We finish the 2006 season today when our last guests leave. It's been fantastic. When I look back to the start last April it seems like last year, but I'm not completely exhausted, so it seems short too. We've had so many wonderful people to stay and more laughter than one can imagine. I feel extraordinarily lucky to live in this beautiful house that other people are happy to come to share with us.
TripAdvisor has been fantastic for us this year. I didn't know about it until one of our guests wrote us a very kind review, after which many others have too. The reviews are completely independent; we have no idea what people have written until it's published. So that makes me nervous too in case we get a bad review. So far we've been lucky but, quite rightly, it keeps us on our toes. Lots of people who've come at the latter end of this season told us that TripAdvisor sealed their choice on where to stay during their holiday.
As for the winter, we set to on all the thousands of maintenance and improvement jobs around this kind old house, take a bit of a holiday in Perth, Western Australia, and spend lots of time bringing the garden on. I'm in the middle of doing us a new website. I didn't realise how big the current one has become until I started anew. But there'll be lots of fresh stuff on the new site, so if you've stayed with us before do take a look in a month or so.
Next year is shaping up very well indeed. We have a stoolball tour coming to stay in May, and the lovely Pete Churchill's course. We also have bookings from travelling Australians right up to the end of September 2007. I've never booked a B&B a year in advance - have you?
And if anything was needed to mark the end of the season, it's lunch in Meze with our pals. Which is just what we're off to do. Cascades of shellfish - yummy!
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