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George Town

Category: Towns
Location: Eleuthera and the Exumas

Fodor's Review:

Although George Town is the island's hive of activity, it's still on the no-need-for-a-traffic-light scale. The most imposing structure here is in the town center—the white-pillared, sandy pink, colonial-style Government Administration Building, modeled on Nassau's Government House and containing the commissioner's office, police headquarters, courts, and a jail. Atop a hill across from the government building is the whitewashed St. Andrew's Anglican Church, originally built around 1802 and renovated in 1991. Behind the church is the small, sea-fed Lake Victoria. A leisurely stroll around town will take you past a straw market and a few shops. You can buy fruit and vegetables and bargain with fishermen for some of the day's catch at the Government Dock, where the mail boat comes in. The wharf is close to Regatta Point (242/336-2206), an attractive guesthouse named after the annual Family Islands Regatta that curls around Kidd Cove, where the 18th-century pirate Captain Kidd supposedly tied up.

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