meagin Anne Ashley and I boarded the Carnival Sensation for our 3 day Bachelorette Extravaganza. The first day was kind of cold outside so we spent our day exploring the ship drinking and then hitting up the clubs onboard that evening. The ship was quite interesting. Meagin was the only one of us that had cruised beforeand it had been several years ago so we didn't really k http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-239089.html Greetings from NassauToday we were still hanging out in Marathon waiting for the right winds to take us on our journey. Cameron dinghied in and went to the Hurricane Lounge to watch the Texans on Sunday afternoon football. Around 530 we heard a strange trumpeting noise outside. It was coming from the boat next to ours. Sandy was standing on the bow of her boat blowing into a large conch shell http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-234930.html hey everyone well just thought I would write again to update you all on my first christmas on a cruise ship....it was actually a lot of fun Christmas Eve...we had our christmas show...we did 2 shows and they were so much fun...right now we have 2900 passengers on board and over 1000 of them are kids...so it was interesting...then we had to work for a little bit in bliss...we then came back to th http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-230842.html Joyeux NoelBonne et heureuse anneProfitant de noel l'aube d'une anne nous voulons vous souhaiter sant bonheur prosprit et la ralisation de vos rves. http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-229285.html Dimanche le 16 dcembre Vendredi le 14 dcembre Selon les prvisions de Chris Parker sur radio ondes courtes car ici crsquoest lui le Dieu de la mto mtorologue de formation que les vents seront de 10 15 noeuds du secteur est dans le pif pour nous avec possibilit de 6 8 pieds de vagues dans le Gulf Stream. Le Gulf Stream a une largeur de 35 milles nautiques et tous le monde le gra http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-228792.html Vendredi le 14 dcembreSelon les prvisions de Chris Parker sur radio ondes courtes car ici crsquoest lui le Dieu de la mto mtorologue de formation que les vents seront de 10 15 noeuds du secteur est dans le pif pour nous avec possibilit de 6 8 pieds de vagues dans le Gulf Stream. Le Gulf Stream a une largeur de 35 milles nautiques et tous le monde le grain d sa force de courant http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-228292.html With the end of the year approaching and two days of vacation time left I knew I had to head to warmer weather We were lucky enough to find a cruise that fit into a weekend so December 7th we departed Port Canaveral for a 3 Day 230 cruise to the Bahamas on Royal Caribbeanrsquos Sovereign of the Seas. Our itinerary was fantastic leaving us with full days and little time actually on the b http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/blog-227132.html http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-222435.html