Well, the end draws near! It all goes so quickly. 😔

It sounds like the weather at home is ‘on the turn’, so I expect it will be raining when we land! 🌧️ 🛬

I can’t remember if I told you, that there’s a good chance our plane will be piloted by a guy Si knows from our gym. Our very own pilot, oh my!! That’s what you call service! 😂 ✈️

We had another fabulous meal last night in The View restaurant at the Inn. We had one less course each but still couldn’t eat everything. Si had the risotto fritters followed by sea bass and I started with the pate and the rice fritters. To finish, Si had the vanilla creme brulee and for me, the Lemon Budino made up of shortbead cookie, fresh strawberry, strawberry coulis and strawberry dust. Plus, I had my usual, Amaretto Sour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There was a small incident at the end of our meal that we felt bound to complain about last night and again this morning. 🙄

A party of six women arrived celebrating Mother’s Day, which just  happens to be tomorrow, two were from Cosmopolitan magazine and separately, a bachelor party of 10. We didn’t hear a peep out of the men but my goodness, the women! Well, in the end, we were having to raise our voices to hear each other. 😔

As you can imagine, I was rather annoyed and as we left I was giving long-hard stares at them and wanted to say something but Si was pushing me out by my elbows before I could voice my opinion! 🤬

We told our waitress and the maître d’ that we’d had quieter meals at a McDonald’s! Our complaint made its way to the Restaurant Manager and this morning he came to apologise and said our breakfast would be complimentary.

Such a shame on our last evening! 😒

I completed the review card in our room too, saying that if noisy children are not welcome then the same should apply to loud parties too! It’s quite a large restaurant so they could easily have been sat away from people trying to enjoy their meals in peace.

After breakfast, we said farewell to the couple from New Jersey, who it so happens have friends in Dorset and also learnt that the young man on reception has a sister living in Leeds! It’s such a small world. Then we set off to Boston for our flight home tomorrow. ✈️

Our five-hour journey sadly took an extra ninety minutes due to road works and as we got closer to Boston, the traffic came to a standstill. Margaret, our sat-nav, told us there had been an accident but when we eventually reached the problem, it was just three lanes merging into two! 🤷‍♀️

I think that Margaret was having an off day today. She got a couple of things wrong and at one point disappeared altogether and we were left driving blind, so to speak! She needs a good talking too! 😒

We put our suitcases into our hotel room and then drove the car over to Hertz to return it and also speak to a manager about all the problems we’ve had on this trip.

We were fortunate to speak to a very lovely guy, Jason, who took everything on board, was very sympathetic and assured us he would do everything he can to resolve things to our satisfaction. I was pleased that I’d taken the time to write everything down and had saved the pages to my mobile because I was able to Airdrop everything to him, so he has all the details and copies of paperwork to hand.

Poor guy’s only been in the job a week, so he will take it to the next level of management for a conclusion. We felt reassured after speaking to him. He gave us his mobile number too, so that was encouraging also. We’ve requested a full refund so, fingers crossed, it’s all sorted out quickly.

We were pleased to get back to the hotel. We have a lovely corner room with a great view. We are in a Hilton and as I’m a member, they emailed and asked me to choose which room we would like. They also use digital keys so there’s no queuing to check-in. It’s all done via their app and the key is sent to my mobile so we just walk in to the hotel and straight up to our room. 👏

Tonight, as we were feeling rather weary after the long drive, we had a quick dinner here in the hotel at Connolly’s Publik (yes, that’s how it’s spelt) House. I had the Figgy Pie pizza, it was fabulous and Si went for clam chowder and fish tacos. Of course, I had my usual Amaretto Sour! I think I’m becoming addicted, I’ve had a few on this holiday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It will be cold pizza for breakfast tomorrow me thinks as there was plenty left. We love cold pizza!

Our flight tomorrow is not until 11.05 p.m. It was changed from a more reasonable time, so it will be a long day. Luckily, we have a late check-out of 6.00 pm and there’s a walk-way from the hotel to the terminal, so that should be quite straight forward. We received emails from Virgin Atlantic asking us to choose our food options on board. Who on earth would want to be eating at 11.00 pm and then going to sleep! Not me, that’s for sure! 😒

See you tomorrow!