Advantages: Great food, good service, location Disadvantages: Service a little too over the top and food a little cold
*Please note ? this is a review of the restaurant part of the hotel*
A few weeks ago Mr Tart and myself headed to his parents? for a family gathering. We were all going out for a posh meal on the Sunday and the French Horn was chosen as the location for the event.
LOCATION:
The French Horn is in Sonning-on-Thames. Sonning is not a big place and the restaurant is on the main road so you can?t miss it (sorry I can?t be more specific ? it doesn?t even give a road name on the website!). It?s not the easiest place to get to as the approaches are all through small, busy roads. There is plenty of parking in the French Horn?s car park opposite the restaurant. The restaurant?s location is what really makes it. It is right on the Thames with the gardens leading down to the river. We went on a beautiful sunny day and the setting ...
Advantages: History, Architecture and Culture Disadvantages: Lots of walking, steep hills and cobbled streets
We were planning a weekend break away but the first problem was where. I wanted somewhere with historical interest. David had always been fascinated in the culture of Prague. And so, Prague it was.
Knowing we only had limited time in the city, we wanted to ensure that we got as much as possible from the trip as we could. With this in mind, I set about researching the city and its points of interest using the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide to Prague and the many sites available on the Internet particularly (http://www.prague-tourist-information.com/).
We booked the flight and holiday for the cost of 300 pounds each. We could have paid less but we had specific requirements in mind for the trip. Czech Airlines ran a direct flight from Manchester which gave an arrival time of 10.30 a.m. thereby giving us almost a full two and a half days ...
Advantages: The other side of Europe: interesting, surprising, varying walks Disadvantages: Cycle tracks and hotel towels!
A friend had the idea that “one of those East European countries that used to be hard to visit” would be a good place to go walking. Stumbling across Czech Trails was an accident, the concepts of promotion and competition and business have yet to take hold in the former communist countries ~ something we were to discover throughout the trip.
Never have I visited a country with the degree of ignorance that I took into Czech. Events on the homefront had hindered usual levels of research. I knew where the country was; the ‘schoolboy’ bits of its history: Austro-Hungary, the defenestration, the Nazis, the Prague Spring, the Velvet Revolution but only in the vaguest terms; none of the language at all, and only the vaguest idea of the specific geography I was heading into.
The plan was a day and half in Prague ...
hiker 25.06.2004 (26.06.2004)
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