{"id":1015,"date":"2014-07-01T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/pig-on-the-beach\/"},"modified":"2014-07-01T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T16:30:12","slug":"pig-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/home\/pig-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Pig on the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No &#8211; not for once, a delicious hog roast occasion (more&#39;s the pity) but instead a night away with John &amp; Hannah Nurse to try out the latest opening in the range of Pig hotels (original one in Brockenhurst, think one now in Bath and maybe some others).<\/p>\n<p>Spent the day poncing about the spa at Limewood with Hannah, who declared it the best she had ever been to in the UK &#8211; high praise indeed &#8211; while the boys were chasing and losing balls on the golf course. And then met up at the Pig, up on a grassy cliff bathed in sunshine overlooking Studland Bay &#8211; what a great location.<\/p>\n<p>And then we CANED it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Discovered they have a top notch gin bar, with a huge range of eclectic gins, most of which even I didn&#39;t know (and I make it my life&#39;s work, as you know, to lovingly fondle as many beverage bottles as possible..), as well as a cracking range of just about everything else interesting you could imagine. Add in a friendly and knowledgable (cute, blond, cougar-able, <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b01a511d8badd970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"P1100994\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0105359a4116970b01a511d8badd970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b01a511d8badd970c-500wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"P1100994\" \/><\/a>in photo) barman and Hannah getting steadily more ratted (&#39;that&#39;s AMAZING&#39; becoming the response to everything as the night wore on..) and it was a really good night away.<\/p>\n<p>Food was fab &#8211; all the nice little touches that the more independent type of place offers (little milk churns for the morning milk, freshly baked banana bread, fresh poached pears, just-baked bread etc) and good staff plus nice walks to Old Harry rocks etc, and it&#39;s somewhere worth a revisit. Or maybe one of its other Porcine friends.. <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b01a511d8bb14970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"P1100997\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0105359a4116970b01a511d8bb14970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b01a511d8bb14970c-500wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"P1100997\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b01a73de4257b970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"P1100982\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0105359a4116970b01a73de4257b970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/scottysblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a0105359a4116970b01a73de4257b970d-500wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"P1100982\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No &#8211; not for once, a delicious hog roast occasion (more&#39;s the pity) but instead a night away with John &amp; Hannah Nurse to try out the latest opening in the range of Pig hotels (original one in Brockenhurst, think one now in Bath and maybe some others). 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