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Mistakes We Made When Planning Our Bermuda Trip
These are the practicalities you want to know about
Bermuda is special, and there were many things we loved about it. It is one of the places we want to go back to.
It would be only fair to share our mistakes along with all the amazing sides of Bermuda we discovered. Of course, these were our mistakes, and you might make your own. We were planning under a few constraints that involved four children and the July-August timeframe of the school summer break. So, what I wish we would have done differently?
1. We went in August
August is the beginning of the hurricane season. It’s not the worst month to go; however, the weather is unstable, and we certainly felt it.
This is why all the properties we looked at were cheaper in August than in July. Since our budget was tight and the market of larger rental properties for six or more people is always limited, we booked for August.
Luckily, there were no early hurricanes and no major weather events, but the volatility of the skies was omnipresent.
We had soft rains, heavy rains, downpours and even an approaching funnel cloud — every day. The sun would then come out, and we spent a fair amount of time at the beach, but there…
