Katharina K
We arrived it NorthBend for the last 3 nights of our honeymoon at the end of a most memorable road trip through the "confederate states". We couldn't have chosen better. The house of a confederate officer through which passed the union general Sherman, steeped in history and the paradoxes of this part of the US summed up all our experiences. Ridgely, our host, has spent all her life since marrying the owner in this extraordinary property; she is a graceful, charitable, good-humoured, cultivated elderly lady. They don't make them like that anymore. She takes life as it comes and cares for her paying guests as if they were old friends; we are treated to her own china and silver; can use her kitchen, roam the house at will, use her golf cart to tour the property and converse with her on the history of the house, her family and all sorts of other subjects. On a more trivial note: It was one of the few houses we stayed in where the owners had not destroyed the original natural ventilation of the house by putting in powerful air-conditioning that made opening the windows impossible as if our forebears had had no clue on how to keep a house reasonably cool in summer, what a bliss. Long may it last.