The truth is that for me, driving around the UK is an adventure+challenge at the same time. I think, I will never get used to it. First, because of the change of mind it requires, having to stop to think when you are about to go out in a roundabout, which right not, left Leire, left. Those huge roundabouts, with traffic lights that offer so little visibility. Furthermore, my big problem is that I do not really calculate when I am driving in a straight line, I constantly get on the curb of the maple and feel the looks of distrust of your companion who can not help holding to the handle of the roof with sights « oh my god Leire »…becomes a small 2-3 day adventure.
Despite the nerves+excitement+even the laughts that this situation provoques me, I also have to confess that I love to enjoy the countryside offered by driving throught the county roads+of the British countryside. Those great houses with their stone walls, slate roofs+gardens full of flowers or the typical semi detached red brick houses that at the same time I go throught, my head goes inside and imagines the British Deco style of each of them.
In one of my stays, the hotel-pub Star Inn, “www.starinn1744.co.uk” , offered me exactly what I was looking for. A perfect combination between modernity, tradition+warmth. A small but endearing (lovely, cosy) country pub, located in the rural Leicestershire and whose owners only seek the comfort+wel lbeing of their customers throught its closeness+personal treatment.
The dining room showed the perfect English style that we have all imagined thanks to the upholstered Chester armchairs in warm velvet, square+floralin garnet+boilercolor, classic Chester sofas which so well represent the elegance+modernity thanks to that padded appearance of its buttons+covered with red leather, walls full of photos with identical black frames+industrial-style mirrors that contrast with the sobriety of the rest of the room…that room that has been adapted to modern styles but at the same time keeps that essence so british, so sober, so elegant, so charming. It only can bring you back to the time of the kingdom of George II, 1744 year in which the hotel was built while I have a coffee by the fire+have a pleasant chat with the owner of the establishment.
This British decoration that we like +has inspired us so much to place the different Korners of our houses and that nothing further invites you to have a cup of tea with any member of the English royalty
Why not ?