Bermuda: City of Hamilton
On our last day, we didn’t need to leave for the airport till 6pm, so decided to visit Bermuda’s (tiny) capital, the City of Hamilton (always referred to as such to avoid confusion with Hamilton Parish which, strangely, it’s not in). We’d changed buses here several times during the week, but never had time to explore. As it was Sunday, most things were closed but it was a lovely day and we were happy to wander.
Right next to the bus station is the City Hall and Arts Centre.
From there, we strolled along the waterfront. The statue is We arrive by Chesley Trott which commemorates the 1835 landing site of the American slave ship Enterprise.
Lots more statues in the nearby Queen Elizabeth Park, and a beautiful bandstand in Victoria Park:
Next, we walked three blocks to Fort Hamilton which technically took us outside the city limits – it’s that small! Although it still has the odd cannon lying around, it’s laid out as a garden. It also has great views over the city and shoreline.
From there, we worked our way back into town past the Sessions House which has the Supreme Court on the ground floor and the House of Assembly – one of the oldest parliaments in the world – upstairs. Nearby is the Cabinet Building and the statue of Sally Bassett, a legendary heroine of Bermuda’s slavery days.
Finally, we popped into the Anglican Cathedral, Holy Trinity, before making our way back to the bus.
The next day we were home to a rainy November, but our break in the sun had done us good.
The Glasgow Gallivanter 
I’m missing Hamilton after seeing these beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing your trip!
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Thanks for reading!
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That praying mantis statue creeps me out a little bit, but I like it. Even though it doesn’t seem to quite fit in with all the other statues there (which is probably why I like it!).
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It’s certainly different! I liked it too.
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This is such a beautiful, if not quiet, town. What a beautiful trip you had and so nice and bright-I love the cleanliness of the place and the colours
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Yes, I loved all the pastel colours, so lovely.
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Beautiful place to wander around. A wonderful escape. 🙂
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Thank you! It certainly was.
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Have enjoyed following your Bermudan adventures, and glad that the sun and warmth did you good. It’s the best time of the year to leave Europe for a while!
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Very true! Glad you enjoyed reading about it.
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Lovely photos. It looks like a wonderful place to visit. Must’ve been a bit of a shock to the system to come back to Glasgow in November!
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Ha, ha! Certainly was. Thanks.
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I see you made it back from Bermuda. No getting lost in the Triangle. 🙂 I’ll be doing the tour backwards, too.
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Yes, back safe and sound!
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Nice-looking place, Anabel 🙂 I shall continue the Bermuda tour backwards.
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Any order works!
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Looks like a lovely town. And those statues are stunning! 🙂
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It is lovely – I wish we’d had more time there.
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I’m reading this blog on a snowy morning. Though we’re excited about it (we haven’t been in a big snowstorm in decades), it was a lovely treat to read this blog and look and the lovely photos.
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I’ve been reading about your storm – hope you stay safe and warm!
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Looks like a beautiful place – the perfect way to spend a few hours before a flight too!
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And a last top-up of sun before coming home!
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It looks so fresh and clean and tidy. Do you know anything about the statue in the last phot? The woman with her hands tied.
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Sally Bassett – a slave who was publicly burned to death for (allegedly) poisoning her master and his wife.
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Looks lovely. I always like to wander around a place on a Sunday, usually the best time to photograph buildings without an excess of cars or people in the way. What a nice way to spend the day before the flight. How long is the flight btw?
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It’s about 6-7 hours to London then, for us, a long wait at Gatwick for the last leg to Glasgow. But it was worth it!
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That’s longer than I thought it would be. And living near London makes travel a lot easier, it takes us almost as long to get to London as it does to fly to Europe.
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It’s almost all the way to the States, so not much shorter than that. zOur flight to London is only an hour but because there are fewer of them now it always seems to be a long wait for the next flight. Still, a price worth paying to see nice places!
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It can take us 4 -5 hours to reach London Heathrow from here. Slow trains, bad connections, late arrivals 😦
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Miserable! But I’m sure we’ll both agree moving to London is not the answer…..
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Definitely not! Though we did live within an hour’s drive of the airports which made it much easier. And soon we will be even further away as we are moving to the south-west! Hopefully we can fly from Newquay!
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Ah, Newquay! I hadn’t thought of there! I visited once many years ago and didn’t like it much. Probably before the days of the airport 🙂
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Flights to Doncaster and Newcastle during the summer apparently 😉
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Useful to know 🙂 🙂
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Sounds like a relaxing day with enough walking to prepare you for that flight home!
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It was a lovely day – as long as we didn’t think too much about the flight, which ended up being delayed 😦
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Don’t they have any people there ?
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Ha, ha – it was Sunday! They must all have been at church, except for the person crossing the road in the first picture ;-). We did see a few people but, you’re right, it was pretty quiet – apart from the restaurant at lunchtime.
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