Travel & Vacation

Whether you are the sort of person who enjoys long and exotic cruises around the world, or perhaps exploring the cultures of far away lands, or maybe just a weekend away in the country, you will share at least one common experience with all other travelers, and that is the problem of luggage.

Luggage comes in all sizes and shapes, with materials today which sound more like the types of material used to build spaceships, rather than a case to transport your underwear to a hotel for the weekend. Most of us have a collection of bags and cases which we have acquired over the years – possibly each was purposely bought for a particular type of trip. Some people have decided to purchase a complete set of matching luggage, but one thing that we all have to decide, is which one to use for a particular trip? Read More

Comments (0) Jul 29 2009

Christopher Columbus’s first landfall in the New World was on an island he named San Salvador (known to the Lucayans as Guanahahani) which may be Samana Cay or present-day San Salvador Island (also known as Watling’s Island), in the central part of the Bahamas archipelago. In 1973, the Bahamas became fully independent, but retained membership in the Commonwealth of Nations. The Bahamas national football team is the national team of the Bahamas and is controlled by the Bahamas Football Association.

The Bahamas is one of the wealthiest Caribbean countries with an economy heavily dependent on tourism and offshore banking. The Bahamas were a Crown colony from 1717 until they were granted internal self-government in 1964. The government fully operates 158 of the 210 primary and secondary schools in The Bahamas. For decades, the white-dominated United Bahamian Party (UBP) ruled The Bahamas, then a dependency of the United Kingdom, while a group of influential white merchants, known as the “Bay Street Boys,” dominated the local economy. Read More

Comments (0) Jul 15 2009