Honeymoon in Bermuda: St. George

We got to Bermuda in the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday, and docked at the Royal Naval Dockyards.  We decided to go to St. George on the first day since it was the furthest, and seemed like it was the coolest town we'd see since the weather cancelled our shipwreck snorkeling (boo!).  Our main gameplan was to spend a day in each of the three cities so we would only need a two day bus pass, since we would spend the last day in the town where the boat was docked.  We saved 10 bucks that way!

So anyway, took the ferry to St. George. 

Waiting for the ferry

On the ferry

All the pastel houses

St. George might be a contender for the quaintest town ever. It was the first settled town(?) when the settlers were coming to America from Europe, so the whole infrastructure of the town is like 400 years old!  The first thing we did coming off the ferry was get some lunch.  The ferries are a great way to get around Bermuda, but it is a 45 minute ride to get from the Dockyards to St. George!  We ate at the White Horse Pub which was right off the pier to the ferry.  We had to sample the famous Bermudan Dark N' Stormy.  Preeeety good, and very strong!  The food was very good, the prices were steep, but that is to be expected when you are a tiny island 600 miles from any mainland place.  Aaron says it was the best fish and chips of his life!

Don't even think about snagging this book as a free souvenir!  lol

Aaron having a Dark N' Stormy

After we refueled we did some exploring.  We didn't have an exact gameplan of stuff to see, but winging it was pretty easy.  The place is small and you can walk to all the places pretty easily, and there are signs galore pointing you to places worth seeing. 

Lots of tourists.

We were welcomed by a steel drum band :)

Once we walked past the main town square area, we found St. Peter's Church which was founded when the settlers got there.  It celebrated its 400th birthday this year!  Needless to say, it was really neat, and Aaron the history geek was in heaven!

Wow!

The Hinktinez's were here.

So very old

Pretty places to kneel

Cemetery out back.  The weather took all the names off the headstones.

I suppose that while the men were at sea back in the day all the ladies did was go to church, because we passed by nearly a dozen different churches while in town.  We also went to the unfinished church which was really cool.  A big giant storm ripped the building's roof off ages ago and no one ever finished building it.  It was cool and a little bit spooky!  We couldn't go inside because it was structurally unsound.  Bummer.

After walking about some more we decided to have a sit in a park we found.  We saw a legit Bermudan in the official Bermudan business attire - your top half is a regular suit, bottom half is Bermuda shorts and knee socks.  Oh, British people!  lol

It being baby blue makes it that much better, huh? :)

We were pretty beat after all the walking around town and such so we caught the ferry back to the boat and ate a free dinner there.  The food in Bermuda is pretty much all pub food, so once a day for fried stuff is good enough! 

I promise I will be more timely with the remainder of our trip updates!