French doors on the front porch open onto a living room with a built-in punee, a day bed.
With its brick facade, rustic screened-in porch, open kitchen and wood-burning oven, you instantly feel at home in the inviting space.
There was an ice chest on the porch, open, jammed with green bottles of beer.
The spacious houses have two double bedrooms, open-plan kitchen-living-room, roof terraces front and back, and a porch opening onto shared gardens with tennis courts and a small pool.
A screened porch opens onto the half-acre grounds, which include a paver patio, expansive lawns and a gazebo.
These characters range from Colonel José Parrales Sonriente, otherwise known as the "man with the little mule", whose murder at the Cathedral Porch opens the novel, to a series of beggars, prisoners, minor officials, relatives, flatterers, barkeepers and prostitutes.
The porch opened to the river in a flight of wooden steps leading down to an octagonal gazebo pierced and supported by a large tree, overhanging the tumbling waters.
The Porch opens Sun., Nov. 15th at 5pm with its kick-off party (By the way, a great place to have a drink before the Patti Smith 7pm reading) and continues strong every night 'til 10pm, all through the week until closing day, Sun., Nov. 22nd.
"It's about covered porches, open windows, open doors.
Bee and Thistle Inn 100 Lyme Street Old Lyme (860) 434-1667 www.beeandthistleinn.com SATISFACTORY THE SPACE An 18th-century house with a center-hall plan, common rooms and glassed-in porches opening off either side of the hall, and sleeping accommodations upstairs.
One evening last June, just after the temple had closed, I joined the sitting meditation, the hour-long zazen, held on the porch and open to the public twice a week.
