06.11.2009
A bronze dancer seems to leap from glass and concrete to the verdant green Par-a-Ville Park in Hamilton.
On the topic of city parks, last month I went to Barcelona on a field trip with my landscape architecture course. I’ve added a photo/sketch diary to my Musings page, so click here to take a tour with me! There were so many sights & sites to see!
29.10.2009
A quaint hat shop on Blacksmith’s Hill at the entrance to the Town of St George.
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28.10.2009
…dreaming of a bigger boat perhaps?!
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And a PS to A Sporty Boat posting on 21st Oct, it turns out it was one of my cousins who went out and found the boat and brought her back to Bermuda! Its name it Everest Horizontal, which according to my Dad,
the name comes from the fact that sailing around the world solo is the sailors equivalent of climbing Mount Everest. And a bit of useless trivia is that far fewer people have sailed solo around the world than have climbed to the top of Mount Everest!
27.10.2009
Another fancy-dancy boat, with a rainbow to top it off! This is in Castle Harbour.
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25.10.2009
Strive to be Above the Rest…
OR …
When You’re Above the Rest, You’re the First to Get Wet
24.10.2009
The recently opened World Heritage Centre along Penno’s Wharf in St Georges.
In 2000 the ‘Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications’ were inscribed with the recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is nice that there is now a central point to bring together and tell the stories of historical events and features in the Town.
From the UNESCO website:
Criterion iv The Historic Town of St George with its related fortifications is an outstanding example of a continuously occupied, fortified, colonial town dating from the early 17th century and the oldest English town in the New World.
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23.10.2009
Keeping with the theme of boats, here is a rather idyllic way to spend an evening: kayaking in Harrington Sound.
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22.10.2009
In case my parents were a bit miffed that it wasn’t their red boat, Total Madness in yesterday’s post, here it is today! Our dog Cassy thinks it’s pretty sporty too!
21.10.2009
When I first saw this boat I couldn’t work out what it was. Apparently the story goes that it was designed and kitted out as a single-handed round the world sailing vessel. But then it was abandoned somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic. Never the ones to miss a good opportunity, some Bermudians went out to salvage the boat and bring it back to the island. Then when Hurricane Fabian hit in 2003, the boat broke its moorings and was on the loose again. Another Bermudian this time took it to make shipshape again. Although it won’t be powered by wind for a long time, it certainly does look sporty now!
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20.10.2009
And then as quickly as the clouds had swept over us, they blew away off to the north, leaving us with blue sky again!
19.10.2009
(and we got quite wet!)
18.10.2009
And then the rain came! Slowly but surely erasing the view across to Southampton
17.10.2009
But then the clouds got heavier and darker and more and more ominous…
Just to dispel any lingering myths that Bermuda gets off light with the weather!! In fact these clouds could only mean one thing: Tank rain! Pure rainwater to fill tanks with water for all uses without the need to for fancy filtering systems or UV light germicidal radiators and whatever else the British feel they need if they dare to collect their own rain </rant over>!
16.10.2009
A blue sky with pretty, puffy clouds, seems a gorgeous day for a sail round the Great Sound…
You can just make out Gibbs Hill Lighthouse on the crest of the hill, and the Southampton Princess, a hotel with commanding views over the Great Sound and across to South Shore, towards the left.
