Henley-on-Thames (Part 4)
On Tuesday evening-ish we headed to Henley-on-Thames, on the recommendation of Angela. It was an adorable little town and I kind of wish I had money to take advantage of all the cute shopping. Mostly the rare and antique book shop. And the boots. Ugh! The boots.
We got there a little bit on the late side, having come by train from Paddington Station. Our room was absolutely heavenly (especially after our smelly hole in London, which actually was probably a steal considering how much we paid for it). We stayed at a place called Milsoms, which was another Angela recommendation. It was sort of between a pub and a restaurant, like you walked through a pub and on the left was the reception area and straight ahead was this gorgeous restaurant.
Our room, and our bathroom which was up some steps from the room:
So when you walked out the door of our hotel, to the right was this view (1st picture) and a bit down the street on the left you'd hit the river:
That night we stayed near the airport at a really American-y hotel that had a full restaurant, a pub with pub food, a full cafe, a playground, a projector screen with the Manchester U game on, and a convenience store all in the lobby. Some British HGTV and this awesome sort of talk-faux-quiz show with Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry, and then to sleep. Next day we tried to blow the last of our pounds in Heathrow (which is totally not hard, btw), and then HOME!
And that is the end.
P.S. Dane has a lot more (and some much better) pictures here. And also tons of pictures of me, including whole action sequences of me doing riveting things like putting my hair in a ponytail or reading a book or going up an escalator.
