Blogs from Nassau, Bahamas, Central America Caribbean - page 11

The Bahamas The 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 flight, because I had missed the first, I eventually get my connection to Bahamas Capital, Nassau. When I arrive, I confirm my initial ‘Town Hotel’ booking over the phone at the airport and head there by taxi. At £37 a night it was simply cheapest room on the Island, a venue I would be staying for a couple of nights at the start and four days at ... read more

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 to hand feed the iguanas grapes, they run from everywhere down to the beach. freakn amazing, then off to shipwreck cay, a private island owned by the powerboat people. we handfed stingrays , then sharks!! via a rope lol, the boys went snorkling on the reef. it was brilliant, got a great video of the whole day and heaps of bics of ... read more

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 off to present at the East Nassau luncheon meeting where we met Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette. Our afternoon was spent touring the Commonwealth Brewery which is celebrating its 20th year brewing Kalik. Now we are back at our host homes preparing for an evening out. We will be having dinner by the sea with some of the Bahamian GSE team and then ... read more

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 fine-dining 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 since neither of us like steamed fish with tomato sauce. For dessert, we had "guava duff". It tasted almost like bread pudding but mixed with guava pulps. It was good; however, too sweet for me. The Fish Fry A strips of restaurants located between Cable beach and Nassau downtown. We went to "Sea Food Heaven"and "Twin Brothers". Loved "conch chowder", "conch fritters", "conch salads", "cracked conch", steamed groupers, fried red ... read more

My last posting from the Jamaican cyber café, in 3 parts… YESTERDAY AFTERNOON Acephale, 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 for me. “How do you say that?” and she swung the PC monitor around so that I could read it. AKEFALO LTD. DATE OF INCORPORATION 1962 She went off to find the file. A few minutes later I saw her head appear at the back of the room. She was talking to someone else, and from time to time both of them glanced at me, then quickly looked ... read more