Will be on a way longer hiatus on here starting Monday. As much as I love my internet life, it won’t pay the bills so yeaaah. I’ll try to set up the queue for the long haul and try to be here as much as I can though.
Thank you for all you wonderful followers. xx
The Race by sharkboyto on Flickr.
Galant Lady 2011 by r_JCO_r on Flickr.
Bahrain Financial Harbor by georgephotography on Flickr.
hilton british colonial by mosaic_photo on Flickr.
British Colonial Hilton Nassau is a luxury five-star or AAA four-diamond colonial hotel in downtown Nassau, Bahamas, located on the only private beach of Nassau, on the site of the Old Fort of Nassau, near the Christ Church Cathedral and Greek Orthodox Church. The hotel, originally built in 1901 and rebuilt in 1922, is located in a grand white palace-like colonial building and has been described as “the Grand Dame of all Nassau hotels”, “the most elegant and most expensive hotel in town”, and “the most distinctive and pleasant of the island’s large hotels”.The hotel was renovated in June 2009 at a cost of US$ 15 million,has six floors spread over an 8-acre plot and has 288 guest rooms, 20 suites and 47 executive-level rooms and a 300-foot-long. It has a private white sand beach which caters in kayaking and snorkeling
The hotel was used as a filming location for the James Bond films Thunderball (1965) and Never Say Never Again (1983 unofficial remake)
Just in case I have followers from the East Coast, I hope every one of you is alright. :)
Treasure Cay, Bahamas by SetsNService on Flickr.
Turtle Cay, Bahamas by SetsNService on Flickr.
Bahamas by Ronia Nash on Flickr.
Floating Star by Perrin James on Flickr.
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets (rocks). It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States (nearest to the state of Florida). Its total land area is 13,939 km2 (5,382 sq mi), with an estimated population of 330,000. Its capital is Nassau. Geographically, The Bahamas lie in the same island chain as Cuba, Hispaniola and the Turks and Caicos Islands; the designation of Bahamas refers normally to the Commonwealth and not the geographic chain.
Originally inhabited by the Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taino people, The Bahamas were the site of Columbus’ first landfall in the New World in 1492. Although the Spanish never colonized The Bahamas, they shipped the native Lucayans to slavery in Hispaniola. The islands were mostly deserted from 1513 to 1648, when English colonists from Bermuda settled on the island of Eleuthera.
The Bahamas became a Crown Colony in 1718 when the British clamped down on piracy. Following the American War of Independence, thousands of pro-British loyalists and enslaved Africans moved to The Bahamas and set up a plantation economy. The slave trade was abolished in the British Empire in 1807 and many Africans liberated from slave ships by the Royal Navy were settled in The Bahamas during the 19th century. Slavery itself was abolished in 1834 and the descendants of enslaved and liberated Africans form the bulk of The Bahamas’s population today.
In terms of GDP per capita, the Bahamas is the third richest country in the Americas (following the United States and Canada), the richest south of the Mexico–US border, and the richest in the world whose population is predominantly of African origin.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Bahrain by Night by S B K on Flickr.
Modren textel sale !!! !!! البزاز الحديث by Isa Alwatani on Flickr.
Bahrain Fort 2 by AL-ZAYER on Flickr.
Our favourite house in our neighborhood! by young shanahan on Flickr.