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Category: Guest Stories

Wooohooo!

Posted on January 17, 2017 (June 11, 2018) by Rachel Church

For the second year, we are so excited to be recipients of Booking.com’s Guest Review Awards!  Thank you to all of our fabulous guests for taking the time to share their thoughts on the House, their experience and this amazing place we live in! Thank you! […]

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Merci

Posted on February 4, 2016 (June 11, 2018) by Rachel Church

We had the choice in school to choose the foreign language we wanted to study.  I think there were just two choices – French or Spanish.  My mom encouraged my brothers to take French so I just fell in line and chose it too. We began our language studies when we were about 12-13 I […]

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Roar of the engines

Posted on May 15, 2015 (September 13, 2018) by Rachel Church

We had guests arriving last week who rented out the whole House for one night.  When I asked them what time they thought they’d arrive, they mentioned that they were on a ‘bike tour’ so would likely be late afternoon. I assumed that a ‘bike tour’ meant mountain biking…so when we were sitting having a wine […]

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Guest Stories

Posted on May 4, 2015 (September 13, 2018) by Rachel Church

We recently had a mid-week booking for two nights, for three couples.  I love it when we have a full House with guests that have travelled together, and was delighted to see them pull up in one car and welcome them. They requested pizzas one night, and we enjoyed lighting up the oven and sharing the […]

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Day Nineteen – emotions

Posted on March 25, 2015 (September 13, 2018) by Rachel Church

Moved To Tears Describe the last time you were moved to tears by something beautiful. I write often about how we feel that it is a great honor to share, even for just a small time, in the lives of our guests.  We get to witness their celebrations as many stay for birthdays, or weddings […]

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