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**HEY THERE! GUESS WHAT?** 🌟
The paperback edition of my delightful children’s
book, **_Island Surprise: A Bahamian Adventure_**, is now **11% OFF** on
Amazon! 📚✨
⏳ **Limited time only**, so don’t miss your chance to grab it at the discounted price!
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**Spread the word** and share the news with fellow book lovers!
Here’s a great idea! Donate a copy of “Island
Surprise: A Bahamian Adventure”, an illustrated heart-warming story about
family and resilience, to your favourite school or library! I’m sure they would
be delighted to receive your gift. “Island Surprise” is available in paperback and
hardcover.
Buy from Amazon or if you're on the island get it from Logos Harbour Bay, and if you contact me, I would be delighted to autograph it for you!
A GARDEN VIEW OF “ISLAND SURPRISE: A BAHAMIAN
ADVENTURE”!
From a happy U.S. buyer of “Island Surprise: A
Bahamian Adventure”: “Very much enjoyed reading your children’s book!”
“Island Surprise: A Bahamian Adventure” was Ranked in
Amazon’s Top 100 Best Sellers in Elementary School Books in Australia shortly
after its release.
The book is available on Amazon at ISLAND SURPRISE in
paperback, hardcover and as an eBook.
Animated videos of “Island Surprise: A Bahamian
Adventure” (the story and illustrations) are at the foot of the Amazon book product
pages - PAPERBACK AND HARDCOVER.
AND
Video of Lower Deadman’s Cay (Long Island, Bahamas) students
giving reviews of “Island Surprise: A Bahamian Adventure” that they read with their
4th grade teacher Mrs. Paula Higgs-Knowles, at the foot of the
Amazon product page - KINDLE.
If you don't have a Kindle, you can still read Kindle
e-books by just downloading the free Kindle app at ABOUT KINDLE APP for most major smart
phones, tablets and computers.
Enjoy!
Erskine and Fay had the honour Tuesday evening of
meeting His Excellency Herschel Walker, Ambassador of the United States to the Commonwealth
of The Bahamas, and his wife, Mrs. Julie Walker, for a second time, and
Ambassador Walker bought three copies of Fay's illustrated children's book
"Island Surprise: A Bahamian Adventure"!
“Island Surprise: A Bahamian Adventure” was Ranked in
Amazon’s Top 100 Best Sellers in Elementary School Books in Australia shortly
after its release.
It is available on Amazon at ISLAND SURPRISE in
paperback, hardcover and as an eBook.
60 years ago, July 1st 1966, Erskine and I were married in St Anne's Anglican Church, Fox Hill, Nassau, Bahamas.
The priest, Father King, told me he didn't believe in a bride being late for her wedding so he wouldn't marry us if I was late! Imagine how frantic I was when the limousine Erskine had booked for me and the Father Giver, Erskine's boss Mr Ashton, didn't turn up for me on time!
Fortunately, a good friend of Erskine's, Levi Wilson, stopped by to see if I needed any help. I told him just get me to the church on time please!
We sped down Village Road in Levi's beat up old car, along the Eastern Road, with me in full bridal attire, brown paper packages in the back and Levi wearing an old straw hat! Bystanders stood on the side of the road, staring at the spectacle, aghast!
I also have a photo of me picking up my skirts and running into the church! Luckily, I got there in time!
It was a very hot day and there was no air conditioning in the church. Erskine passed his crisp white handkerchief around between him, the priest and best man/best friend George Cartwright, to wipe their brows! I had just had the front of my long hair cut into bangs - big mistake!
But It was a lovely wedding with special guests from out of town - my mother, grandmother and Erskine's parents in attendance. It wasn't even dampened by the sight of the tardy limousine driver waving his fist at us as we exited the church, claiming we had told him the wrong time for my pick up!
Afterwards we drove down Bay Street in a motorcade with horns blaring, heading to the Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre for the Reception. That evening we would be driven to the airport for our honeymoon flight to Jamaica, with a first-class upgrade courtesy of British Airways employee and friend of Erskine's, Jerome Darville.
Look out for the final (eighth) episode of our series "Secrets to a Successful Relationship" (tiktok and youtube - youngheartsforever)! For the seven previous episodes - Part One (How we met); Part Two (How we got serious); Part Three (How we got more serious); Part Four (The Engagement); Part Five (The Wedding Preparation); Part Six (The Wedding); and Part Seven (The Honeymoon), look for the red rose on the videos!
Fay Knowles reminisces about the Dolphin Hotel, the first place she stayed in when she arrived in Nassau, Bahamas, in 1965.
She arrived in Nassau in the dark of the night after travelling from Toronto, Canada, where she had been working, down to Miami on a Greyhound coach and flying across to Nassau.
She sat at the hotel bar, feeling very much the world traveller, then retired to her hotel room, where she was disappointed to hear the BBC news on the radio! She had thought she was in a foreign country.
The next morning she pulled back the drapes and when she saw the bright sunny day, palm trees and white beach across the road, and heard the babble of voices from locals, she realized she really was in a foreign country!
Operating during the mid-20th century, the original Nassau Dolphin Hotel was a popular beach-facing resort located on the corner of Nassau Street and West Bay Street.
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#oldNassauHotels
#downtownNassauBahamas
