{"id":27312,"date":"2012-10-24T09:08:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T13:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=27312"},"modified":"2012-10-24T09:08:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T13:08:27","slug":"the-beatles-the-bahamas-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/10\/the-beatles-the-bahamas-and-me","title":{"rendered":"The Beatles, The Bahamas And Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sandal's
Sandals Resort, Nassau, The Bahamas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If there’s any connection between myself and those lovable mop-haired lads from Liverpool, it’s pasty white skin resulting from an upbringing in cold, rainy northlands.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it’s a biological influence that often turns tropical sun, surf and sand into a torturous experience, at least with an SPF less than 400.<\/p>\n

Yet once the last strips of burnt skin have peeled away, the allure of these places inevitably regains enough strength to pull me back again, as it did a few weeks ago to the Bahamas.<\/p>\n

The Beatles felt the same way when preparing for Help!, their follow-up film to A Hard Day’s Night. As Paul admitted in the Beatles Anthology, “We started saying, ‘Well, we’ve never been to the Bahamas, could you write that in?'” They did, as a hiding place for Ringo, who was being pursued by an exotic eastern cult determined to sacrifice him to the goddess Kaili.<\/p>\n

Undoubtedly, Nassau looks much different than when the Beatles landed in February 1965. On the way to Sandals Resort, my driver pointed out the new highways, ports for cruise ships and a Chinese-backed, 1,000-acre resort currently under construction called Baha Mar.<\/p>\n

Sandals has also much changed since the Beatles stayed there…<\/p>\n

Follow the link below to read Mike Dunphy’s entire article.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Returning home after 10 years abroad, recovering expat Mike Dunphy now gets his travel fix in 800-word portions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[44,22,418,33],"class_list":["post-27312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-history","tag-music","tag-sandals","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}