Hi all! Posting here for traffic. Sorry my username isn't a bit more scintillating.
I'm from the States, but back in 2004 my parents and I spent some time in and around London. We stayed at the most lovely bed and breakfast, and I would dearly love to find it online and show pictures to my DH, but neither of my parents seem to be able to remember so much as the name of the area we were in. I was only about ten years old, but I have some of the happiest memories of that trip.
Here is what I do remember! It was a very large, very old house. At least it seemed very old to me as a child, though I do seem to remember hearing the owner talk about its history. I remember being very impressed by its size and grandeur! It was owned by a woman. I believe she had a husband and children as well but I never saw them. Her elderly mother lived there also. It seemed like it was quite a long drive from where we got off the ferry after crossing the Channel. It wasn't terribly far from London, but far enough that we only stayed there a few nights to recover from jet lag before proceeding to a hotel from which we went back and forth to London. I think it was probably quite a standard village; I remember stone houses, horseback riders, children in school uniforms, etc all of which were of course quite novel to me!
I realize this is barely any information whatsoever, it certainly hasn't been enough for me to turn anything up via Google. Even though it's a long shot I am so hoping it rings a bell for someone! We had disposable cameras along but only a few blurry pictures were taken, though I can see it all clearly in my mind, and I'd love to revisit those memories with a bit more information.
AIBU?
To ask you to help me recall a memory
user1471451355 · 17/09/2016 04:04
Could be the Holiday Inn in Greenwich? Just surmising that if you drove up from Dover through Kent then went on the tube to central London that would be the most logical route...probably the only South East London Underground station in suburbs at that time...Holiday Inn also could be the one at the Black Prince interchange in Bexley, but this is not really close to an underground station. Would be interested to see pics if you have them as they'd help! Good luck. 
Thank you! I have decided that I'll keep much better records of our family adventures for my DD, though I suppose in this day and age with Facebook and the internet it'll be nearly impossible to completely lose track of where you went twelve years ago. 
I've looked those both up and neither are the one we stayed at. It was definitely a Holiday Inn (I was surprised, for some reason I didn't think there would be any of those overseas!) and I can see it in my mind, but it was in the middle of nowhere, sort of. Not in a town or city.
How did my parents CHOOSE these places, do you think? 
I have found a few B&Bs online that look similar to what I am remembering. I will have to show them to my mom in the morning and see if her memory is jogged. I need closure!
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Unless of course my dear old dad had some other sights that he wanted to see along the way and we detoured, which would be quite unsurprising. I seem to have spent a good deal of my childhood traveling around looking at things
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