Day #2 - Sep 3rd. Our next stop would be St. John's Church. St. John's Parish Church is the first church of St. John that is presumed to have been a simple wooden building, but its date is unknown. The parish along with St. George, was carved out of St.Michael in 1640-1641. But successive churches were badly damaged by the hurricane of 1675, the Great Hurricane of 1780, and finally destroyed by the Great Barbados hurricane of 1831. The present church building (the fifth) was built is 1836, and the chancel added in 1876. It is the prototype of the restrained [View Full Entry]

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Day #2 - Sep 3rd I can't say enough words to describe Bathsheba, it's a drive that you personally have to take. The giant rocks seemed to have grabbed my attention. If only our driver would've stopped there for a few minutes for even more grander picture taking. Our next stop was at Andromeda Gardens which are located in Bathsheba. There, we spent over an hour. It's a well worthwhile stop, especially for those who are plant and flower lovers. One could almost say that these gardens are "chained" to rock. The gardens were started in 1954 by Iris Bannochie. The [View Full Entry]

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