{"id":23114,"date":"2020-03-30T17:01:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T22:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=23114"},"modified":"2024-10-04T10:53:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:53:54","slug":"bermuda-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/bermuda-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Bermuda Shorts, Part 9 (Lists)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I like to count a bunch of different things and that didn’t change simply because I went on vacation. If anything, it actually accelerated it. I’m always looking for opportunities to grow my lists. So I thought I’d wrap-up this final article in the Bermuda series with a summary of my progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Parish Counting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Crossing from Pembroke Parish into the City of Hamilton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I couldn’t do any county counting<\/a> because Bermuda didn’t have any counties. However, they had parishes and I could count those instead. It really didn’t take much effort. The archipelago stretches only 22 miles (35 kilometres) and reaches barely a mile thick at its widest. A trip from stem to stern hits just about everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Parishes and Municipalities of Bermuda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Parishes in Bermuda traced back to the early days of settlement. The Virginia Company founded the initial colony but handed it back to King James I in 1614. He then chartered the Somers Isles Company. The new company carved Bermuda into nine nearly equivalent parcels for its investors. Originally they called them “tribes” and only later did they became “parishes.” Two municipalities joined the cast later, the Town of St. George and the City of Hamilton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parishes once served as administrative divisions. They exist today mostly for ceremonial and cultural purposes. Nonetheless everybody seemed to have an awareness of them and they mattered. Despite that, parishes “don’t have any administrative or legal role<\/a>.” Signs along primary roads continued to mark the borders — like the City of Hamilton marker I visited (map<\/a>) — so I happily counted them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the week I visited all nine parishes and both municipalities many times. I know, it didn’t take much effort. We stayed at multiple places during our trip so I also got 3 overnight visits (St. George’s Parish, Southampton Parish, Pembroke Parish).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dockyard Brewing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dockyard Brewing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Two breweries operated on Bermuda during the time of our visit and only one was open to the public. Naturally we headed over to Dockyard Brewing Company<\/a> in the Royal Naval Dockyard complex. It served as the house brewery for the Frog and Onion , a traditional brewpub (map<\/a>). My brewery visit page<\/a> now includes a nice new push-pin in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only other brewery worked out of an industrial park on the edge of the City of Hamilton. In the U.S. that would be a perfect spot for a tasting room. However, On De Rock Craft Brewery<\/a> didn’t have one. I enjoyed several of their beers at local restaurants instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hamilton to Dockyard Ferry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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