So after many a mile on my faithful little scooter, I think we’ve found ‘the one’! It’s been a fun experience finding somewhere to live in Bermuda. Firstly, Bermuda is a little pricey! There are some stunning apartments and cottages and it would be easy to get carried away in order to ‘live the dream’, see the sea every morning over breakfast and have a spare room for guests. Alas, we’d probably not afford that life for long! Secondly, this tiny little island is surprisingly diverse. It’s very difficult to directly compare any two properties. They all tend to have a ‘good’ feature, a ‘bad’ feature and the rest are average. It’s therefore a decision over which features you’re happy to compromise on.
And then came along a new property…’average’ at everything! Unheard of but it seemed like the best option to us. Very safe, but hey, we’re not here to go crazy!
We’ve signed the contract, just waiting for them to do the same and hopefully we’ll be collecting the keys next Mon. For the travelers among you, don’t worry, we may not have a spare room but we do have a sofa bed! 🙂
Other little updates from paradise… It’s rains. It really rains! On our travels we’ve been used to ‘tropical rain’ which may be heavy but at least it’s over quickly. I was told to expect the same in Bermuda but unfortunately that’s not what we got this weekend. We had standard rain interspersed with tropical rain!!! Sadly, when the weather’s like that our already flaky wireless connection effectively dies leaving us with a book each, a pack of cards and US cable television! We can now see how easy it is to get cabin fever!
Thankfully it dried up long enough for us to get our Halloween costumes and head out for a few drinks on Saturday with Toby’s colleague, girlfriend and a few others we picked up along the way. Toby makes a great werewolf (strangely turning slightly camp when he put his teeth in!) and I had SO much fun painting his face! I’ve kept the facepaints and might see what other excuses I can find to do the same again. I myself was a 50’s chick with the most fetching pink and black polka dot dress. Photos taken but can’t be uploaded until we get our shipped boxes with all the cables! :-S
Sunday offered a couple of hours ‘drizzle’ rather than heavier rain so we took our chances and went for a walk along ‘the Railway Track’. Don’t worry, now disused and even in it’s heyday I believe they were horse drawn carriages so not too much of a risk. A nice little walk and we got to see a bit more of the island. One thing which we’re nearly used to is the ‘tree frog chirping’. As the sun goes down the rather large local population sets to it’s nightly chorus of chirping/beeping/generally making a noise. We’ve been told these frogs are as big as a finger nail but it’s HIGHLY unlikely we’ll see one. Toby, a man of facts, is not going to believe this! “It could be an urban legend, if no-one’s seen them, how do they know?” I like his inquisitive nature but sometimes answers aren’t that easy! Anyway, our luck was in. We found not one, but two frogs on our walk and subsequent research confirms they were indeed the noisy tree frog that will keep our guests awake when you visit – at least we can speak with confidence when we tell you just how small they are! 😉
