TWiB November Tabloid by This Week In Bermuda

NOVEMBER 2013

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Shop Local Shop Early With Christmas window displays popping up around town and inbox holiday save the dates, it’s time to start thinking about gift ideas and preparing for the best holiday today. Below are four ideas to get your started. Look out for our full Christmas Gift Guide in TWiB’s Decembers Magazine, Tabloid & at thisweek.bm.

1 3 Letter from the editor

8 Heritage Matters

4 shop local gift ideas

9 Do You Know

5 Bermuda Ha Ha

10 Golf

4 NTDIB Calendar of events

11 eat & Drink

5 art in the community

12 The Chef’s Table

6 health & beauty

14 It’s All Happening

7 Bermuda Books

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Monday - Saturday 10:00am - 5:00pm 441 236 9009 | alexandramosher.com | 7 Reid St. Washington Mall

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Letter From The Editor It’s National Pomegranate Month! With Candice Dickinson

Pomegranates are antioxidant packed, skin food-rich fruits and if not peeled and eaten properly they can make a big mess! Here are a few steps to correctly peel and eat this glourious fruit!

Bermuda Fine Art, Antique Maps, Books, Prints and Ephemera Anthony Pettit | 441 292 2482 | anthonypettit.com

1. Cut the crown of the fruit and thow it out. 2. Score the rind of the pomegranate in several places, but be sure not to cut all the way through. 3. Prepare a bowl of water and soak the fruit upside down for ten minutes or so. 4. Break apart the pomegranate and remove the seeds letting them sink to the bottom of the bowl. 5. Using a sieve, remove everything but the seeds and juice from the bowl. 6. Drain the seeds with a collander and pat dry with paper towel. You can store the seeds in tupperware for up to two days in the fridge.

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7. Put the juice also in tupperware and it can aslo be stored in the fridge for a few days. Enjoy!

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Bermuda HA HA The Life of a Reporter By ROGER CROMBIE

When I was a reporter in Bermuda, despite being the friendliest guy around, I managed to upset the PR department of every large insurer on the Island, usually without trying. One of the very largest companies was once one of the very smallest. I helped by writing press releases, annual reports, doctors’ prescriptions (just kidding) and so forth. Then they became huge and did a dumb thing, which they had to own up to. The boss told me so that I could tell everyone else. The company’s PR department became enraged that I had done so. “Why can’t you be like (another reporter)?” they asked. “He does exactly what we tell him.” I explained that I was a proper reporter. “Right!” the woman said. “You have to meet with our general counsel”, the top legal man. A friend advised me not to go. “The man is a monster,” my friend said. “He’ll eat you alive.” Excellent, I replied, and what a great story: Man eats reporter. Tragically, the general counsel was a coward and cancelled the interview before it could happen. Some monster. Much the same thing happened with a Government Minister.

He said something very dumb, something very, very dumb indeed. Something you’d ground your seven-year-old for saying, for a year. So I reported it, which was my job. I was hauled in to meet the Minister. The Permanent Secretary explained that the Minister had indeed said the words in public, but hadn’t wanted it reported. “Then he should have been an editor, not a Minister,” I explained. “Either way, you’re going to receive a beating,” the PS said. Excellent, I replied, and what a great story: Minister beats reporter. “Wait here,” the PS said, and that meeting was cancelled too. I once made a mistake. Shocking, I know, but there it is. I said a guy was from somewhere that he wasn’t from. He was a big shot at a reinsurance company. I was banned for years from entering the company or even dreaming about it. Eventually, the company needed something that only I could provide. In I went, and bumped into the dude. I apologised profusely. “No need,” he said. “I wish I were what you said I was.” Eight years in the wilderness for nothing. I could fill this magazine thrice over with such stories, but for some reason they like having lots of articles in it, not just one. So I’ll close with a short tale. One PR guy said he’d land me an interview with the top man, if I would write his reporter wife’s stories for her for a week, so that they could go on vacation. Like a fool, I agreed, but the stories required specialist knowledge of the kind it takes a lifetime to accumulate. I simply couldn’t write them. When they returned from hols, I was banned from the company for life. Ah, the life of a reporter. No matter how badly you’re treated, there’s always a story: Reporter finishes article.

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November calendar 08 PartnerRe Art Lecture Series with Jessica Regan

5:30pm. Bermuda National Gallery. Info: 295 9428 Convening of Parliament Cabinet Building Grounds, Front St., Hamilton

09 St. Paul’s Guild Plant and Bake Sale with Car Wash 9:00am. St. Paul’s, 69 Middle Rd., Paget. Info: 236 5880 La Leche League Monthly Series Meeting 10:30am. First Floor Conference Room KEMH. Info: 236 1120 Kids Music Fest 2:00pm & 4:30pm. Earl Cameron Theatre. Info: bermudamagic@hotmail.com World Rugby Classic Week until Nov 16 Nov 9 - 16. National Stadium. $25 from pTix.bm. Info & full schedule on page 14

10 Poetry Reading by Ronald Lightbourne

5:00pm, St Peter’s Church, 33 York Street, St George’s. Free. Info: office@stpeters.bm. Veterans in Action: Half Pint, Admiral Tibet & Courtney Melody 8:00pm at Cedarbridge Academy’s North Courtyard. $50 in advance from BDAtix.bm.

11 Remembrance Day

Public Holiday Island Wide Consult the Royal Gazette for event info.

12 L’Alliance Française des Bermudes Ciné Club:

Populaire 8:00pm at BUEI, Pembroke $5 for members, $10 for non-members, $5 for students.

14 Bermuda Fashion Collective Show

6:00pm, Bermuda Society of Arts. $40 or $70 for front row seats and available from BSoA or BDAtix.bm. Info: 292-3824 or bsoa@ibl.bm. Historical Heartbeats Lecture Series: Film Night 6:00pm at Bermuda National Library. Free. Info: 292-1681 or kdrobinson@gov.bm.

15 BRFU Rugby Booze Cruise

Departs Front Street at 6:00pm. $20 ($15 for Classic players) at Kit ‘n’ Caboodle, BRFU Members and on the boat. Info: devrae@brfu.bm. BASE Gaming For Change 9pm at Club Vasco de Gama. $75 BDAtix.bm. Info: callanb@cbmktsolutions.com.

16 P.A.L.S. Annual Fair

St. Paul’s Church Christian Education Centre, Middle Road, Paget Info: 441 236 7257, email pals@northrock. bm or website www.pals.bm The West Market 9:00am at the Warren Simmons Field. Free. Info: 732-6681 or thewestmarket@gmail.com. The City Market 8am at Pier 6 Front Street, Hamilton

360 Fall Movie Night Series 22 Sandys 7:00pm. Sandys Secondary Middle School.

$5 per person, registration online Sandys360.bm. Info: info@sandys360.bm or call 234-6195.

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22 MAMA Annual Fundraiser & Christmas Wine Tasting 7:300pm at Discovery Wines. $60 and can be purchased from social@mama.bm

23 First Annual Cornerstone Golf Challenge

12:30pm at Newstead Belmont Hills Golf Resort. $150 per person. Info: golfchallenge@cornerstone.bm Bermuda Nights 8pm at Barr’s Bay Park. Info: Free. 292-0023 or tcthompson@gov.bm.

24 Fancy Nancy Tea Soiree

2:00pm at Sandys Secondary Middle School. $10 per guest. Info 234 6195 or info@sandys360.bm. In Motion Nutcracker’s Tea Party 3:00pm at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess. $35 or $55 for patrons and available on pTix.bm.

28 Thanksgiving Buffet at Grotto Bay Beach Resort

6:30pm at Grotto Bay. Cost is $49 per person. Reservations: Info: 293 8333 or catering@grottobay.com.

29 Lighting of the Tree Ceremony &

arrival of Santa at City Hall 5:30pm, City Hall & Arts Centre. Church Street, Hamilton In partnership with friends of Hospice. Info: www.cityhall.bm Late Night Shopping 6:00pm - 9:00pm, Court Street (Between Victoria & Angle) & Reid Street (Between Burnaby & Queen) Info: www.cityhall.bm CashforNash Mission Fundraiser 6:00pm at Masterworks, Paget $60 from pTix.bm. Info: inash@afsmith.bm or 536 8691

30 Sandys 360 White Elephant Sale

10:00pm at Sandys 360 Centre. Info: 234 6195 or email chenderson@sandys360.bm. Carter House Christmas Party 4:00pm - 7:00pm. Carter House, 43 Southside Road, St. David’s Island, Info: 297 1953 or rspurling@logic.bm Home-Grown Alternatives Shopping Event 10:00am – 4:00pm, St. Paul’s Christian Education Centre, Middle Road, Paget Info: 238 6738 or homegrownalternatives.com November Art Exhibits Bermuda National Gallery – until November 23rd .Charlotte Anna Lefroy Botanicals from the Bermuda National Trust Collection .Meredith Andrews: Fathers .Eyes on the World Extension (new work) Bermuda Society of Arts - until November 19 .Onions Gallery: TECHART 2013 .Edinburgh Gallery: Loud and Quiet Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art .Charman Prize 2013 - until January 1st .Ground Control – until November 20th Bermuda Arts Centre at Dockyard - Nov 18 - Jan 10 ‘Small Works’ Opening night November 18.

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Art IN THE COMUNITY Charman Prize 2013

With masterworks museum of bermuda art

The Charman Prize is a community art prize competition at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art, which exhibits artwork inspired by Bermuda and honors and supports Bermuda artists in the creation of their artwork. By celebrating a wide array of artwork from Bermuda’s artistic community, the Charman Prize encourages visual artists of all abilities, working in all techniques and mediums to exhibit and share their works as members of the community. The Charman Prize aspires to support and inspire the artists towards excellence in their medium and to further artistic accomplishments. This Year’s winner is Teresa Kirby Smith with her work titled Analog Gombey Goes Digital.

Competing with 103 entrants, Ms. Kirby Smith’s entry, a gelatin silver photograph and ink jet digital photograph piece entitled “Analog Gombey Goes Digital” uses the photographic medium to represent a Gombey. The piece was chosen for being an outstanding example of the competition’s four judging criteria; Design and Composition – fine use of the principles and elements of design and composition; Use of Material —technical mastery and skill in a chosen medium; Distinctive and Convincing Style—a highly developed quality of creativity and originality; and Source of Inspiration—a clear intent and vision. Prize for Design Masterworks and composition Collection Prize Vaughan Evans Winner & Prize for use “Howard’s Cycle Yard” of materials. Sharon Indian ink on paper Wilson “Untitled” Encaustic on birch ply

Prize for Source of Inspiration Dany Pen “Formalities” Photograph on aluminum

Prize for Distinctive and Convincing Style Jüliz Ritchie “12 Red Bottles” Original cyanotype print

For more information on The Charman Prize competition contact 299-4000 or visit www.bermudamasterworks.com. Gallery Hours: Mon — Sat 10am til 4pm, Sun 11am til 4:30pm. Location: Bermuda Botanical Gardens, Paget

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Health & Beauty Thermage CPT

By Willi Lawerence, Dermatology & Skin Care Centre

Bold & Beautiful BROWS!

With Hanifah Smith, lush makeup lash & brow bar By Candice Dickinson

If you’re not walking around with beautiful full arches, your look just won’t be complete! Great eyebrows are an instant confidence booster. When properly shaped, eyebrows frame the face naturally complementing facial features. If your brows are bushy and over grown, your face will appear disheveled regardless of daily beautifying efforts. Dr. Romeo & Willi have been offering Thermage since 2004

It’s new, it’s revolutionary and it’s better than ever! CPT (Comfort Pulse Technology) provides a faster, more comfortable anti-aging skin tightening treatment better than our previous model. Unlike other skin tightening devices including bi-polar technologies, the CPT can deliver results in a single treatment. Thermage tightens skin with its proprietary MONOPOLAR radiofrequency that safely delivers heat and energy to all three layers of the skin. This is the device that has been seen on Oprah, The Doctors, Good Morning America, various magazines as well as other media outlets. Solta Medical received FDA clearance in 1999 and has a patent on Thermage. Thermage, botox and fillers are becoming quite the trend for men. Basically for the same reasons that women are attracted to these antiaging treatments. There is no downtime and results are very natural if done by an experienced health care provider. In today’s job market there is more competition and a youthful look is becoming as important to men as it is for women. Just released on May 6, 2013 the company announced the new Total Tip. We were very lucky to have received the new tip with our CPT machine. I am seeing visible results with patients right off the table in their face, neck and jowls. I had the treatment myself and have photos that show my progress over two months time. With the new vibrating hand-piece it was like having a warm facial. As we age and get more sun exposure our collagen breaks down and skin starts to sag and wrinkle. Thermage stimulates your collagen to produce more over the next six months, lasting for years. So give your skin some TLC (tightens, lift and contour). Call for a free consultation with Ms. Lawrence to find out if you are a candidate for Thermage. Call 295-9963 or email botoxwili@hotmail.com

Brow shaping can take anywhere from fifteen minutes to a half hour depending on the condition of your current brows. At Lush, Hanifah Smith starts by assessing your current shape, looking at the amount of hair you have, and mapping out your perfect arch while accessing how far your brow tail must go to properly frame your face. Hanifah looked at my brows and immediately told me to stop tweezing! She explained that the more I tweeze, the more I will stunt my hair growth. She also explained that I have dark hair, dark eyes and dark lashes so not having properly groomed eyebrows is like a missing feature. It turns out that my arch was in the wrong place creating an overly expressive look. My husband called it years ago and has been shouting, “blue steel” when he catches me looking in the mirror. Hanifah waxed only where she wanted to remove hair and left space encouraging growth where needed. In three to six weeks I will return and she will assess my brow growth and continue to create my ideal shape. Hanifah is the only trained and certified Brow Artist in Bermuda. She trained at Billion Dollar Brows in Beverly Hills, the only cosmetic company exclusively dedicated to eyebrows. When clients have difficulty growing hair where they have been plucking for years, Hanifah recommends a product available exclusively at Lush called Brow Boost made by Billion Dollar Brows. It is a deep conditioning treatment designed to help strengthen & condition thin, over-tweezed brows. Clients started to recognize brows done by Hanifah and would tell her that she has her own signature look. It only made sense to brand her signature beauty service. Hanifah thought about all of the different products she was using from various cosmetic lines, pencils from one brand, brushes and powders from another. She figured that a complementing line of eyebrow cosmetics would be ideal! She began the research and soon after, the development of her custom made cosmetics was in fruition. Below: Hanifah’s Signature Eyebrow Cosmetics Line

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Bermuda Books

Health & Beauty

Just in time for Holiday Gift Giving

In The New Year, Meet The New You

With Horst Augustinovic & The Bermuda Rose Society

with Caroline Tee, Horizon Health By Candice Dickinson

ROSES IN BERMUDA

REVISITED

“Oh what a tangled web was knotted When the first red China rose was spotted” —Landscaping With Antique Roses G. Michael Shoup and Liz Druitt

With the holidays approaching many amp up their fitness efforts preparing to burn extra calories and look their best at Christmas Functions as naughty holidays snacks dance about in close proximity. Some never got started after making last years resolutions and some just give up at this point hoping to meet a new reflection in the mirror after wiping away the holiday residue. Whatever your situation, Caroline Tee is in the process of designing Bermuda’s best personal fitness and nutrition centre complete with an organic café.

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With a focus on corrective posture, alignment and functional training, Caroline says “you can expect an unparalleled experience at Horizon Health”. Customized programs will assist all fitness levels and with the ability to book your sessions around your busy lifestyle, there is just no room for excuses in 2014.

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Heritage Matters

The ruins of one of the St. Eustatius warehouses of its glory years of the 1770s; Bermudians had considerable financial interests in that West Indies island in that period (courtesy of Marius Popma).

“Bamboo Billy” Goes To Statia By Dr. Edward Harris, MBE JP

For a period, St. Eustatius was one of the richest places in the West Indies, with many warehouses lining the shore: Admiral Rodney destroyed the entrepot that when he took the island in 1781.

In the 1770s, the West Indies island of St. Eustatius became the place where the American rebels of the ‘Revolutionary War’ could obtain goods, especially war materiel, that were denied them in other places. The Dutch at ‘Statia’, with their many Bermudian business compatriots, were only too happy to oblige and many a fortune over some five years of trading.

ladies sewed such precious items into the cushions of Bermuda cedar chairs, which items of furniture they were allowed to take with them when ejected from Statia by the Admiral. Statia never recovered from the sacking by Rodney and Bermudian warehouses yet lie in ruin on the sea shore. When Hereward Watlington saw Government House in 1979, it had become a ruin in yellow brick. It was owned in the early nineteenth century by one Colonel De Veere. He refused to deviate when ‘his daughter suggested to him that he should consider marriage again, he would reply [of his late wife]: “I cannot replace her”…However his bed was not unoccupied’!

Unfortunately for the merchants of war, Admiral Rodney destroyed the mercantile centre at Statia in 1781, as he advanced through the West Indies putting paid to the French and other allies of the American rebels. Subsequently, the great naval man returned to England due to illness: it is said that had he remained on the West Indies and America station that he might have prevented the losses at the Chesapeake and Yorktown, perhaps delaying or negating the Independence of the United States.

Relative Molly Godet Thomas in the commodious chair made for St. Eustatius Governor Johannes de Graaff, whose wife was the Bermudian, Judith Godet (Governor de Graaf inset).

Two generations after the destruction, a famous Bermudian seaman, nicknamed ‘Bamboo Billy’, aka Captain William Hubbard Peniston (1828–1917), paid a visit to Statia in 1853 and left an interesting account, later published in the Bermuda Historical Quarterly. One hundred and twenty years later, the venerable Bermudian antiquarian and artist, Hereward Watlington also alighted on the island, but that time from a small, eight-seat aeroplane, rather than a twelve-gun Bermuda sloop. St. Eustatius, with its only town, looking towards its main volcanic peak in 1994: the ruins of the grand and marbled Government House of Governor de Graaf as seen in a recent photograph, inset.

Captain Peniston was one of the most respected sea masters of his day and often plied the ocean from Bermuda into the West Indies, bringing back sweet potatoes, among other southern goodies. At Statia in 1857, he observed that he ‘found many descendants of old Bermuda families who vied with each other in extending hospitality to me’. When Hereward Watlington visited over a century later, there were but a few such descendants left, noting that his ‘ancestress, Christina Love’ was born on Statia in 1739. In place of the living, Watlington brought home a list of the dead from the graveyard, including familiar names like Jennings, Hill, Godet, Packwood and Peniston. When I visited St. Eustatius in 1994, there was but one family of a Bermudian name, the Godets, possibly descendants of slaves of an owner of that surname. Bamboo Bill was greeted at Government House and remarked on its fine marble floors and the inability of its inhabitant, unlike the rest of Statia, to speak the Queen’s English. Upon the refusal to surrender the island in 1781, it was through the front door of the House that Rodney sent his first shot, which had the desired effect of capitulation. The Admiral and his marines ransacked the island, including digging up recently graves, in which bullion had been buried to keep it out of British hands. However, some Bermudian

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One of Bermuda's Leading Art Dealers

Anthony Pettit

Anthony Pettit Bermuda Fine Art, Antique Maps, Books, Prints and Ephemera Marshall Goodman American Painter 1916 – 2003

Watercolour sketch of Bermuda c1946. 15 x 24.5 inches The view is of Queen Street looking up from Heyl’s Corner. Heyl’s Drug Store is on the left, Whitter’s Jewelers followed by Cox and Wilson, then the present day Perot Post Office. On the right is the Cigar Store where Goslings is now. No cars of course but bicycles going in every direction and a little Bird Cage with an umbrella. Mr. Goodman, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, had painted murals in the US Navy Officer Club at the top of Queen Street during the war. Immediately post war he had ideas of painting major art works in oils of Bermuda scenes. This sketch was one of his first preliminaries into this field. Price on request

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Do You Know … About Bermuda’s Caves, Admiral Sir David Milne and a 600,000-year-old Stalagmite?

Britannia Royal Naval College

By HORST AUGUSTinovic

Bermuda probably has more caves per square mile than anywhere else in the world. These caves are located in the older rocks close to the current sea level, and were formed during periods of low water levels during glaciation cycles of the current ice age. These cycles occur on 40,000 to 100,000-year time scales and we are now in an interglacial period following the end of the last ice age some 10,000 years ago.

As Bermuda emerged upward from the ocean during these interglacial periods, the downward drag of water in dunes and depressions found weak pockets of limestone between the lower rocks, and these were eventually flushed out. The lowering water level then allowed air into these newly formed caves, causing the formation of drip-rock and in time, the formation of stalagmites and stalactites. Admiral Sir David Milne

Made of calcium carbonate, Spelothems grow as long as there is dripping water in an air-filled cave and become Stalagmites if growing from the floor and Stalactites if growing down from the ceiling. When they join, they become columns or pillars. Many caves that are now completely filled with water also contain Spelothems, indicating that they were once above sea level.

The lower part of Admiral’s Cave is now under water. The fact that there are Stalagmites in the water proves that the cave was once totally dry when sea levels were much lower during an ice age. Another view of Admiral’s Cave shows calcite mineral deposits that are known as flowstone draperies and wall rock. Mineral impurities in the calcite cause the range of colour.

76,000 cubic inches – concluded that it would have taken 600,000 years to form the stalagmite that his father had removed from the cave. This calculation assumed that the deposits occurred at exactly the same rate as in the previous 44 years, something that is highly unlikely. When HMS Challenger surveyed Bermuda in 1873, Sir C.W. Thomson had the stump of the stalagmite removed and also sent to the University of Edinburgh. According to David Summers, President of Crystal Caves, tragedy befell the Bermuda stalagmite in 1973 when the museum was being altered. Rather than remove the stalagmite from an upper floor, it was allowed to fall through several floors and was smashed to pieces.

A major group of caves is located to the east of Harrington Sound, the largest being Crystal Cave. Admiral’s Cave, another large cave, is located between Blue Hole Hill and Grotto Bay and almost entirely above sea level. It is called Admiral’s Cave after Admiral Sir David Milne, who in 1819 removed a massive stalagmite from the cave and presented it to his friend Professor Robert Jameson of the University of Edinburgh for the College Museum. The 1888 Bermuda Pocket Almanack contains the following report: “A splendid stalagmite cut from the Walsingham Caves is now in the Museum, Edinburgh, and has attached to it the following description: ‘Stalagmite of Carbonate of Lime Sawn from the Floor of a Cave in the Island of Bermuda’. The stalagmite was 11 feet 3 inches tall and weighed 3-1/2 tons. In1863 – 44 years after his father had removed the stalagmite – the Admiral’s son, Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, visited the cave where he had witnessed the removal as a boy, and found that 5 drips had formed small knobs of new matter on the stump of the stalagmite. He calculated that the new matter amounted to about 5 cubic inches and, as the stalagmite consisted of approximately 44 cubic feet – or The remaining stump of the Stalagmite removed by Admiral Sir David Milne is just over 2 feet in diameter. It shows that 16 holes were drilled into the Stalagmite before it was cut. Available Island-wide. Distributed by Burrows & Lightbourn.

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Golf across the island Is Port Royal Golf Course on your bucket list?

By KIM SWAN, J.P. Teaching Professional

Port Royal Golf Course is now on the bucket list of countless golfers who are planning to play our world class golf course following the broadcast around the globe in October when Bermuda played host to the PGA Grand Slam of Golf. What an event, as a focused Adam Scott brought his “A Game” to Bermuda and reaffirmed that the PGA Grand Slam of Golf is an event where you can witness world class golfers competing to win. And win Adam Scott did - with a final round 64 that was punctuated with a breathtaking eagle 3 on the 17th Hole to snatch victory away from Justin Rose - a shot that has become the talk of the town in Bermuda. The PGA Grand Slam provided a great atmosphere, with each golfer having their own following - in the crowds there were several Auburn logo hats and with fans who travelled from Mississippi to watch Jason Dufner. Padraig Harrington was a favourite amongst the strong Irish contingent in Bermuda, with Justin Rose and Adam Scott appealing to an emerging younger audience - with Adam Scott clearly attracting special attention from the ladies who were out in great numbers trying to catch a glimpse and an autograph. Adam Scott went about his task in business like fashion, with the end result being excellent golf played and the golf fans being treated to a fine display of golf from all competitors. The PGA of America and Bermuda have pulled off another first class event and we owe a huge thank you to the volunteers, organizing committee and the staff at Port Royal Golf Course. The months of uncertainty and anticipation in the lead up to this event was worth it and all credit to especially the Course Maintenance Staff for providing a world class golf course that ushered in a course record. This fall and winter we look forward to playing host to thousands of golfers from around the globe, desirous of playing the same course where Adam Scott shot that record breaking 64. We invite you to play Port Royal Golf Course to accept the challenge of our course and savour the exquisite beauty the course is set out on. Come enjoy a round of golf on the scenic Whale Bay Coastal.

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Eat & Drink Tribe Road Kitchen

Story & Photography By Ariana C. Francis If you’re looking for a healthy option for lunch, brunch, breakfast or dinner, look no further than the outskirts of town. Located at the edge of Reid Street is the newly refurbished Tribe Road Kitchen to satisfy one’s gluten free, vegan or vegetarian needs. Enjoy a hearty Thanksgiving-style roasted turkey sandwich on the patio, or relax in the outdoor bar on Fridays with a customized pizza from a wood-burning oven. What once was thought of as a coffee and pastry spot has grown significantly to include meals of all kinds, prepared with the freshest ingredients. With their spacious e nt e r t a i n m e nt area, this healthy eating establishment is the go-to location for Saturday or Sunday brunches. Located on the corner of King & Reid Street. Call today 734 1637 or visit www.triberoadkitchen.com

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Tucked into Washington Lane in the center of Hamilton is La Trattoria, one of Bermuda’s best and reasonably priced Italian restaurants. La Trattoria is conveniently located for locals and visitors during shopping excursions and relaxing lunch dates. Their wood burning pizza oven is the centerpiece of the restaurant and lays claim to the islands only oven of its kind. Chef Angelo D’Amato has been with the restaurant for more than twenty years. When he first arrived to the island in 1978, he was

stationed in Little Venice, a sister restaurant of La Trattoria also known for its fine Italian food and service. While growing up in Southern Italy on the Amalfi Coast, being a chef was always a goal for D’Amato. He attended a cooking school in Italy for three years and worked as a chef in Northern Italy before settling in Bermuda. Of the restaurant’s wood burning oven, D’Amato says that their pizza is made with the original Italian pizza in mind. Over fifteen kinds of pizza are offered on the menu, including the Vegetali Con Aglio pizza pictured on the right, which is low in cholesterol. For those who don’t speak Italian, that’s “Vegetables with Garlic” which includes assorted roasted vegetables, extra virgin olive oil, mozzarella, tomato sauce and pesto sauce.

RED takes a modern and global approach to the steakhouse dining experience. Centrally located in the heart of Hamilton. RED offers inspired dishes, vibrant atmosphere and an array of custom created menus for the holiday season to entertain clients, employees, locals and visitors alike. Visit our website for a complete listing of our menus. Dine in our intimate RED room, chic lounge, mezzanine seating, or our contemporary patio overlooking Front Street. Contact us today to make a reservation.

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A popular dish among regulars is the Lasagna Trattoria, layered with sheets of pasta, meat, cheese sauce and oven baked. “We cater to everyone, and aim to give a good product with good service at a fair price,” says D’Amato.

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