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No cars were allowed into Bermuda until 1948, now, for a population of 65,000 on an island of 21 square miles, there are more than 40,000 cars. Before cars there were horse and buggies, bicycles and for a short time a railroad. The horse and buggies have survived for the last sixty years as a novelty ride for tourists. Under large trees, on the main shopping thoroughfare, Front Street, they wait for the tourists to disembark from the cruise ships.
The buggies are living antiques. The drivers dressed in their white shirts and ties take tourists on a half hour tour of Hamilton. They clip clop through the city at a leisurely place. People smile when they see these charming vehicles from another time. The big white buggy's can easily hold a whole family. The tourists enjoy the ride.
They are especially nostalgic to me because when I got married in Bermuda, carriages took the wedding party from Hamilton to the Elbow Beach Surf club. Riding through the street you were the center of attention. You felt like the Queen of England riding through London in her carriage acknowledging the waves and cheers from people in the street
The reason I say their days are numbered is that twice in the last year, frightened horses have run wild on Front Street. People's lives were endangered. Their nostalgic appeal is being weighed against their danger to tourists. Why risk bad publicity that could hurt tourism? There are also plans to no longer dock the cruise ships along Front Street but to dock them many miles away at Dockyard in Somerset. In a few years they will probably disappear.
Hamilton, Bermuda is 1,200 miles from the Caribbean. This is not a lazy, impoverished, West Indian back water. This is a city of rich lawyers, accountants, investment analysts, bankers and underwriters. Horses don't fit in with traffic congestion and rush hours.
If you have ever wanted to feel like royalty, you had better grab a ride on a horse and buggy in Bermuda while you can. Address: Front Street Bermuda
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