Day 10, July 12th The Lantern House B&B in Eckington

Still BUZZING from the flight, I had to leave Steve (Boo Hoo) & Glastonbury on Friday afternoon,
so that I could drive just under 2 hours to reach the B&B I’d reserved for TWO NIGHTS,
so that I could be FRESH and PERKY when I attended the

I discovered this “Medieval Fayre” barely two or three DAYS before leaving on my trip!
And, by that time, all the Tewkesbury lodgings had been SOLD OUT. (Oh, surpriZe!)
But, after several phone calls (from Nebraska), and after hunting-and-pecking about on various websites,
I found the Lantern House, and thankfully secured a B&B bed in Eckington,
a sweet little country village, merely a 20 minute drive Northeast of Tewkesbury.

Somehow (jeeze!), I failed to take my own pic o’ the FRONT of the Lantern House. So, here is an ENLARGED version of a very, VERY itty bitty pic I found on some website. As you can SORT OF see, The Lantern House is a marvelously OLD (very well maintained) plain and simple – QUITE comfortable – two-story country village house.

Since this was my LAST STOP before going home, the “boot” of my rental car threw up in my room! LOL But, you STILL can see what a lovely and comfortable room this was, in spite of all my pre-packing mess! (I LUV how almost ALL of these B&B’s are from an ERA that didn’t have “built-in” closets!)

Somehow, I also FAILED to get a pic o’ my Fantabulous HOSTESS, Ann Parker! What an absolutely wonderful person! Ann is a single business woman with a grown son, who (like ALL B&B proprietors) werkz her BUNZ OFF running this wonderful Guest House. Yet, in spite of her workload, we spent two or three hours together … drinking wine and laughing and chatting together on her back patio …

drinking wine and laughing and chatting together on lawn chairs in her ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS back yard GARDEN … next to her POOL!

… drinking wine and laughing and chatting together, while admiring the THATCHED ROOF of her next-door neighbor’s house!

OH! I especially enjoyed meeting her KAT, “Macbeth!”
Can we say, “He looks just like Silvie!”? I think we can!

The next morning, Teddy & I got all decked-out in our Renaissance Attire, and then came down for breakfast before prancing off to the Fayre. A French couple and their THREE TEENAGE SONS (hubba-hubba times 3!!!) were having breakfast when Teddy & I emerged. Those French boyz seemed to TRULY enjoy Teddy! (Their parents seemed … confused!)

What a HOOT!

Go To the FIRST of DAY ELEVEN’s Pix Pages:
The TWEKESBURY Medieval Fayre!!!

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