Porter's House

The Barbados National Trust had an open house today of the Porter's Great Home.  I met Susan and her mother Trudy - and we went to visit this great home.  I really was not impressed with the house itself.   I was impressed with the gardens around the house, though.  It had a chapel and a swimming pool area which were both beautiful.  It also had a gazebo that was built high on a hill with many steps to walk up to get to it.  In the picture below are Trudy and I - you might can see the gazebo in the distance.  It was roped off for no one to climb up to it - but, I can only imagine what the view looked like from that gazebo, since it was so high up!

The traffic was terrible today around the island.  It makes me want to give up driving and just stay at home.  Very frustrating to just sit and sit in traffic that is not moving.  I heard two different people state that they believe the traffic problems were because of the early morning rain.  I, personally feel that the government should quickly intervene and fix this problem - otherwise, the island is going to find itself in a traffic gridlock.  

One final note on the Porter's House - it reminded me so much of the home that Gary and I remodeled on 23rd avenue in Meridian, MS - old home, first glance is awesome, but wouldn't want to live there!  :-)

PS -  A lot of these older homes (plantations) have the big, magnificent palm trees lining the driveways up to their dwelling place.  Absolutely beautiful/stunning in appearance.