Field trip to St. Barts
Report #22: Part VI
December 31, 1999
We took a field trip to the island of St Barts (between Hurricane's
Jose and Lenny), but arrived on a French public holiday (Nov 11).
Since not much was open, we drove around looking at architecture
and eating!
One of our stops was the Le Toiny resort, famous for
its open bedrooms (only walls on 3 sides). We didn't see a
room, but we did get a lot of ideas from the pool area.
We are going to have a pool on our site and our thinking of
tiling it like this one.
This pool has a vanishing edge and a waterfall. We won't
be attempting that.
Notice the nice decks and the shaded sitting pavillions
in the background. We want to have a pavillion like
that off our pool. Here is a closeup view:
You can see more on the Le Toiny web site, since at this
point they asked us to stop taking pictures (our digital camera
must have been aimed at the open-sided bedrooms).
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Mary Ann Green