OK, I’ve been an innkeeper for more than six years now. There are things I know about this business, and many things I don’t. One of the things I know is that people like specials. People like packages. So, in celebration of six years, we are FINALLY going to offer some. No, I’m not slow off the mark and no, I don’t have so much business I don’t need to think about such things. I can really only blame the absolutely constant to-do lost that is longer than both of my arms. Owning an Inn and restaurant is a very busy life. Fun, exciting and ever-changing. Throw in the fact that the Inn is over 200 years old…and you can see where my to-do lost begins to grow and grow. I’m not complaining, I’m just trying to justify this six year lag to myself, via this blog.

But, here we are, and I’m working on some packages. Which is harder than you’d think. There seem to be 100 ways to structure them, and there are so many things to do here in our neck of the woods. I’ve started having some great conversations with other businesses locally, farmers, cheesemakers…one of the huge perks of this job is such a wealth of good will and good friends made through these connections. And so, The Shoreham Inn will be bringing you together with some of our great friends in the very near future. Stay tuned, a whole new page will appear someday soon with some suggestions of things to do while you’re staying with us and some special enticements to get you here to do them.

Well, here we are again, and let me tell you, it’s nearly impossible to believe. Six years ago, on St. Patrick’s Day, we opened the doors of The Shoreham Inn for the first time. We wanted to say hello to our new neighbors, welcome people to our new business and generally see what we could see. Wow. And wow, again. That’s all we could say on March 18th 2004. We used to joke that moving from London, England to Shoreham, Vermont was like moving to another planet. Absolutely everything changed when we made that move, so much so that it was hard to even begin to point out differences, hence, Planet Shoreham. As we discovered then, and continue to discover almost every day, Planet Shoreham is a pretty special place, full of funny, loyal, critical, helpful and generous people. We really don’t know how we got so lucky. Maybe there is something to the ‘luck of the Irish’.

And so, with that, St. Patrick’s Day rolls around again, and we take the opportunity to say thank you to all our customers and friends who make the Pub a pub. Dominic and I had an idea of a country village pub, and we did all we could to put the elements in place to make it happen. The final, and most crucial ingredient, is the customers. The customers that embrace a place and make it their own. Only then does a pub become a pub. And boy, has Planet Shoreham done us proud.

Thank you for 6 wonderful years.