Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
It was lovely. The weather was fine, just one day of rain. The house was delightful, walking excellent, scenery outstanding, locals friendly... my single gripe would be the paucity of quality, varied cooking ingredients. No Booths, no Waitrose, local butcher mediocre, you know the drill.

I even got to have dinner with Gaffer+, who send salaams to all. He is in fine form.
Surely experience teaches you to bring certain things with you? Similar to how I used go to deepest Connemara with the family, one would bring all relevant foodstuffs and alcohol.