Nearly the very first thing you see on the Pembroke Arms web site is ‘Funerals’.
Click on on it and there’s details about ‘After Funeral Receptions’, with a cheery reminder that the inn is simply ten to fifteen minutes away from the native crematorium.
Thank goodness there are extra upbeat the reason why you may wish to keep right here.
The Pembroke Arms is a good-looking outdated boozer in the course of the Wilton Property on the outskirts of Salisbury
Worth is considered one of them. I’m paying £75 for B&B on a Sunday night.
‘Roasting All Day’, says the signal outdoors this good-looking outdated boozer in the course of the Wilton Property on the outskirts of Salisbury.
There are 9 rooms. I’m meant to be in a small double, nevertheless it solely has a bathe and so I ask the well mannered younger man behind the bar if I can change.
He says that as a result of I’ve pre-paid it could be difficult.
‘What number of different rooms are taken this night?’ I ask.
‘None, really,’ he says.
‘Then slip me in a much bigger one with a shower. You received’t get in any bother.’
So he does — within the ‘Queen’s Bedchamber’, the place the toilet is embellished in pages from the June 1953 Coronation version of Queen journal.
Inviting: The B&B’s bar and restaurant areas are spacious and casual, with polished (some bashed) tables
Cleansing your tooth has by no means been extra diverting.
The images and textual content are duly deferential, however I just like the adverts. Asprey’s and the expensive Gleneagles Resort are there, so, too, are the Hillman Minx and Kia Ora fruit squash.
Downstairs, the bar and restaurant areas are spacious and casual, with correct polished (and a few bashed) tables.
I begin with marinated artichoke and sun-dried tomato (terrific), adopted by roast lamb (unexciting).
Stately: Mix staying on the Pembroke Arms with a go to to Wilton Home and its 14,000 surrounding acres
I ought to have had the rib-eye steak, with chips, grilled tomato, mushrooms and salad — all for £14.95.
Mix staying right here with a go to to Wilton Home, the place the energetic Earl of Pembroke and his household have injected new life into their stately residence, with 14,000 surrounding acres.
I like one of many breakfast choices: black pudding on fried bread with an egg on prime.
The meals police could be aghast, replete with warnings about an early go to to that crematorium.
