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2020 Caribbean (Winter)

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Nassau (Bahamas)

Deserted tourist street

Deserted "Pirates of Nassau"

Loyal Post Box

Old Parliament Square

Steps up to Government House

With a fine statue of Columbus (1830)

Government House

View to Fort Charlotte (closed)

Part of Fort Charlotte (closed)

Loyal shoreline cannon Still watching out for the French

Fort Montagu

Fort Montagu

Fort Montagu

Rock-cut "Queen's Staircase" to Fort Fincastle

Fort Fincastle, built by Scottish Lord Dunmore

Fort Fincastle

Fort Fincastle

Fort Fincastle: 1829 Canon

View from Fort Fincastle to Atlantis resort complex

Ocean view from Clifton Heritage Park

View down "Pirate Steps"

Antigua

Antigua: Saint John's

Saint John's Cathedral

The Prince Klaas statue Commemorating the main leader of a planned slave revolt in 1736

Sir Vere Bird Monument

Museum of Antigua and Barbuda

Museum of Antigua and Barbuda

View of Saint John's

Waterfront view to Fort James

Antigua: Fort James

Fort James

Overgrown cannon

Antigua: Nelson's Dockyard

Fort Berkeley

Fort Berkeley Powder magazine (1811)

Powder Magazine: Strongly roofed

Fort Berkeley

Fort Berkeley canon: Carron (1805)

View from Fort Berkeley

Dow's Hill: View to Fort Berkeley

Dow's Hill: View to Nelson's Dockyard

View from Shirley Heights

Shirley Heights: View to Nelson's Dockyard

Shirley Heights lookout post (1791)

Nasty, treacherous, tire-eating manhole cover

Tire-eating manhole cover detail

San Juan (Puerto Rico)

San Jose church (from 1532)

Casa Blanca (built for Ponce de Leon in 1521)

Casa Blanca

Juan Ponce de Leon statue (1882) “Conquistador" and First Governor

San Juan Bautista Cathedral (from 1540)

San Juan Bautista Cathedral interior

Columbus statue

Columbus statue

Fortifications in South East

El Capitolio

El Capitolio

Fountain The "statue" directly ahead is a real human

Heavily Symbolic fountain

Cultural Institute

Cultural Institute

San Juan: Old Walls

San Juan gate Main gate for Formal Entrances

San Juan: Castillo San Felipe del Morro

Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)

Obelisco de Santo Domingo

Obelisco de Santo Domingo

Presidential Palace

Presidential Palace

Independencia Park Entrance

View into Independencia Park

Monument to Fray Antonio de Montesino 16th c Defender of Indigenous Rights

Old Walls

Catedral Primada de las America

Cathedral interior

Cathedral, oddly stumpy rear view

Columbus statue, outside Cathedral

Palacio Consistorial de Santo Domingo

Museo de las Casas Reales (from 16th c)

Palacio de Diego Colon (Columbus's son) (1512)

Palacio de Diego Colon (Columbus's son) (1512)

Puerta de San Diego (1571)

Puerta de San Diego: With Habsburg Eagles!

Old cannon, near sea level.

Old Walls

Fortaleza Ozama (16th c)

Ruins of San Francisco Monastery (16th c)

Ruins of San Francisco Monastery (16th c)

Grey, frothy and polluted coastline

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