Almost a year ago now Michael and I won a voucher for a night away at a kinda local Bed & Breakfast. With the expiry date looming we finally arranged to drop the kids with the grandparents and have a night to ourselves, "woohoo!", right? Not "woohoo" it turns out, 8 days before, I had to put Micheal on an airplane to Australia unsure of when he'd be back (but that's a story for another day). As each day passed it seemed to be less and less likely that he'd be home in time. As disappointed as I was that I wouldn't be getting my romantic night with my man and unable to push out the booking, I took full advantage to have some quality time with my daughter and made it a "girls trip" instead.
We set off Friday afternoon and upon arrival, saw it was everything I'd hoped for!
A gorgeous stone cottage set in a beautiful garden full of spring flowers. Just over the boundary the paddocks were full of lambs, some only a few days old.
We checked in and as we were being showed to our room my daughter spotted a lonely duckling just sitting amongst the grass. After a long search for his mum, the darling wee thing soon became her afternoon entrainment. He was kept in a box by the fire in the restaurant until a kind local farmer came to collect him and promised to raise him until he was old enough to live on the pond on his land.
We sat for dinner by the fire at 6pm and were most delighted at the yummy looking menu. For mains, I had a sautéed mushroom and Stilton cheese tart with Apple and walnut salad and my daughter had some quality home made fish and chips off of the kids menu. For dessert, we shared a flourless chocolate cake which had the most incredible melt in the mouth texture. I'm going to have to find a similar recipe to try myself. I had full intention to take some snaps of my meals but every time one arrived I was obviously so keen to tuck in that I totally forgot.
The next morning we woke to the surprise of spring snow. As I sat at the breakfast table in front of the fire watching the snow out of the window, I wished again that I could have shared this trip with my partner. There's just something so romantic about the the way snow falls.
I loved the relaxed, romantic atmosphere so much I'm already planning to go again. I'm thinking over the Christmas break when we can sit in the evening sunshine and enjoy a glass of wine.
Cheers to that thought!
If your ever in the area and think this is a place you'd appreciate,
then you can find the website here.
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