Friday, June 22, 2007

The Old Post House


REPOSTED WITH PIC

England is literally covered in bed and breakfast guest houses. You can easily drive into any town, stop at the door of a B&B and ask if there's a vacancy. But being a Virgo, I really couldn't allow that - I needed to know where I was staying and when, so I booked all our B&Bs on the internet. In FEBRUARY.

So when we arrived in Salisbury, we proceeded to head to the otherside of the town. Our B&B, The Old Post House, was meant to be seven miles past Salisbury and five miles before Stone Henge (an asupicious location). This was true - but it took driving down a few country lanes to find where we were staying.

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The Old Post House is, in fact, in a village called Great Wishford. Not a village like Double Bay Village - I'm talking a real village with a few streets, flint and lime houses, a pub, a Post Office and a telephone box. The Old Post House B&B is literally the old post house - 350 years old. It was off the beaten track, and that was good. Paulene and Barry, our hosts were incredibly welcoming. As were their two doggies, their cat, and every bird in the vacinity.

Our room was super quiet. Our shower was the best we've had in Britain - perfect water temperature and excellent water pressure. Paulene cooked us a super English breakfast, complete with scrambled eggs laid by her friend's pet hen. We're sorry to have to move on from there. If you want to know more about the Old Post House B&B, go here:
http://www.theoldposthouse.co.uk/

1 comment:

Pauline said...

Take photos of yourselves in particularly "atmospheric" places... you never know what may reveal itself; be aware of icey-cold draughts and zones... take photos in these places!!!