Littlecote House.

Littlecote House is an old Elizabethan house and part is open to the public as well as being a hotel.

The smaller dining room.

These keys to the original doors are about 24 inches long.

On guard in the hallway.

One of the lounges.

Anyone for chess?

The Roman mosaic in the grounds.

Remains of some of the ancient Roman buildings

Littlecote House Hotel March 2012

The Hotel.

The Gardens.

Beautiful warm Spring weather brought the flowers into bloom.


A deer made from moss.

"The Stumpery". A walk through a wooded part of the grounds. The moss deer can be seen in the background.

Sun through the Mist.

It had been low level mist most of the day but when the mist occasionally parted, it showed a completely cloud free sky above it. The sun appeared as a dull red glow which contrasted with the grey of the misty landscape.

Fort Lauderdale by Boat

After we had done the coach tour around Fort Lauderdale we got on the Carrie B and saw the beautiful houses on the intra coastal waterway. We were told which houses belonged to who, but there were so many that it was impossible to remember.



This yellow house and the following three photos of it belongs to an ex owner of the Miami Dolphins.

The handrail of the pagoda is painted with gold leaf. There is a hot tub on the middle floor.

There is a statue of dolphins immediately on the left of the bushes to show his connection with the Miami Dolphins.




This yacht belongs to Paul Allen who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates. He also owns Octopus which is the worlds largest privately owned yacht.





With all these huge and immensely expensive houses, we never saw a single person on the properties apart from gardeners. What a waste! I would love to enjoy sitting out in the good weather and enjoying my surroundings.

Fort Lauderdale.

After we got off the ship we took a tour around Fort Lauderdale by coach and then by boat.




Fort Lauderdale is celebrating it's 100th anniversary this year.

The coach took us past some of the multi million dollar houses in the area.


Then we stopped and saw some of the original houses in Old Fort Lauderdale.




On our way to the boat that was to take us around the intra coastal waterways, I was very surprised to see that the rail track came right down beside the road.


The Carrie B arriving to take us on our tour around Millionaire's Row and the port area. (to be shown in the next post.)

Leaving Antigua and sunsets.

It was just starting to get to sunset when we left Antigua. I was hoping for a good sunset.




This is the picture I have used for my header.

I like this picture for the ripples on the water as our ship moved slowly towards open water.



Not a spectacular sunset, but enough to give pretty pastel colours in the sky.



This was taken on a brighter exposure and it was really darker than it looks.