Teds tour!

Today I have been on an amazing tour with Ted. It started at 10.00 pm with other tourists who also wanted to experience this beautiful place from a higher view. Ted is the first barefooted, super kind guide I’ve had. First we all sat down in his white minibus and we drove in 20 minutes, than parked on the top of a hill in the middle of some bushes! This was the view!

Ted told us while walking that Barbados, as we could see, have a tropical climate. And I think people from colder climate like Norway can really tell when we have come to a tropical place! The air is so warm and heavy, but as we got a little and little higher the up the path I felt how much easier it was to breath! He also said that the rainy season was from June to October.  But I’m still hoping for maybe one day with rain because I just like being out in warm rain to. Especially in warm countries, it’s kind of cozy.

Next thing I know we have walked to Sunbury Plantation House.

This was a stunning building!

With Teds 20 years of experience he started telling us a little bit about it. This building was built around 1660 by Matthew Chapman. From then on the house has had up to seven different owners. Today it’s owned by Keith Melville and his wife. But they do not live there, but have made it to a museum like attraction for tourists. A little heroic fact Ted told was that in 1816 the owner was John Henry Barrow, and that he was in charge for the slave rebellion. For that Sunbury Plantation had to pay 4000 punds for rebellion damage and some of the members were put to death for their crime.

After walking inside all the rooms and seeing the gorges gardens we started on our way back and now I’m relaxing on the bed after the amazing trip.