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10/23/2010

The Bahamas: Never mind the celebrities – hiding away on Harbour Island is heaven

“…Harbour Island measures 3½ miles long by 1½ miles wide and has a population of just 2,500. It’s like a model village, where everyone is friendly and polite. Wild chickens peck by the roadside, cockerels sing a ferocious dawn chorus, bakeries heave with breads and pastries.

There are no noisy bars, but somebody is always on hand to make cocktails with names such as Goombay Smash.

The preferred method of transport for locals and travelers alike is the golf buggy. Life here is run at a sedate, relaxed pace. But it is not quaint. There is a cosmopolitan feel about the place. Computer king Michael Dell and his entourage had left the day we arrived…”

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