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A second cautious and timorous Caribbean trip during the Coronavirus year.
Nassau (Bahamas)
A visit to a very non-crowded Nassau in November 2020
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| Deserted tourist street |
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| Deserted "Pirates of Nassau" |
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| Loyal Post Box |
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| Old Parliament Square |
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| Steps up to Government House |
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| With a fine statue of Columbus (1830) |
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| Government House |
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| View to Fort Charlotte (closed) |
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| Part of Fort Charlotte (closed) |
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| Loyal shoreline cannon Still watching out for the French |
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| Fort Montagu |
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| Fort Montagu |
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| Fort Montagu |
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| Rock-cut "Queen's Staircase" to Fort Fincastle |
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| Fort Fincastle, built by Scottish Lord Dunmore |
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| Fort Fincastle |
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| Fort Fincastle |
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| Fort Fincastle: 1829 Canon |
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| View from Fort Fincastle to Atlantis resort complex |
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| Ocean view from Clifton Heritage Park |
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| View down "Pirate Steps" |
Antigua
Antigua: Saint John's
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| Saint John's Cathedral |
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| The Prince Klaas statue Commemorating the main leader of a planned slave revolt in 1736 |
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| Sir Vere Bird Monument |
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| Museum of Antigua and Barbuda |
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| Museum of Antigua and Barbuda |
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| View of Saint John's |
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| Waterfront view to Fort James |
Antigua: Fort James
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| Fort James |
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| Overgrown cannon |
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Antigua: Nelson's Dockyard
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| Fort Berkeley |
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| Fort Berkeley Powder magazine (1811) |
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| Powder Magazine: Strongly roofed |
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| Fort Berkeley |
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| Fort Berkeley canon: Carron (1805) |
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| View from Fort Berkeley |
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| Dow's Hill: View to Fort Berkeley |
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| Dow's Hill: View to Nelson's Dockyard |
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| View from Shirley Heights |
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| Shirley Heights: View to Nelson's Dockyard |
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| Shirley Heights lookout post (1791) |
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| Nasty, treacherous, tire-eating manhole cover |
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| Tire-eating manhole cover detail |
San Juan (Puerto Rico)
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| San Jose church (from 1532) |
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| Casa Blanca (built for Ponce de Leon in 1521) |
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| Casa Blanca |
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| Juan Ponce de Leon statue (1882) “Conquistador" and First Governor |
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| San Juan Bautista Cathedral (from 1540) |
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| San Juan Bautista Cathedral interior |
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| Columbus statue |
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| Columbus statue |
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| Fortifications in South East |
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| El Capitolio |
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| El Capitolio |
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| Fountain The "statue" directly ahead is a real human |
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| Heavily Symbolic fountain |
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| Cultural Institute |
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| Cultural Institute |
San Juan: Old Walls
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| San Juan gate Main gate for Formal Entrances |
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San Juan: Castillo San Felipe del Morro
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Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
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| Obelisco de Santo Domingo |
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| Obelisco de Santo Domingo |
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| Presidential Palace |
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| Presidential Palace |
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| Independencia Park Entrance |
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| View into Independencia Park |
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| Monument to Fray Antonio de Montesino 16th c Defender of Indigenous Rights |
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| Old Walls |
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| Catedral Primada de las America |
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| Cathedral interior |
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| Cathedral, oddly stumpy rear view |
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| Columbus statue, outside Cathedral |
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| Palacio Consistorial de Santo Domingo |
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| Museo de las Casas Reales (from 16th c) |
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| Palacio de Diego Colon (Columbus's son) (1512) |
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| Palacio de Diego Colon (Columbus's son) (1512) |
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| Puerta de San Diego (1571) |
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| Puerta de San Diego: With Habsburg Eagles! |
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| Old cannon, near sea level. |
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| Old Walls |
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| Fortaleza Ozama (16th c) |
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| Ruins of San Francisco Monastery (16th c) |
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| Ruins of San Francisco Monastery (16th c) |
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| Grey, frothy and polluted coastline |
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