Illya

"Martin Sewell" wrote in message
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    > On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 14:52:10 GMT, "briggl"
    > wrote:
    > >
    > >"Martin Sewell" wrote in message
    > >news:[email protected]...
    > >> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:30:59 -0500, "Fustanella"
    > >> wrote:
    > >>
    > >> >Hi again.
    > >> >
    > >> >Has anyone had experience with this B&B, right around the corner from
the
    > >> >antiquity? I'm about to book there and thought I'd check with the
massed
    > >> >minds here first. She's asked for a £20 traveler's check by post to
    > >reserve
    > >> >the room as she doesn't take credit-cards.
    > >> >
    > >> >Thanks, as always, for your help.
    > >>
    > >> Ask her for £20 worth of luncheon vouchers in advance, just in case
    > >> her greasy "home cooked" breakfast doesn't cut the mustard.
    > >>
    > >> When you leave, charge her another £20 for the advertising on Usenet.
    > >>
    > >> Cheers
    > >>
    > >> Martin
    > >
    > >You sound like a very bitter person!
    > Bitter, lager - I'll drink anything.
Bitter this and a bitter that y'know

Illya

"Fustanella" wrote in message
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    > Any pubs with a good view of the White Horse would > be appreciated as
well.

Theres
THE LITTEN TREE
17 Artillery Row
Victoria
London
SW1P 1RT
Tel: 020 7799 1620

It is best on a Wednesday, Midmonth say about the twelfth at 6 PM - ask for
Alistair

The guy with the white horse can usually be contacted by making enquiries
with one of the "beggars" outside the train station nearby, although I would
be careful as Scotland Yard is also nearby.

Illya

"Wobbly" wrote in message
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    > "Fustanella" wrote in message
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    > > > This group of morris dancers have a list & review of pubs in the area.
    > > > http://www.icknieldwaymorrismen.org....Pubs/pubs.html
    > >
    > > Thanks. I'll take the testimonials of locals any day.
    > Then might I suggest with all due deference, that you ask in a group LOCAL
    > to the area you wish to know about. Your distance from the UK may have
    > foreshortened your view of the distance between London and Stonehenge.
    > The reason you got (for this group) gently ribbed, is you have done the
    > equivalent of asking someone in a New York newsgroup about a small bar in
    > Atlanta Georgia. Judging by the bilious outbursts in this group by
    > countrymen, you would have received a far worse cyber-kicking there.
    > Cordially
    > wobbly

Hmm a touch of the old English metro-parochial xenophobia then wot.

Fustanella

Hi again.

Has anyone had experience with this B&B, right around the corner from the
antiquity? I'm about to book there and thought I'd check with the massed
minds here first. She's asked for a £20 traveler's check by post to reserve
the room as she doesn't take credit-cards.

Thanks, as always, for your help.

Martin Sewell

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:30:59 -0500, "Fustanella"
wrote:

    >Hi again.
    >Has anyone had experience with this B&B, right around the corner from the
    >antiquity? I'm about to book there and thought I'd check with the massed
    >minds here first. She's asked for a £20 traveler's check by post to reserve
    >the room as she doesn't take credit-cards.
    >Thanks, as always, for your help.

Ask her for £20 worth of luncheon vouchers in advance, just in case
her greasy "home cooked" breakfast doesn't cut the mustard.

When you leave, charge her another £20 for the advertising on Usenet.

Cheers

Martin

Seanie O'Kilfyle

"Martin Sewell" wrote in message
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    > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:30:59 -0500, "Fustanella"
    > wrote:
    > >Hi again.
    > >
    > >Has anyone had experience with this B&B, right around the corner from the
    > >antiquity? I'm about to book there and thought I'd check with the massed
    > >minds here first. She's asked for a £20 traveler's check by post to
reserve
    > >the room as she doesn't take credit-cards.
    > >
    > >Thanks, as always, for your help.
    > Ask her for £20 worth of luncheon vouchers in advance, just in case
    > her greasy "home cooked" breakfast doesn't cut the mustard.
    > When you leave, charge her another £20 for the advertising on Usenet.
    > Cheers
    > Martin

*LOL*

Izerntit

Briggl

"Martin Sewell" wrote in message
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    > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:30:59 -0500, "Fustanella"
    > wrote:
    > >Hi again.
    > >
    > >Has anyone had experience with this B&B, right around the corner from the
    > >antiquity? I'm about to book there and thought I'd check with the massed
    > >minds here first. She's asked for a £20 traveler's check by post to
reserve
    > >the room as she doesn't take credit-cards.
    > >
    > >Thanks, as always, for your help.
    > Ask her for £20 worth of luncheon vouchers in advance, just in case
    > her greasy "home cooked" breakfast doesn't cut the mustard.
    > When you leave, charge her another £20 for the advertising on Usenet.
    > Cheers
    > Martin

You sound like a very bitter person!

Martin Sewell

On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 14:52:10 GMT, "briggl"
wrote:

    >"Martin Sewell" wrote in message
    >news:[email protected]...
    >> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:30:59 -0500, "Fustanella"
    >> wrote:
    >> >Hi again.
    >> >
    >> >Has anyone had experience with this B&B, right around the corner from the
    >> >antiquity? I'm about to book there and thought I'd check with the massed
    >> >minds here first. She's asked for a £20 traveler's check by post to
    >reserve
    >> >the room as she doesn't take credit-cards.
    >> >
    >> >Thanks, as always, for your help.
    >> Ask her for £20 worth of luncheon vouchers in advance, just in case
    >> her greasy "home cooked" breakfast doesn't cut the mustard.
    >> When you leave, charge her another £20 for the advertising on Usenet.
    >> Cheers
    >> Martin
    >You sound like a very bitter person!

Bitter, lager - I'll drink anything.

Cheers

Martin

Fustanella

    > Ask her for £20 worth of luncheon vouchers in advance, just in case
    > her greasy "home cooked" breakfast doesn't cut the mustard.
    > When you leave, charge her another £20 for the advertising on Usenet.

I don't understand. Have you been there and had problems? For that matter, I
haven't seen her on Usenet, just her website.

Martin Sewell

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:09:08 -0500, "Fustanella"
wrote:

    >> Ask her for £20 worth of luncheon vouchers in advance, just in case
    >> her greasy "home cooked" breakfast doesn't cut the mustard.
    >> When you leave, charge her another £20 for the advertising on Usenet.
    >I don't understand. Have you been there and had problems? For that matter, I
    >haven't seen her on Usenet, just her website.

No, I've no intention of lining my stomach with her 6:00am
gut-wrenching fry up whilst suffering from a hangover and making
polite breakfast-time banter with the other (mostly American) guests
and listening to their fake sincerity and questions about the myth
that we call Stonehenge.

Why would I want to do that?

Cheers

Martin

Lanimal

In article ,
[email protected] says...
    > Hi again.
    >
    > Has anyone had experience with this B&B, right around the corner from the
    > antiquity? I'm about to book there and thought I'd check with the massed
    > minds here first. She's asked for a £20 traveler's check by post to reserve
    > the room as she doesn't take credit-cards.
    >
    > Thanks, as always, for your help.
    >
    >
    >
Can't help you with the B&B, but they mostly tend to be of a similar
standard. Nothing fantastic, but they're a roof over your head and if
you can stomach a fry up in the morning you'll be ok.

While you're around there, you should take a walk around Avebury Stone
Circle. (http://www.stonehenge-avebury.net/aburyinfo.html). I've always
preferred that to stonehenge myself. Try to take in West Kennet Long
Barrow as well, it's nearby. That's pretty impressive, and a bit scary
if the Satanists have been having one of their not infrequent parties
the night before....

Cheers

Pete

Martin Sewell

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:28:53 -0000, Lanimal
wrote:

    >In article ,
    >[email protected] says...
    >> Hi again.
    >>
    >> Has anyone had experience with this B&B, right around the corner from the
    >> antiquity? I'm about to book there and thought I'd check with the massed
    >> minds here first. She's asked for a £20 traveler's check by post to reserve
    >> the room as she doesn't take credit-cards.
    >>
    >> Thanks, as always, for your help.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >Can't help you with the B&B, but they mostly tend to be of a similar
    >standard. Nothing fantastic, but they're a roof over your head and if
    >you can stomach a fry up in the morning you'll be ok.
    >While you're around there, you should take a walk around Avebury Stone
    >Circle. (http://www.stonehenge-avebury.net/aburyinfo.html). I've always
    >preferred that to stonehenge myself. Try to take in West Kennet Long
    >Barrow as well, it's nearby. That's pretty impressive, and a bit scary
    >if the Satanists have been having one of their not infrequent parties
    >the night before....

While you're there, it's customary (and quite acceptable) to chip a
small piece of stone from one of the (rapidly shrinking) rocks. The
council have decided that they're an eyesore, and once they've eroded
to a manageable size, they shall be exported to the USA, thus
relieving Wiltshire of a plague of tartan trousers.

Cheers

Martin

Fustanella

    > No, I've no intention of lining my stomach with her 6:00am

Good for you. It's clear you don't like B&Bs in general. If you don't have
specifics about the place I've politely asked for information about, then
please start your own thread. Thank you.

Fustanella

    > standard. Nothing fantastic, but they're a roof over your head and if
    > you can stomach a fry up in the morning you'll be ok.

Yep, that'll do the trick for one night. We survied B&Bs in Eire quite well
last year, and enjoyed meeting fellow travelers and the hosts that way.

    > While you're around there, you should take a walk around Avebury Stone

We're enjoying Avebury and Uffington on the way back to London after
Stonehenge (we wrote ahead for early private access).

Some bits in or near Avebury I have notes on include:

The Keiller Museum
Devizes Museum
West Kennet Long Barrow
The Sanctuary
Silbury Hill
Windmill Hill
Swallowhead Spring

I'd welcome any insights you would provide - which should be seen, which can
be passed over. We'll have most of the day to enjoy the area as we should be
away from Stonehenge by half nine.

Any pubs with a good view of the White Horse would be appreciated as well.
The Fox & Hounds near the B4507 has been suggested, but other reports
indicate it's closed. We'll be there in mid-March fwiw.

Thank you very much.

Fustanella

    > While you're there, it's customary (and quite acceptable) to chip a

Wow, they don't get more intentionally unhelpful than you, do they? *plonk*