Bermuda - what a lovely country
We've been in Bermuda 4 days and just love it. What a pleasant experience to be able to leave our dinghy tied up to the wall in downtown St. George's alongside many other dinghies, no guards necessary, and then just walk around town doing as we please, stopping whenever we like to take pictures of all of these beautiful buildings which have been standing here for about 300 years and are in perfect condition. No hassle, no beggars, no hawkers, no bad attitude, just alot of friendly people who love their country.
St. George's bay which is where we are anchored is a small town by Canadian standards, but a decent size town by Bermudan standards - which is only a 20 mile long atoll basically. We spent the day yesterday walking around the town looking at the ruins of a beautiful church, Fort St. Catherine which has been standing,and is kept up beautifully, since the 1700's. We walked into the alleyways which have wonderful simple English names like Spittle Alley and marvelled at how long these buildings have been standing. Being from England I have missed the age of things living in BC, and here on this tiny little island all of this history. 55 forts were built around Bermuda by the British to make sure they didn't lose it to anyone else, who wouldn't want to fight for this jewel.
Today we took a bus into Hamilton which is the capital city of Bermuda. This is a much bigger town, probably equal to maybe Langley, but with some pretty upscale international shops, big lothing designer names, lots of jewellery stores, hundreds of churches on the way. This was a lovely clean civilized bus. And nobody other than the people who paid the fare got on. The driver was a middle aged Bermudan woman who kept up a running commentary on where we were, and how bad all of the other drivers on the road were. She was alot of fun , and she didn't do anything to frighten her passengers.
We've met another boat here who is doing the Atlantic crossing at the same time as us and will probably go at a similar speed, so we are going to meet to compare notes and set up some kind of contact schedule during the passage.
Our friends on Sheli, a boat we met in Jamaica are also leaving about the same time but they are on an Ocaeanis 47, which is much faster than us, so we don't have much hope of keeping up.
There is also a boat in the harbour called Amazon which is owned by Maltese people who are going back to Malta, we have gone over to the boat hopefully to meet them, but nobody has been home so far. Its a beautiful boat built in the 30's I think, its combination sailboat - but no longer has sails and it has a huge chimney stack. Not sure if that is a functioning chimney.
We'll do a little maintenance work on Moondancer tomorrow and laundry etc, then we've got to find a grocery store with decent priced food to do some provisioning for the next few weeks.
St. George's bay which is where we are anchored is a small town by Canadian standards, but a decent size town by Bermudan standards - which is only a 20 mile long atoll basically. We spent the day yesterday walking around the town looking at the ruins of a beautiful church, Fort St. Catherine which has been standing,and is kept up beautifully, since the 1700's. We walked into the alleyways which have wonderful simple English names like Spittle Alley and marvelled at how long these buildings have been standing. Being from England I have missed the age of things living in BC, and here on this tiny little island all of this history. 55 forts were built around Bermuda by the British to make sure they didn't lose it to anyone else, who wouldn't want to fight for this jewel.
Today we took a bus into Hamilton which is the capital city of Bermuda. This is a much bigger town, probably equal to maybe Langley, but with some pretty upscale international shops, big lothing designer names, lots of jewellery stores, hundreds of churches on the way. This was a lovely clean civilized bus. And nobody other than the people who paid the fare got on. The driver was a middle aged Bermudan woman who kept up a running commentary on where we were, and how bad all of the other drivers on the road were. She was alot of fun , and she didn't do anything to frighten her passengers.
We've met another boat here who is doing the Atlantic crossing at the same time as us and will probably go at a similar speed, so we are going to meet to compare notes and set up some kind of contact schedule during the passage.
Our friends on Sheli, a boat we met in Jamaica are also leaving about the same time but they are on an Ocaeanis 47, which is much faster than us, so we don't have much hope of keeping up.
There is also a boat in the harbour called Amazon which is owned by Maltese people who are going back to Malta, we have gone over to the boat hopefully to meet them, but nobody has been home so far. Its a beautiful boat built in the 30's I think, its combination sailboat - but no longer has sails and it has a huge chimney stack. Not sure if that is a functioning chimney.
We'll do a little maintenance work on Moondancer tomorrow and laundry etc, then we've got to find a grocery store with decent priced food to do some provisioning for the next few weeks.
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