At last Christmas is here. We may already have a Christmas tree beautifully adorned in the living room and a collection of Santas bringing some festive colour to the mantle piece, however, it didn't really feel like Christmas until we could turn our backs on our jobs for the holidays. And today we both felt one hundred percent better waking up knowing that we didn't have to go to work until the New Year. In fact, I never received one card from anyone I work with.
To celebrate, and get the festive season off and running, we booked a table at the White Horse Hotel in Hertingfordbury for lunch. We had been meaning to try this place out for a while and this seemed the ideal time to go. It certainly turned out to be a memorable occasion, but not for the reason we expected. We thought that the restaurant would be quaint and old, with a couple of areas for an even more romantic setting. However, the room was an open plan room with a conservatory attached to the back. Under the conservatory and stretching into the main area were four long banks of tables covered with white linen. The staff were laying the china and cutlery, not to mention party hats and Christmas crackers. Our single table was located to the side at the back of the room with two chairs side by side. In between was an area big enough to be used as a small dance floor after the party had finished the food. The party by the way was not scheduled to start until 7.30pm.
You've got it. We had the whole restaurant to ourselves. It did have piped Christmas music in the background, and the food was excellent. But the ambiance was not what we expected.
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