Traveling Around: Bermuda

Can you relate?

• Having an international school teacher friend that moved to a tropical location that you were FOR SURE going to visit at some point.
• Realizing that Bermuda is indeed so close to the United States and only around 1.5 hour flight from JFK airport in New York.  Why did I wait so long to visit this country!?
• Staying at a friend’s apartment and enjoying the view from their balcony while eating breakfast every morning.

• Finally understanding exactly what Bermuda shorts are and when the locals wear them.
• Taking the local public transportation (with a mix of locals and tourists) to one of the many beautiful beaches in Bermuda.
• Filming a 30-second movie on my smartphone at each of the beaches that I visited and posting them on Facebook for all my friends to see!
• Visiting the school that my international school teacher friend works at and getting a personal tour of campus.

• Being a bit jealous of my friend’s less than five-minute walk to work.
• Going grocery shopping at a local grocery store and finding a paper bag (for bagging up your purchased products) that had a printed warning about the upcoming hurricane season on it.
• Checking out some the more popular caves in Bermuda and wondering whether I truly like visiting caves or not.
• Seeing animals that only a tropical island would have, but also finding animals that I thought an island wouldn’t have (e.g. cardinal birds).

• Walking around a wooded area and finding a “secret spot” to swim, only to find that some other people were already swimming in this secret spot!
• Getting a nice ride on my friend’s moto to her most favorite beach on the island and finding it to be very worth the scariness of being on the back of a small motobike going at pretty fast speeds.
• Thinking I’m being all free and all by walking around the area around the beach in my bare feet only to find that I wish I would have worn my sandals because of the extremely rocky ground (sharp!).
• Taking lots of pictures of all the free-roaming roosters walking around everywhere on the island. Beautiful feathers!

• Being in awe of the parrot fish. Finding it in one place and then finding it even up closer in another location the next day. So colorful!
• Eating some amazing local fish (wahoo anyone?) at a variety of restaurants.
• Getting the opportunity to go on my friend’s work colleague’s house sailboat for the day. He took us around the beautiful island to a secret spot to go swimming in the open ocean. It was a really nice, warm and sunny day too!
• Avoiding going to the more popular, very touristy, beach in Bermuda. I ended up going there though on my last day and I am glad that I did. There weren’t too many people there and it was fun to walk around the beach to enjoy the awesome views.
• Not getting burnt at all from being out in the sun too much. Still got some color on my skin, but I was very wise to not over do it and make sure to put on enough sunscreen.
• Shopping at the local “expat/imported” grocery store and being astounded by the VERY expensive prices there. I think a bag of cherries was 25 USD!!!

Currently we have 19 international schools listed in Caribbean on International School Community. Here are the ones that have comments submitted on them:

• Lucaya International School (Freeport, Bahamas) – 15 Comments
• St. Andrew’s – International School of the Bahamas (Freeport, Bahamas) – 7 Comments
• The Codrington School (Int’l School of Barbados) (St. John, Barbados) – 32 Comments
• Somersfield Academy (Devonshire, Bermuda) – 18 Comments
• The Bermuda High School for Girls  (Pembroke, Bermuda) – 41 Comments
• International School of Havana (Havana City, Cuba) – 15 Comments
• American school of Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) – 6 Comments
• Saint George School (Dom. Rep.) (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) – 4 Comments
• St. Michael’s School (Dominican Republic) (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) – 11 Comments
• The Ashton School of Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) – 21 Comments
• International School of Sosua (Sosua, Dominican Republic) – 9 Comments
• American International School of Kingston (Kingston, Jamaica) – 7 Comments
• International School of Curacao (Curacao, Netherlands Antilles) – 8 Comments
• Saipan International School  (Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands) – 13 Comments
• Guamani Private School (Guayama, Puerto Rico) – 16 Comments
• Caribbean School (Ponce, Puerto Rico) – 7 Comments
• International School St. Lucia (West Indies) (Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia) – 20 Comments
• International School of Port of Spain (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) – 17 Comments
• Cedar International School (Tortola, Virgin Islands, British) – 7 Comments•

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