NASSAU, Bahamas — As she delivers a bright orange Bahama Mama cocktail that looks like a liquid sunset, the waitress at the Bimini Big Game Club Resort wails: ‘It’s so cold today!’ You could have fooled me, The London Daily Mail reported in an article published on December 9, 2021.
In the Bahamas any temperature below 75f (24c) is considered freezing, prompting its residents to don woolly hats and order mugs of hot chocolate.
It’s a hilarious sight if you’ve just flown in from grey and chilly Britain, eager to frolic amid the cheerful nation’s abundant white-sand beaches and sea as smooth as glass. Stretching south-east from Florida, this dazzling sprinkling of 700 islands and 2,400 cays runs for 760 miles, with its highest point, on Cat Island, a mere 206 ft.
Memories of the Bahamas’ 325 years as a British colony, which ended with independence in 1973, linger on in driving on the left and the Queen’s role as head of state, but the abiding influence is from moneyed America.
This is where the well-off denizens of Uncle Sam come to fish, dive and party in a safe and prosperous archipelago that is culturally (but not geographically) part of the Caribbean.
This is where the well-off denizens of Uncle Sam come to fish, dive and party in a safe and prosperous archipelago that is culturally (but not geographically) part of the Caribbean.
‘We Bahamians love to dance,’ a tour guide tells me with a wink and a waggle of her hips, and they drink too. I’ve never seen a place with so many liquor stores.
Getting here has become easier thanks to a new twice-weekly flight from Heathrow to Nassau, on the gateway island of New Providence, with Virgin Atlantic. Launched two weeks ago, this complements a well-established, six-days-a-week British Airways service from the same airport. Many visitors get no further than this well-run entry point, with its cruise-ship terminal, casinos, golf courses and gargantuan hotels that include the 3,805-room Atlantis Paradise Island resort.
To find the soul of the Bahamas, you need to push on by plane or boat to what is collectively known as the Out Islands. Here’s our pick of the best. See complete article in The Daily Mail at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/escape/article-10274435/Bahamas-holidays-glamorous-sprinkling-Atlantic-Ocean-islands-accessible-ever.html?ito=facebook_share_article-top&fbclid=IwAR2akXhQgl7bPlrrMIRHYQF0D4TZ8mNA1Y9Ar7_XQZyZvuqiIaqCbnEd_TQ
