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Hamilton City - Part 2

These are some of the highlights on the way to town...

Bacardi - like my favouritest drink ever! - is just 2 steps away from our hotel Rosedon. We walk pass it at least 2x a day. I for one, drool everytime i pass it cos, have i forgotten to mention? I am the greatestest fan of Bacardi Rum OK?!? [I'm sounding drunk already just by blogging about it.] Anyway, Bacardi occupies an architecturally modern building with the double volume ceiling, glass facade and water features. Bermuda actually makes a lot of things with rum e.g. rum cakes. haven't tasted those yet, will describe more once i get a hold of one.




Along Pitts Bay Road (which is where we stay) to town, other than Bacardi, these are the other buildings you'll see. They face the harbour so there are times when you can hear the "horns" of the ships (are they called horns? i'll find out on wiki later.) I half suspect these pink and yellow ones are apartments (highly expensive ones because of their location) but hao-e thinks they are offices. I dun mind working in them i tell you, but don't they just look so sweet and edible? (the white portions look like icing dun they?)



Beside the nice pink and yellow building on Front Street (Pitts Bay Road leads on to Front Street, and its called "Front" Street cos its the street "front"ing the harbour. Get it? i made that up myself haha but dun you think it sounds logical?!) this modenista building looks imposing, and deadly. You see those nice-looking fern-like bushes near the steps? Those have deadly thorns on them. All of them have thorns. "Sha qi hen zhong" ah... And right after this scary building is Bermudiana Road where hao-e's office is situated. His office isn't much to look at from the outside so just imagine a really boring 4 storeyed cream coloured building on the side of a street with boring windows and black lettering spelling out the building's name. Nothing much to look at, so its not going to appear on this page. Heh.

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Anonymous said…
Halo my dear, rem ur own advice - steph
Anonymous said…
haha... okok, i know. friday night was kinda crazy cos we started drinking at 5.30pm and it was beer after beer and wine after wine plus one rum swizzle. so i was pretty zonked out by midnight when we hit the sacks. my poor liver. but it was loads of fun.
~joop~

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