The Great Fig Heist of 2017

The Great Fig Heist!

A few weeks ago it looked like we were heading for a bumper crop of figs. There were going to be plenty of figs for preserve making and for sharing with the wildlife in our yard. Alas, as I write this there are few figs to be found on our giant fig trees. They’ve been absconded with.
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Special Diet? We get that.

Special Diet? We get that.

Speaking from personal experience as someone with over 3 million airline miles and a need to watch what kinds of food I put into my body, traveling when you are on a special diet can be – dare I say – tasteless. But it doesn’t have to be, and at The Fairview we think we have solved that culinary conundrum quite tastefully.
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What makes for a Great Hotel Breakfast?

What’s more important in a hotel, Breakfast or the Bed?

If “Breakfast” is the longest word in “Bed & Breakfast” does that mean that the hotel breakfast served at a B&B is more important than the “Bed”? It really all depends on “what you stay for.”
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