A few minutes walk from a glorious beach, inexpensive, quality accommodation on Exuma Bahamas needs checking out.
A Bahamas vacation means different things to different people. If it means high class hotels, with everything laid on beside a turquoise sea, a pool with willing bar staff, a golf course, all inclusive, with a kids club, and lots of activities and night life, then please stop reading now.
What this article is about is a Bahamas Vacation slightly off the beaten track, probably not for children, but definitely for couples of any age. It is on Exuma about ten minutes walk from the beautiful Hooper’s Beach, and it is bed and breakfast accommodation, and it is called Coral Gardens.
Coral Gardens has five rooms on a quiet hillside and has beautiful views of the sea, and is rated the top bed and breakfast on Exuma. It describes itself as bed and breakfast accommodation with apartments. The best advice is to book the one bedroom apartment with kitchen and sun deck with a partial sea view. The kitchen is adequate for small meals, and it has a washing machine, but no tumble dryer, the bathroom is huge, there is satellite television and air conditioning if you feel you need it, because there are screened windows which let in the breeze.
The best reason for staying in the apartment as opposed to the bed and breakfast accommodation is quite frankly the cost of eating out on the island. The only meal supplied is breakfast, and good as it is, you are going to need food again during the day!!
In terms of supplies, there is a bank almost within walking distance, and another five minutes drive away in Georgetown. There are also three grocery stores within easy reach, and between them you will get everything you will need. The restaurants that are worth visiting include Cocoplums with its own beach north of the Coral Gardens, Santanas on Little Exuma, Splash at Palm Bay, St Francis, and Chat n’ Chill across the harbour by water taxi from Georgetown.
It must be obvious from all of this, that you will need transport, and the best rates are those offered through Peter and Berry, who apart from being terrific hosts are also a fount of knowledge about what to do and where to go on Exuma.
The island is as close to paradise as you could wish for, with really clear clean turquoise sea, white sand beaches, and no crowds.
Coral Gardens is probably the top bed and breakfast accommodation on Exuma, and very close to being the best in the Bahamas. Apart from the spotless rooms, the view, and the breakfasts a large part of this is due to the owners Peter and Berry who will help you plan your days. This is the kind of place for people who know how to organise and entertain themselves, who just don’t like modern hotels or their guests. You will meet like minded people here, and build the kind of memories that won’t fade with time, and as many others have said, you will want to come back, and that about says it all.
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K Street, Where Democracy is Always For Sale
“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.” Napoleon Bonaparte
America is considered to have the best democracy money can buy, and for the last twenty five years, The Centre for Responsive Politics has been monitoring and tracking the money flow of US politicians.
It is a not for profit organisation with no affiliation to the Republicans or the Democrats, and its store front is a wonderful website called : OpenSecrets.org with rich databases that ‘keep the b@#$ds honest’ on K-Street. This site has won accolades’ and awards from dozens of quality political commentators. Now in fairness to our current system, that website and the CRP would not exist without the power of the US Constitution, defending the right of free speech and certainly would not be allowed in many other countries.
What is ‘K-Street’: K Street is a main road that begins in Georgetown Washington DC in the North West of the city and ends at the North Eastern part of the city at Florida Avenue just down from Gallaudet University. The street is famous for the many lobby groups that are based there.
Down on K-Street people give money, people take money? Who gets it, and really what does it all mean? We can use and twist statistics to paint any picture we like, but as a complete novice, I entered the OpenSecrets.org web site and started pushing buttons. The questions in my mind were who gives the most both as an individual and corporate entity. Were these groups linked? What did they hope to get out of this. Those specifics fell from me as did my jaw when I saw the sheer size of the numbers.
In 2008 a staggering $3.3 billion dollars was spent pushing agendas. From 1998 to mid 2009, the porkbarrel was filled to the tune of $25.18 billion dollars. Let me repeat that for affect: $25,180,000,000.00 dollars of dressed up political bribery.
Now for a little bit of perspective, the following list of education services was provided in the state of California in 2008:
ESEA Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies School Improvement Grants Title I Childhood Grants Reading First State Grants Even Start State Agency Program–Migrant State Agency Program–Neglected and Delinquent Comprehensive School Reform (Title I) Impact Aid Basic Support Payments Impact Aid Payments for Children with Disabilities Impact Aid Construction Improving Teacher Quality State Grants Mathematics and Science Partnerships Educational Technology State Grants 21st Century Community Learning Centers State Assessments Rural and Low-income Schools Program Small, Rural School Achievement Program Indian Education–Grants to Local Educational Agencies Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities State Grants Language Acquisition State Grants
An impressive list of government funded services that were provided to this states 9,300,000+ children under 18 years of age Total Cost: approximately $2,700,000,000+ that $2.7 billion dollars.
This is where I paint my picture with stats. Ten years of political bribery money that flowed down K-Street into God knows who’s pockets could of funded the above mentioned childrens programs for 9 years. Or the equivalent of 86 million (86,000,000) American children.
The ‘who gives and ‘who takes’ is interesting but tragically irrelevent when the waste reveals our skewed priorities. Lets face it, when we pay a certain quarterback with the Steelers $27,700,000 per year to throw 17 touchdowns and average Joe Firefighter Paramedic $63,000 to save childrens lives.., thats only 25 lives per touch down, yep we have it altogether.