St Goerge's, Bermuda

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Richard & Alison Brunstrom
Sun 29 May 2011 23:59
The entry port to Bermuda is at St George's at the north eastern end of the islands. St George's town is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and with good reason. It's more English than England and the town centre is replete with seventeenth and eighteenth century stone houses, mostly beautifully restored. It really is delightful as the view below demonstrates.
 
 
Note the neat white roofs which are used to catch water.
 
The whole country is spotlessly clean and very pleasant indeed - but very densely populated. The bus service is a model that the rest of the world in general, and the UK in particular, would do well to follow - smart modern (German) buses every 15 minutes and a sensible preboarding ticket scheme. The tickets are dead cheapflat fares and work on the ferries too - of course.
 
from 1931 to 1948 Bermuda had a railway. The government banned cars, and decided that in order to move tourists around they needed a railway. Despite the fact that the island is alomst completely flat it seems that the railway was the most expensive per mile in the entire world, goodness knows how. The railway soon failed and now much of the trackbed is a very nice foot & cycle trail - here I am on it:
 
 
Bermuda was lovely. We haven't seen the half of it yet - we'll be back I think.