{"id":801,"date":"2016-08-12T11:54:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T11:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/lovely-bit-of-piggery\/"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:54:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T11:54:55","slug":"lovely-bit-of-piggery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottysblog.com\/home\/lovely-bit-of-piggery\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely Bit of Piggery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a very good Wed eve cheeky midweek break away to the Pig near Bath with Janine. Courtesy of Mr H&#39;s Christmas voucher and a late decision to get out of my dust bowl of a house for the night. 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Have to say, quite like the Pig hotels &#8211; now been to the original one in Brockenhurst, New Forest, then the Pig on the Beach in Dorset, the new one that is the Pig at Coombe (before it was a Pig) and apparently there is one coming in West Sussex soon. The only odd one out is Southampton &#8211; the Pig in the Wall &#8211; that doesn&#39;t seem to have a restaurant, which is kind of all the Pig hotels&#39; reason for being (veg and fruit all grown in the garden, chickens wandering around, no sign of the actual pigs but they all &#39;live locally&#39; etc etc). 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