The BahamasMapMay 15–16, 2013 The Bahamas inherited their details from Great Britain and the US. ![]() The zigzags leading up to crosswalks are British (like in London or Mauritius). ![]() The street signs are American. ![]() The police station sign is British (like in Guernsey). ![]() The “neighbors will rat you out” sign is American (like in the USA or Australia). ![]() The police uniforms are British. ![]() The traffic lights are American. ![]() The post boxes are British. ![]() The payphones are American. ![]() The traffic signs are British. ![]() The license plates are American. ![]() Do the Bahamas have anything of their own, anything Bahamian? ![]() Anything besides the pineapple, which appears on everything from coats of arms to weather vanes? ![]() There aren’t many things, but there are a few. The bus stops, for instance. ![]() The vehicle inspection slips. ![]() The decorative plastic casings for telecom equipment. ![]() The concrete footpaths decorated with imprints of leaves and branches to look like the latter fell onto the wet cement by chance. ![]() The small concrete pyramids which serve as barriers in areas with privately-owned houses. ![]() And, finally, the most peculiar local object—the incredibly hideous fire hydrant. ![]() Giant cruise liners chock-full of tourists come here for some reason. ![]() Although there’s hardly anything worth seeing. The only thing that makes the Bahamas any more interesting than, say, Saipan is the presence of one kilometer’s worth of colonial architecture. ![]() Or perhaps people come to see the trashcans shaped like gunpowder barrels, with garbage bags unattractively folded over the top. ![]() After a tour of the capital’s main street, everyone is herded over to a pseudo-historical toy-like stage set for shopping. ![]() Then to a casino. ![]() And then back to the cruise ship. * * * Americans have set up an interesting system in the Bahamas. If you’re flying to the States, you can go through (or, accordingly, fail to go through) US passport control right at the Nassau airport. And that’s it—after that, you continue onwards as though you were on a domestic US flight. Like every American airport, this one has portraits of Obama and other officials on the walls, flags displayed in the manner of Roman legion standards, and prohibitions on photography and cell phone use. America will never have a shortage of people of below-average stature yelling, “Sir, turn that off immediately!” ![]() |
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