When you start putting ideas on paper when you’re tired after a long drive, you forget. Anyway, we thought last night we should give an idea of accommodation and meals we’ve enjoyed other than those of the wedding.
First and foremost the ales have been lovely. While Ben is not an ale drinker, John loves having good stuff. The best was in the village of Thurloxton where we enjoyed Will’s Neck, locally produced, ale at the Maypole, a gastro-pub, where the owners Jo and James Lowe run a fine old place and support local industries in Somerset. We enjoyed fish and chips for lunch to go with the drink. Worth a visit, we noticed the sign and pulled off the main road into a lane to visit. It’s a sprawling place but a lovely bar.
Then dinner on Sunday at the Holiday Inn at Bristol Airport was surprisingly good. We weren’t very hungry, being still sated from the roast pig at Maunsel House, but we enjoyed butternut squash soup to start and then John had a rabbit terrine and Ben had crabcakes. We shared one glass of South African chenin blanc.
Monday in Ireland we had lunch at the Newgrange visitor center. This time Ben selected a series of salads and a lovely thick mushroom soup. John tasted a mushroom, leek and chicken pie, very light pastry, and lots of salad. In fact, he was overfaced and couldn’t finish the plateful.
We had had good coffee that morning, too, at the Soho coffee shop in Bristol airport, made according to Ben’s XX-dry skim (though it was part-skim) textured cappuccino.
John enjoyed a huge latte.
Last night here at Jacob’s Well BnB in Rathdrum we had lovely venison sausage for John and cod and chips for Ben. Good salad, a good cream of vegetable soup to start, and a fair bottle of Italian sangiovese del Rubicone.
And now breakfast, a full Irish break for John and porridge cooked overnight for Ben.
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