It was a brief mention, but the other day I posted about The Old Vicarage, the B&B we stayed at in Warwickshire. I really should have said more because it was quite fabulous.
I was
being accurate when I said it might be the best B&B we’ve stayed at in the UK.
It’s in a lovely village, an amazing old building with warm rooms, interesting grounds, and - most of all - great people running it.
David and Judith Adams obviously take a lot of care in their business, but are also just genuinely nice folks. They even got
our breakfast spot-on. We talked about them the whole way home in the car.
If anyone, British or visiting from abroad, wants to splash out a bit on a luxurious
yet welcoming B&B in the Midlands, I’ve found no place better than this one.
In Life
of the Wife, Katie wrote a year after her visit, naming her top 10 memory:
Soaking
up a warm summer day sitting in the garden at the Old Vicarage in Priors Marston (Warwickshire) with Hubble and having a Pimm's
& lemonade
Jen and Derrick
in Just Life wrote about our Christmas House Party with three generations of their family
travelling from across England and the US.
Over
Christmas we travelled "across the pond" to spend time with Jen's family in England. As a change of pace, we
stayed in this lovely old vicarage in the TINY village of Priors Marston in Warwickshire. Once we finally found it (we had begin to think it was a magical
village that only appeared once every hundred years out of the fog), we settled in nicely.
We were treated as kings and queens! Three meals a day, home cooked, and we didn't have
to wash up afterwards :-) There was a lovely little room called "the snug" with a huge walk-in fireplace. And it was topped
off with David and Judith's sweet golden retriever, Poppy. The weather in England was warmer than here in Michigan, and we had the chance to enjoy a day at Warwick Castle as well as some nice walks in the village. We had two Christmas
trees in the house, one in the formal living room, and one in the snug.
We
kicked things off with Meg's graduation ceremony. Meg just completed her Ph.D.
But the trip had already been booked when her graduation date was moved to the week before Christmas. So, we all surprised
her with a mock ceremony. Everyone came with their academic robes, and we smuggled in new robes for Meg. There were speakers
and trustees and even music... and one very happy graduate!
A very nice tradition to have champagne before dinner on Christmas Eve. The men folk
were all nicely dressed up to have dinner before midnight
mass at the village church.
During
Christmas Day lunch, we were all decked out in our cracker hats (In England, it is quite popular to have Christmas crackers. You pull on both ends and it makes a loud popping
sound. Inside, you get a bad joke, a gift, and a hat to wear),
The
last evening, we celebrated Jen's grandma's birthday with a murder mystery dinner party [in the Boiler House]. We were
all aboard a cruise ship, sailing from England to New York, in October, 1928. The captain of the ship was murdered, and
we had to figure out who did it!
