POSTCARDS

 What with the weather changing back to the cooler temperatures again, it had me reflecting on last late summers trip to Barbados and Martinque. A few more snaps from the trip. It's great how pictures can bring the memories back so quick like it was yesterday. Now we are in the midst of finalizing the next location.... but in the meantime,..

St Nicholas Abbey is located in Saint Peter, Barbados and today is a plantation house, museum and rum distillery...very good rum too I might add. Colonel Benjamin Berringer built the house in 1658, and this house is one of only three genuine Jacobean mansions left in the Western Hemisphere. St Nicholas Abbey has no church connection and has always been a sugarcane and rum plantation house. Love the style of the place .

The Hotel Ville in Bridgetown.

A window grate in Bridgetown

The St Louis Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in Martinique. It was built in the late 19th century in the Romanesque Revival style and serves as the cathedral of the Roman catholic Archdiocese of Fort -de-France. The construction of the original cathedral began in the mid-17th century, and it opened in 1657. Due to several fires, and earthquakes and or natural disasters, that have hit Fort-de-France over the years, the current structure dates only to 1895.

Ain't traveling grand? 

Any big travel plans coming up for any of you?