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St George Bermuda – Find Out Why It Is a World Heritage Site
In the previous post Alison and relocated to the eastern portion of Bermuda to set up residence at the Grotto Bay Beach Resort for three nights. We will use it as a base to explore St. George, Bermuda or St. George’s as it seems to be called on at least half the maps. It was settled […]
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Grotto Bay Beach Resort – Welcome to Bermuda’s East End
Alison and I have spent the first four days in Bermuda on the western end of the island at the wonderful Fairmont Southampton. We’ve enjoyed golf at the Fairmont’s Turtle Hill Golf Course and the absolutely gorgeous Port Royal Golf Course. We’ve toured the Royal Naval Dockyard and capital city of Hamilton and walked the […]
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Port Royal Golf Course – Why It’s So Difficult and So Beautiful
Yesterday after playing Turtle Hill Golf Course we hit the beach at Horseshoe Bay and then headed for Bermuda’s capitol, Hamilton. It’s another glorious morning in Bermuda and on our last day on the south coast we are set to golf at one of Bermuda’s top courses, Port Royal Golf Club which only two months before […]
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Horseshoe Bay Beach and a Quick Visit to Hamilton, Bermuda
Day three of the Bermuda trip dawns portentously with this beautiful sunrise as seen from our balcony at the Fairmont Southampton. The excitement of last night is forgotten, although there is still a manhunt underway for two suspects who shot and killed Bermuda gangster Prince Edness outside the Waterlot Inn. Yesterday our touring got off […]
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Royal Naval Dockyard – Why It’s A Must Visit In Bermuda
Our first full day in Bermuda looks very promising. From the balcony of our room at the Southampton Princess I can tell it is going to be a hot one. This is the only day that we don’t have a golf game scheduled so the plan is to take the free ferry from the Waterlot […]
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Southampton Princess – Fairmont’s Pink Palace in Bermuda
It’s 7:00 in the morning and I’m sitting on the balcony of room 2232 at the Fairmont Southampton Princess watching the sun rise over a calm Atlantic Ocean as a large group of departing guests congregates below. Hugs, kisses and tears mark their farewells and I wonder if Alison and I will feel the same […]
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Oak Park Illinois – Hemingway and Frank Lloyd Wright
About a month ago I found myself with a free day in my one of my all time favourite cities – Chicago. It really is my kind of town. The modern architecture never ceases to keep me spellbound, particularly these two amazing apartment buildings by Mies van der Rohe. Doesn’t it look like the cars […]
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Myakka River State Park – Experience the Canopy Walk
This is another in my occasional series on what many people including the Florida State Park promoters, call ‘the real Florida’. Yes that too has become a cliche, but trust me many of Florida’s many state parks are real treasures and the antithesis of the Disneyfied version of the state that most visitors, for better […]
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John D. MacArthur Beach State Park – The Real Florida
I get tired of people who know nothing about Florida and bemoan ‘It’s all fake. There’s no natural beauty’. While it is true that much of Florida is as fake as the tits at a Palm Beach barbecue, it is equally true that the Everglades, the Big Cypress and the Ten Thousand Islands are absolutely […]
From the road
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April 20th, 2023
I’ve had a bad case of writer’s block since getting back from Southeast Asia, but I did finish this post on the fan… https://t.co/HoJjP4jeha
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April 12th, 2023
One of the main reasons to visit the Galapagos is to see the giant tortoises. This latest post explains where you c… https://t.co/mQ8PWha8j3
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April 11th, 2023
Spring is very late this year so it’s nice to see the crocuses finally show up. https://t.co/7HD6wvsEJ6
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April 9th, 2023
Sunday morning is a good time to reflect back on another Sunday in Reading, England which I wrote about here:… https://t.co/EJ4Is2NSqz