Mariiana and I love to travel. In fact she moved to the U.S. all the way from Bulgaria. We hope to share some of our favorite destinations, hotels, bars and even pools from the around the world with you.
Our most recent vacation took us to the mega-resort-casino-water-park known as Atlantis in the Bahamas. As much as we enjoyed our time at the resort, we’re going to start this journey as we do on most trips, at the local watering hole.
It was our second night at Atlantis and we were ready to escape to a true local joint. We had quickly realized much of Paradise Island was taken up by the resort and it might be hard to find something that met our requirements.
But we did. Just a couple of blocks from our timeshare, past Margaritaville (tourist trap), down a dark street, past what looked like a large oil drum, past the long-since used swimming pool and to the waters edge was the Green Parrot.
Little more than a roof and a bar. The Green Parrot has about 25 large barely movable wooden barstools and green neon lighting along the roof line. Drinks were cheaper than you could find anywhere within Atlantis (though still a bit pricey) and the food was good.
Our first visit was cut short as the generator ran out of gas flooding the bar with darkness. This didn’t stop most patrons from sticking around for another round, including us.
Yes, the bar quickly became our home away from home.
It took us a couple of tries but we became fast friends with Green Parrot regular Kevin and the happy hour expat crew. Becoming regulars ourselves lead us to taking a trip to the historic Greycliff Hotel & Restaurant and prompted an offer to take a boat out to Rose Island, if we were ever to come back as the bar on Rose Island was seriously damaged during the hurricane a week earlier. We even shared in birthday cake as Kevin led a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday” from atop a, thankfully, strong and stable barstool.
If we make it back to Atlantis we’ll definitely hit the pools and enjoy the sun, but we’ll spend our evenings at the Green Parrot.
