Had a “red letter” day since last Christmas which needed to be used – so we booked into The Hatton Court Hotel near Upton St Leonards.
Went up early doors, and as the forcast was for rain we decided to go straight into Gloucester and have a look around, rather than risk a wet walk in the countryside. Gloucester was fine, not a bad place to visit – the docks being the best bit, but after a stroll it was agreed that I could get some booze – so I did.
With the sun not quite over the yardarm I tucked into a little glass of booze. Sian had a rubbish coffee, which was made barely drinkable by a load of extra milk. There was an odd woman serving, and no one else in there we just had the one.
Next up was the docks, we went to a little pub called the tall ships which was also a “seafood” restaurant, to see what they had on offer. Grub was okay, but decided just to have a beverage. Then to Wetherspoons.
Next stop was food, and The Barge proved to be very disappointing, it had a toilet with a numerical lock – so you have to remember the number – quite embarrassing if you can’t.
Enough of Gloucester, it was nearing checkin time, so he headed off to the Hatton Court. Once in the room, we were disappointed to find that it was “old”. Which meant that they had an excuse to have peeling wallpaper around the “old” lead windows, water damaged widow ledges and a toilet which didn’t flush properly. Still, we moaned to ourselves and left for the walk down the massive hill to the pub at the bottom.
We had a beer or two here.
Back up the ginormous hill and we had another beer, which was Hatton Lager – interesting, and quite nice, until I found out it was re-badged Coors Lite. Then checked into the restaurant and got served by a rubbish waitress. It trys to be a bit up-market, but doesn’t really succeed. We inquired about the Linguine to see what was ith it, and there wasn’t anything – so no chicken or seafood, it was just pasta – £13:50 worth of just pasta!
I went for the expensive selection and it was pretty good. Then bed.
Decent breakfast, and an early checkout as we had to be back home for Remembrance Sunday.