This morning we had an early start to the planned tours and I went to breakfast on my own - if you call breakfast with over 300 fellow passengers alone! Dale was tucked up in bed....
The scrambled eggs are really great but the Americans do have quite some difficulty coming up with a sauteed mushrooms and a grilled tomato. I have received a couple of versions of this request and while quite nice it is nothing like the Aussie breakfast style although I do love their bacon. Really thinly sliced, quickly grilled then baked. It is so crisp it shatters when you attempt to cut it. It is best eaten as finger food.
We had guided bus tour of Natchez and then onto Longwood Mansion, an unfinished plantation house but very impressive..
The scrambled eggs are really great but the Americans do have quite some difficulty coming up with a sauteed mushrooms and a grilled tomato. I have received a couple of versions of this request and while quite nice it is nothing like the Aussie breakfast style although I do love their bacon. Really thinly sliced, quickly grilled then baked. It is so crisp it shatters when you attempt to cut it. It is best eaten as finger food.
We had guided bus tour of Natchez and then onto Longwood Mansion, an unfinished plantation house but very impressive..
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| On the road to Longwood - Natchez Mansion, now a B&B |
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| On the top of the cliff - Natchez Mansion clings to the cliff above the Mississippi River. It is expected that this property will slip into the river in the near future.... |
Arriving at Longwood plantation -the house was designed in an Octagonal shape but
unfortunately with the advent of the Civil War and then the death of the
original owner, only the ground floor or basement was ever finished. The
original family all lived in the basement which sounds small but was actually
10,000 square feet. If the mansion had been finished it would have had 5 floors
making it a huge space. Also planned was an orchard and 14,000 bush rose
garden.
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| Inside Longwood Mansion - from second floor |
The building is now owned by the Garden Club and has a
historical building covenant on it so that it can never be altered (or finished).
In the afternoon we visited a Frogmore Cotton Plantation
which has been set up as a historical display but is also a working cotton
plantation with a modern Gin for separating the cotton balls from the seeds etc.
The Gin treats the cotton from many farms in the area without charge, keeping
the seed which they then sell to processors.
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| Recreated slave quarters |
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| Harvested cotton ready to be "ginned" |
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