St Goerge's, Bermuda
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Richard & Alison Brunstrom
Sun 29 May 2011 23:59
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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.
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