Holiday!

For Christmas my mum booked a couple of nights for Mr K and me at one of her favourite places to stay - The Hoste Arms in Burnham Market. Today was the day!
We had planned to carry on from dropping Miss E off at climbing at 8am but they were having Academy tryouts today so there was no normal session and we didn’t have to drop her off until 11.20am.
And then someone (me) had been stupid enough to leave the walking boots in the hall so we had to go back for them.
Then we had to get a meal deal as it was too late for McDonald’s breakfast and petrol as all the toing and froing to Milton Keynes had meant we didn’t have enough to get to the cheap petrol station on the way.
Sigh.
So off we eventually set - at the crack of 12.30pm!!
The journey up flew by. It’s been so long since I did it, it was lovely to see the familiar scenery.
We got to the hotel just after 3pm and after seeing our lovely room we headed off to explore.
The Hoste is a seventeenth century coaching inn, all higgledy-piggledy nooks and crannies and different levels. Room 8 is where Nelson always stayed. His family were local and his father was rector of the local church between 1755 and 1802.
As usual Mr K rolled his eyes as I touched the door handle of the room and gushed on about how astounding it was that Nelson had once stood on that exact spot and opened that exact door.
I’ve also sat on Agatha Christie’s toilet; sat on a settle Shakespeare sat on; sat at Hemingway’s desk; and stood in the spot where Guy Fawkes hid after the gunpowder plot. It never fails to thrill me!
We sat in the lovely lounge for a couple of hours before dinner. Free tea and coffee, books, magazines, board games.
Dinner was amazing!! Roast chicken for me, beef for Mr K. With all the delicious trimmings.
We both ordered apple and quince crumble for pudding which sounded delicious. It was not. Weird gritty disgusting pastry lumps on top rather than crumble.
Because we’re greedy we are most of it - the fruit and ice cream were yummy
I checked the menu online later on and noticed the tiny ‘pb’ after the price. Plant based. Plant based crumble, I never would have ordered that!
That’s £19.50 I’ll be getting them to take off the bill tomorrow.
We had to be winched up to our bed which was enormous and very comfy.
Mr K bought me a tin from M&S for Christmas which projects stars, snowflakes, Santa’s sleigh and reindeers onto the walls and ceiling. He forgot to give it to me at Christmas so he bought it today as a surprise. It was so magical it made me want to cry!!!