chapter 39
Heidi At six thirty, Alan and Vicky arrive to take us out for dinner. We drive a few miles into the English countryside, and Alan pulls up outside a building with a thatched roof and white cob walls, with a sign hanging out the front that says, “The Green Man”. “It dates back to 825AD,” he tells us as we get out. “It was originally a nunnery and a farm, and it’s in the Domesday Book.” It goes back to the time of William the Conqueror? “Wow.” I’m thrilled, and I can see that Titus is genuinely impressed. “It’s supposed to have a couple of ghosts, too,” Vicky teases as we go inside. “Even better.” The long bar that spans the length of the room is made from solid English oak, and blackened beams run along the ceiling and down the walls, filled in with cob. One wall contains a beautiful
- Writer
