I highly recommend it! Driving down the drive you are dwarfed by the huge Mahogony Trees lining the drive. You receive a fantastic booklet and map of the house and grounds which of course was snapped up by 9 year old who loves to be "tour guide Barbie"! We made our way around the front of the house and gardens first and found some awsome coloured flowers, a local resident and the "out houses".
The House
Mangoes!
This Chair is as old as South Africa dating back to the 1600's!
The house was interesting but you are only allowed to stay downstairs, a pity as I would have loved to have shown the children how people slept.
We watched a movie dating back to 1904 of an English man arriving in Barbados and our 9 year old found it really interesting. Back then they arrived by boat which took 3 weeks from South Hampton to Bridgetown and then they would have to be lifted down to the boat that would row them to the port. Everyone wore hats as it was considered very impolite not too! The movie also showed the plantation and how sugar cane used to be crushed and then boiled to form the molasses. On our journey around the plantation the girls even got to sample some, they were not impressed! Us adults on the other hand got to sample some fine rum and bought the beautifully engraved bottle which is numbered. Honestly you buy it more for the bottle with the engraving and mahogany stopper than you do for the rum!
It was however a great morning out for the family and I highly recommend it!
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