Camping Out Bermuda-Style
Crowds of locals lounging under roadside tarpaulins, blasting their stereos and barbecuing four-course meals—no, it’s not squatters or a sudden outbreak of homelessness, just the start of camping season, Bermudian-style.
Camping is restricted to Bermuda residents, though perhaps if staying with lo
Cricket Cup Match in Bermuda
Don’t worry if you can’t fathom a “maiden over” or a “googly”—Cup Match is still the best fun you can have in Bermuda all year. Make a long midsummer weekend of Bermuda’s favorite public holiday, which is scheduled around an East-versus-West-End cricket match and provides an authentic immersion in
Bermuda's Festivals and Events: July to December
Though the summer is generally prime festival season, don’t expect things to slow to a crawl in the latter part of the year. Outdoor sports and competitions continue on year-round, as do many of Bermuda’s heritage events.
July
Harbour Nights: Evening street festivals in the City of Ha
The Birdsey Studio and Other Bermuda Artists
Bermuda is a place “to hide and hush,” wrote American painter Marsden Hartley after a 1917 visit—a sentiment that would have found favor with other art-world luminaries, including Winslow Homer, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Charles Demuth, who all found the island a calm and creative inspiration.
North R
The Bermuda Triangle
If there’s one thing most everyone knows about Bermuda—even if they’ve never set foot on the island—it’s that the archipelago lies in the maw of a spooky phenomenon dubbed the “Bermuda Triangle”. Bermudians who live or travel overseas get peppered with questions about the popular myth, and it is a
National Museum of Bermuda
Bermuda’s largest and most-visited attraction, the National Museum of Bermuda (The Keep, 15 Maritime Ln. at the northern point of the Royal Naval Dockyard, tel. 441/234-1333, fax 441/234-1735, 9:30am-5pm daily, last admission 4pm, closed Christmas Day, $12 adults, children under 16 free) combines
Gombey Troupes of Bermuda
Bermuda’s cultural ambassadors are the gombeys, a name meaning “drums” given to African-inspired dance troupes adorned in elaborate outfits featuring feathers, beads, and sequins. Like tribal break-dancers in kaleidoscopic costumes, gombeys have long been adored by their Bermudian fans, but only i
Best Extreme Sports in Bermuda
While many Bermuda residents spend weekends and downtime testing their limits against the island’s physical challenges, visitor activities were often somewhat, well, sedate. That’s all changed in the last few years with the arrival of numerous vendors offering outsiders a feel of the “real”—read e
Bermuda Landscapes: Geography and Geology
An archipelago arranged as a fishhook, Bermuda comprises a total of more than 100 islands encircled by a collar of coral. Wary Spanish mariners of the 16th century dubbed them Las Islas de Demonios (Islands of Devils), while the English preferred the more benign moniker “The Summer Islands.”
Thoug
The Bermuda Cedar
The Bermuda cedar (Juniperus bermudiana) is a symbol of survival for islanders, who have depended on the sturdy evergreen from the first days of human habitation on Bermuda. The endemic cedar, along with the palmetto and olivewood, covered the island in thick woods during the 1500s and early 1600s
Planning Your Time in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda
Unless you’re staying in the Town of St. George or the West End, each with its own culinary and retail offerings, the city of Hamilton will likely be your first point of reference as you explore Bermuda. If you are a business visitor, you would be wise to stay in outlying Pembroke, namely in the c
Bermuda's Festivals & Events: January to June
In true Bermudian style, the island is awash with events and festivals all year round. Don’t assume this means every event is an excuse for a party; Bermuda is very much about enjoying your here and now whatever it might be, whether that’s taking part in a race, parade, or tournament,
What to Eat in Bermuda
Is there a true Bermudian cuisine? Gourmands might snigger at such a proposition, but Bermuda has claimed its repertoire of hallmark dishes—usually a melting pot of items from other places adapted for local menus. The amalgam of British, West Indian, African, and Portuguese cultural influences has
Birds in Bermuda
Bermuda’s fearsome early reputation as a haunted “Isle of Devils” is blamed on the eerie cry of the nocturnal cahow (Pterodroma cahow), or Bermuda petrel, which populated the island in the 1500s. Sailors heard the plaintive call of the large oceanic birds and believed the island was home to supern
Bermuda's Portuguese
On November 6, 1849, a sailing ship made port in Hamilton carrying 58 men, women, and children—the first Portuguese immigrants to Bermuda. “We sincerely trust this importation of laborers will answer the end contemplated,” read a dispatch in The Royal Gazette, “and we hope they will be the means o
Key Sites Along Bermuda's African Diaspora Trail
Bermuda’s black heritage and the 200-year legacy of slavery on the island is remembered through a chain of monuments and museums. The African Diaspora Trail belongs to an international group of heritage sites by the same name, all officially designated UNESCO Slave Route Projects. There are a doze
Doing business & staying in touch while in Bermuda
Bermuda: Doing business & staying in touch
Bermuda Weather, Climate and Geography
Bermuda Weather, climate and geography
Bermuda History, Language and Culture
Bermuda History, Language and Culture
Bermuda Travel Guide and Travel Information
Bermuda Travel Guide
