http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Bahamas , Nassau , Bahamas en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:22:05 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:22:05 UTC Its been a while since the last blog and this will bring you up to date and will probably be the last for this journey The sea day we had after Ocho Rios was pleasant but very busy.Gretchen had heaps mapped out for us and we were on the go with trivia competitionstour of the ships galleytour of the theatre stage and green roomlunchballroom dancingmore trivia and finally a dinner with our ne http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-339080.html In August of 2008 we spent one week in Nassau. The hotel that we stayed at was the Wyndham Crystal Palace Hotel and Casino which is right next door to the Sheraton in the Cable Beach area of Nassau. The resort was just fine except for the very small and shallow water beach. The swimming pool was large and came equipped with an attended waterslide. There is a large casino on property with a http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-336153.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 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 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 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-222435.html ltvideoSaturday 8th September Miami4 hours drive and we made it to Miami we only got lost once which wasnt to bad. Arrived at the South Beach Hostel Miami Beach. From the front it actually doesn't look to bad and the reception area looked okay also....it has a bar selling beer for 3 dollars which was a bonus for us. Now the rooms were a different story 3 bunkbeds crammed into a http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-203432.html visit to Atlantis in Nassau Bahamas amazingly pretty picture perfect nice day spa.....amazing shops scenery and casino.went to the aquarium great day out with the girls http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-181272.html From Miami we flew to the island of New Providence in The Bahamas where we spent 9 nights at a resort on Cable Beach. For the first few days the resort was overrun with college kids on holidays. Not sure how they could afford it at their age as it wasn't a budget resort but since it was an all inclusive place food and alcohol as well as beach activities they sure got their money's worth as mos http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-178391.html The Bahamas were so much fun I was greeted at the airport by Alex and Katie. We looked worlds apart them in nice clothes good hair and Katie in a cool blonde wig and me in my messy travel clothes bad hair and with a big heavy backpack. We stopped the taxi to get pizza then proceeded to our hotel. Pizzapasta could in fact be the theme of this section of my travels Despite dire warnings about http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Bahamas/Nassau/Bahamas/blog-152185.html