"The story - I send my husband to france with the contact details of Appleton to arrange a stay on a very long journey back from Monleon (midi-pyrenees) to the UK with my father and our german shepard. As normal the boys ingnored a perfectly reasonable instruction to call and arrange before they left, instead on the journey a few miles out they called asking if they could be accomodated. You picked up the phone and made thier day by saying yes more than welciome come on over, how accomodating at such "very" short notice. They were welcomed by friendly faces and a very freindly atmosphere, along with a lovely bottle of red and the company flowed through the evening, whilst I was texting to see if they were still alive!! You accomodated our dear old german shephard so no uncomforatable stay in the car for her either, what a wonder that there are such places for us dog lovers. Breakfast - apparantly better than mine! not sure that I would agree with that, but tasty all the same. thank you to you both for looking after my two weary travellers, if we do the trip again we would certainly call to see if you are still there. Have a great 2012 - Rob / John - the wife!! (tara) :):)"