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2024-10-25
of vacations and smiles

sunset behind Elbow Beach Resort, Bermuda

2024-02-15 – Sigma DP2
sunset behind Elbow Beach Resort, Bermuda

(youtube) Manau «Mais qui est la belette»

even in late winter / early spring, Bermuda was an amazing vacation – beautiful beaches, delicious food (as long as you avoided the high-end / resort / fine-dining options), and friendly people – but that friendliness came at a price, the smiles were the smiles of service workers – very much a class-stratified, colonial structure, yachties on one end, service workers on the other – and talking to them, the conditioning started early, an ingrained respect for «their betters» and «their elders» which had no bearing on whether that respect was deserved or not

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