Bermuda Journey EPISODE 3 in 4K - 2017 Island Tour FROM END-TO-END in a day 

You're most welcome. The music used in this video is for the most part at least 52 years old. It may well have been the version you heard those long years ago. Glad you liked it.

Hello We just got back from Bermuda. Check out our travel vlogs. It’s a awesome island ❤️🏝👍

Are you perchance from Salt Kettle and owned a Harley?

@@NorthernSongsCWX Yep, you got him, Aceboy Abercromby The Great!!

I live in Vermont, love to visit Bermuda. In 3 weeks, will be going there for the first time in 3 years--can hardly wait! This fantastic video has me dreaming Bermuda. Thanks, Exploding House Films❣

Phillip. We just got back Check out our videos from your lovely Island Thanks for watching ❤️🏝🙏

I’m very pleased you like it. My driver and I are bracing ourselves to do it again with a better set of cameras. We will see. For my family and friends the music is the soundtrack of our summers. The original mix was assembled for nighttime barbecue parties. Glad to share it.

@@NorthernSongsCWX I am visiting the island later next week, and cant wait! where do the locals eat?

@@dc7035 for a good diner meal go to Specialty Inn . Munchies in St.George and a couple of seafood restaurants in Dockyard! Sorry, I don’t go to restaurants any more.

The Beach restaurant on Front St. And others further down

I'm glad you have happy memories of Bermuda. Bermuda is not quite so English, I would say British, as it once was but has evolved a sense of its own style with perhaps more of a nod to the islands far away to the south in the Caribbean (which we are not). The local traditions including the roast turkeys are stronger than ever. Come back someday.

Thank you Robert. Please come back. Bermuda is still beautiful and welcoming.

Robert. We just got back Check out our travel vlogs We did the whole island Thanks for watching 🤫👍

Yes. We met a couple of times introduced by your cousin and my (then) good friend Nancy from across the road from you. Nancy and I were close for many years. I also had some small business dealings with your wife Julie who worked at PW's. Millwood was very beautiful and elegant and probably still is. One day I noticed they'd built another house in the grounds but I expect you knew that. Thanks for liking the video which took easily 100 hours to edit. One section was filmed nine times and that meant nine sunny early Sunday mornings so that the traffic was lighter than workdays. Now, with camera speed modifications and effective gimbals it'd be a lot more manageable. If I filmed a kitten playing with a ball of yarn I could get 10X the views in a month!

These conversations between you two make this even more interesting. Feel like I know real Bermudians, not just the few I meet when there. Philip, in what part of Vermont do you live? We are sugarmakers (maple syrup) in Hartland, a small town near Woodstock and White River Junction. I am so excited to be cruising once again to Bermuda--only 3 weeks away.

Dr AWSOME 👍 check out our videos on Bermuda We loved it. We used a mini elec car from end to end. Can’t believe you walked it Wow 😯

At last! I've been waiting for years for someone to ask me that question. The answer is that I built a square rig made out of one inch schedule 80 plastic pipes and professional suction cups which mounted on the roof of my car over the sunroof which in profile looked a bit like the outline of a dog and so we called it the black dog. The tall front piece rose up to about 8' and terminated in a metal go pro mount. The plastic ones weren't strong enough. On top of that mount I attached a Feiyu Tech gimble handle topped by a GoPro 7 (whatever the latest one was anyway) I controlled and monitored the camera from down below in the car by Bluetooth to an iPhone and I aimed, tilted and rotated the camera by a tiny Feiyu Tech Bluetooth toggle remote. It was a busy two handed operation and this video took 9 weeks to 'film'. Once in the early days we were driving along the road to Ferry reach staring at the phone screen in my hand when I noticed to my dismay that the Belco wires had sagged to the height of the camera and below. Quick slamming of brakes. A cop on Boaz Island stopped us mid video and strained mightily to find something to book us on but reluctantly had to let us go on our way. Thanks for asking.

@@NorthernSongsCWX Brilliant, great ingenuity. 9 weeks to film wow. You deserve so many more views. Anyway you have made an old expat very happy.

Oh yes they are functional and an architectural feature too. We mostly burn artificial logs or imported kindling. Bermuda is officially the most expensive country in the world. Bermuda is also sub tropical and gets cool in the first four months of the year and just about perfect the rest of the time. Snow has never been seen but there's an 1800 (or so) story that says one morning to everyones consternation standing fresh water formed an icy skin until the sun came up.

Thank you for the kind words which are much appreciated. The music for this video comes from a pool of OLD calypso music I've been accumulating in fits and starts since 1982. I've been listening to this music since 1960. We have a couple of versions of this song, one dating from 1955, but this version is called That's The Place For Me by Hubert Smith. It might by Hubert Smith and The Coral Islanders - that seems familiar somehow. In one other video I did one of the Talbot Family contacted me to correct me on which Talbot it was that did the lead singing! This video was originally conceived as a backgroundl soundtrack to be played during summer barbecue evenings. I'm glad you like it.

The Song is The Diddley Bops by The Merrymen a very prominent band ...in Barbados. In about 1965 they came to Bermuda at the invitation of Eddie DeMello a Bermudian music entrepeneur and recorded an album soon after which had some wonderful songs often re hashed and retitled from earlier hits back home but classics of my youth just the same. The lead singer is Emile Straker. Look on The Merrymen site. They were a big band and should have a site. The Bermuda album was their only one here and was probably them being a bit traitorous to Barbados. The album was on Edmar records and although Eddie is dead his shop is still open and is called The Music Box on Reid Street in the City of Hamilton. It is run by two sisters by the memorable name of Escolastica. They are on Facebook and their telephone number is +1 441-295-4839. I love that song. BTW thanks for liking the video if I told you how many hours went into it with editing and arguing with RU-vid you wouldn't believe me.

Thank you for your thoughtful and informative reply! I can imagine the amount of time and effort you put into this video just based on how attentive you are to those of us who have contacted you through the comments. Thanks again! I appreciate the time you've taken. Best wishes!

The Song is Beautiful Bermuda by The Merrymen a very prominent band ...in Barbados. In about 1965 they came to Bermuda at the invitation of Eddie DeMello a Bermudian music entrepeneur and recorded an album soon after which had some wonderful songs often re hashed and retitled from earlier hits back home but classics of my youth just the same. The singer is Emile Straker.

@@NorthernSongsCWX thankyou so much

Sorry not to get back to you sooner but at least I have the answer! The song is called Autumn in Bermuda by Hubert Smith and his Calypso Band. You might be able to get the LP or CD at facebook.com/themusicboxbermuda/ They are very knowledgeable about these old time records. I bought this LP 41 years ago and sadly Hubert went to his reward 22 years ago.

@@NorthernSongsCWX Thank you!

that was quick!

Since Bermuda is much thinner than broad we don't think in terms of getting 'across it' the title refers to driving from one end at dawn to the other end at sunset as if in fact they both took place in the same day. In fact the filming took many attempts to complete requiring perfect weather. One other video we shot about a trip along one road of about eight miles in length took nine different attempts over many weeks to perfect . That's why we only put out one of these every couple of years.

Oh ok

It’s a wonderful place

Dave’s. We did the whole island in a mini elec car Check out our videos and thanks. 👍❤️🏝