The sun has finally decided to come out and stay out here in Dulcote with the weather set fair for the next few days. With all of our bed and breakfast suites and both of our holiday lets full (we are due to welcome our first guests to Park View tomorrow) we are all ready to enjoy this glorious weather. Temparatures are due to rise to 24 degrees on Sunday – residants of The White House can’t wait!
We have been extremely busy at The White House over the May Bank Holiday, welcoming lots of guests and also our daughter Mel and her partner Sam to celebrate our son Eddie’s 14th birthday.
The weather has been mixed but much better than the forecast with the sun shining for the majority of the weekend.
Despite the rain today, The Wells Lions organised another great traditional May Day Celebration in Wells Market place today with Maypole Dancing, Stalls, vintage cars and buses (one of which drove in a circit via Dulcote throughout the day), games, music and traditional dancing.
Yet another of those “I just can’t believe the bed and breakfast has been open for a full year” moments!
This weekend we are celebrating the first anniversary of opening The White House bed and breakfast.
We can’t believe this has come around so quickly and we are delighted to use this occasion to announce our new holiday let in the centre of Wells.
2 Park View is in a quiet and peaceful no through road in the centre of Wells and is in the same street as the property we stayed in for two weeks when we first came to live in Somerset.
It’s a beautiful quirky and intimate cottage and ideal to complete our offering to guests.
Take a look at http://www.thewhitehousedulcote.co.uk/the-white-house-in-wells-park-view/
We had such a lovely weekend at The White House after what originally looked to be a bit of a disappointment. Original plans to visit our friends in London and see the Rugby were dashed at the last minute as our friend was ill in bed with a very high temperature. Luckily all worked out ok and Miranda is now, thankfully, on the mend.
The sun was shining and we spent the weekend with our older daughter, Melanie, who had agreed to house sit for us while we were away. Our bed and breakfast guests were particularly lovely and on Saturday afternoon, after a trip to Wells marketplace, we all started the transformation of our kitchen garden into a nicer looking area.
Photos below and I’ll post more as the transformation continues….
Wells is famous for being the smallest City in England and now it has its own micro pub to match!
Just Ales has opened on Market Street and is so small there won’t even be a bar. A selection of beers wine and of course cider will be served to the table and its opening hours will also be micro. “If it’s really busy we may even stay open to 8pm but that’s it”
The White House can’t wait to try it out….
Its not often that I blog about the same issue twice in a row but today I am making an exception. All of us at The White House watched The Great British Design challenge on Tuesday evening and the images of Wells were superb. The City was really shown off to its best advantage and we were very proud to say we are Wellsonians!
I wasn’t convinced with the final designs. None of them seemed to fit with the Grade I listed status of the buildings but the owners seemed to like the final result. Lucy knew a couple of the tenants and has promise dto find out if they have kept the vivd colour schemes!
Here at The White House we’ve been avidly watching the Great Interior Design Challenge. And tomorrow evening, it’s the semi-final.
The programme is based on a number of designers working on different types of property and design briefs with one designer being knocked out each episode.
Tomorrow we are left with three designers trying to secure their place in the final and their challenge this time is to each redesign a sitting room on Vicars Close, in Wells.
Vicars Close is the oldest inhabited medieval terrace in the world and is absolutely beautiful. Its an absolute must see for anyone visiting us, and we’re really looking forward to watching.
If you haven’t yet been to Wells, why not tune in to see what you are missing?
https://www.facebook.com/thegreatinteriordesignchallenge
We all know that Wells is a favorite location for Hollywood film makers and this year, the City is to host its very first film festival.
The event will take place between 21st and 24th April, with a focus on those films which have scenes in and around Wells.
An outdoor screening of the sequal to Snowhite and the Huntsman (The Huntsman: Winter’s War) kicks is an obvious inclusion and here at The White House we are still waiting for further details of the festival, which will be released soon. Watch this space……………………..
I was delighted at the weekend to find out that The White House Bed and Breakfast has won a booking.com Guest Review Award. for an overall score of 9.6 across a total of 73 reviews.
A huge thank you to all of our booking.com guests for showing their appreciation of our efforts.
The White House would like to wish all of our friends, family and guests a Happy New Year and we hope 2016 is a good one for all of you. It certainly passed very quickly for us and while the holiday season seemed to be dominated by news of Britain being drenched and battered by storms, here in Somerset we were lucky enough to miss this very bad weather.
And now, while the Christmas Markets have packed up and disappeared, The Somerset Farmers Markets continue and are definitely worth a visit. There are 16 in total (see www.somersetfarmersmarkets.co.uk for further details of all of them) but those most local to us are: