Car rentals in Bermuda?

My home country is Bermuda, but I reside in Valencia, Spain as a retiree and I love this place. I have recently returned to Spain from visiting family and friends in Bermuda, leaving them all as they run up to America's Cup races starting in just a couple of weeks.

The island will be overflowing with visitors as this is shaping up to be perhaps one of the very best AC events ever. However, if you are going to Bermuda for the first time you will be totally confused as you try to rent a car. Since the introduction of cars in Bermuda the island has never rented cars owing to the severe limitation of space on the roads. Instead you have been offered mopeds for rent, but you should have been an expert motorcycle rider. These little bikes can get you in a whole heap of trouble although the speed limit is 35kph.

I have never been happy about visitors on these bikes. It's bad enough that we drive on the left and our roads are even less wide than a King's sized bed and full of twists and turns. One of our visitors from New York braved the morning rush hour traffic. She passed Bermuda's long-term goodwill greeter,(the late) Johnnie Barnes who seemed to jump out at her yelling, "I LOVE YOU!" She replied "SAY WHAT?"

She went directly to the Royal Gazette daily newspaper and complained that some man yelled at me saying he loved me. What the hell is wrong with you people? I'm from New York. We don't love nobody. Damn near gave me a heart attack!

If you Google car rentals in Bermuda you are given a number of sites that talk about cheap Bermuda car rentals of six to eight dollars a day, only to finally tell you that Bermuda does not rent cars. What a disappointment, especially as that is no longer true. Bermuda started renting cars from this past week as this is America's Cup and how can you tell people who own all the money in the world that they can't at least rent a little electric car?

Well, that is what Bermuda has embarked upon but you can forget those $6 and $8 a day numbers. I'm not exactly sure what the daily rentals will set you back but the people going to Bermuda this time of the year won't even ask for the price.

So, since the advent of the motor car in 1947 Bermuda's driving experience will take a radical turn, There will be a lot of bikes up for sale at very cheap prices. Get 'em while they last!

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Eugene Carmichael