After all the travelling from yesterday, today was a
really good day as we were just able to relax, not worry about anything and
just enjoy our surroundings.
Wintery view from our window in the morning. Looking over the front of the Inn
The best thing about the Inn as that
breakfast is included and it's not just any breakfast, Nancy provides a special three course home cooked breakfast. It starts
at 8:30am which is a nice time, not too early.We came down and got a nice seat
by the window. By now the weather had clouded over and it was still very cold, so it had actually begun to snow very gently, Kathryn calls it Movie-snow.
Breakfast room
Mike bought us coffee to start with and the
first course was a cinnamon spice scone. We had warmed maple
leaf syrup to go with it and it was just so delicious. The second course was a
fruit course with pineapple and raspberry (no photo!) and finally we had some polish pancakes with blueberries filling, and maple cured bacon. This was a great start
to the day.
3 course breakfast. Cinnamon scone (top left), mug of coffee (top right) and polish pancakes (below)
We got ready, and decided to go down and explore the
local town of Woodstock, that we had briefly driven through on our way to
Barnard. The roads were very quiet, and we found the town green that had lots of
parking around it that didn't require any parallel parking! There was a coin operated metre for the parking which I hadn't seen before.
Parking meter
Town green in Woostock
We walked around the green and down the
high street to find somewhere to go for lunch. We popped into the post office to get
some stamps, and went into a bar/café on the corner. It was still really cold,
but the sun was briefly coming out. We had chilli and nachos which was delicious,
with melted cheese on top. This was perfect to warm us up.
View from bridge over river in middle of Woodstock
Post office (left) and High Street (right) in Woodstock
Bentley's Restaurant exterior (left) and delicious, warming Chilli (right)
Once we were finished, we headed across the
road to a general store that had loads of interesting things. It was 120 years
old apparently, it had loads of different sections with everything you could
imagine. We bought a few souvenirs as gifts to bring back. I'm not sure why I didn't take a photos. There was a noticeboard just alongside it.
Noticeboard with time on left dial and temperature on right dial
By the time we got back to the car, the
meter had just about expired. We drove to a nearby Farmers' Market and had
another browse, but didn’t buy anything this time. We got back to the Inn about
2pm. I had asked Nancy in the morning about whether there were any trails
we could walk. As they had their own dog, called Beckett, Nancy said she’d be walking
her this afternoon and we could join her.
View of front of the Inn
It was really cold, but once we were
walking it wasn’t too bad, just my toes that I couldn’t feel! There are snowmobile trails all around the area that cross into nearby states and so we walked
along one into the woods. Nancy said they are groomed in winter, but without the snow, it
was quite difficult to see where they were so it was good to have a guide.
Nancy told us about themselves and how to came to run the inn. It was a lovely
walk as the sun was out now, and Beckett was running around having a great
time. She was really careful that me and Kathryn didn’t stray too far from the pack. Unfortunately due to the amount of trees there wasn’t really much of a view for us to look at, even
though we walked to the local high point. We just turned around and came
straight back.
View of snowmobile trial we were walking along, Beckett and Nancy can be seen on the right!
View of woods
When we got back we had a hot drink to warm ourselves up. We
had a couple hours to wait before our reservation and the restaurant so
we just relaxed in our room. We went to eat at 5pm, this time we both had the
burger which I have to admit may have been the best burger I’ve ever eaten. We had
this lovely woman serving us this time that was really interesting to hear about
where we came from and our journey.
Front of Barnard Inn/Max's Tavern (Above). Specials board (lower left) and delicious hamburger (lower right)
It was now really cold, and the car park outside the Tavern was totally frozen over, but amazingly the car was still ok to drive. I took a quick photo as we left, but you really didn't want to stay outside for too long. When we got back, we did pretty much the same thing as the previous evening. Kathryn found this programme called Tanked on Animal Planet, which is a bit like pimp my
ride but with fish tanks that was really interesting to watch.
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