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The one thing everybody says about Richard Blackwood is that he's basically in love with himself. Nobody means this in a nasty way - there's no suggestion of edge to his self-love, no malice or superciliousness. He is just outlandishly charmed by his own little ways. So, I go in all ready for the preening and flexing and suchlike, but it's rather more instinctive than that. "I've got one of these," he says, messing about with my tape machine. "I use it for my stand-up, when I'm practising."
"What, just to check whether you're funny?" I ask, distracted, looking for a tape. When I look up, he's very faintly puzzled.
"No," he says precisely, "I already knew it was funny; it was in my routine."
To be honest, I don't think this guy is always funny - sometimes he is, undeniably (he does a short, throwaway impression of an eight-year-old talking to his mum's friend at one point, and it still makes me laugh a month later). Other times, he's almost funny, but mainly he's just making a funny face. And sometimes, he's downright hackneyed. But his confidence, the million leagues separating him from self-doubt - it's awe-inspiring.
That said, funniness is the most subjective of things, and there's no quibbling with Blackwood's solidly impeccable comedy credentials. He moved to telly via stand-up, and after only a couple of guest spots (on Five Night Stand and The Real McCoy, among others) his ascendance as a frontman began. He's probably most famous for the Richard Blackwood Show on Channel 4, but he's done masses for MTV. He also recorded a joke rap track called Mama, Who Da Man. (He probably won't do that again. It was bad.)
At our first meeting, in Maidstone at the end of last year, he was taking a giant leap into acting, with Ed Stone Is Dead, a new comedy. It's his first straight acting role, and from the sidelines he looks like a natural. But he isn't finding it as easy as he thought he would: he doesn't like it when other people get the funny lines. "I'm constantly trying to join in with them. I mean, when you're funny, and you see other people being funny, you want to join in, you want to say, 'I'm funny, too. Can I show what I can do?' And it's, like, 'No, you can't, you get back to that straight role over there.'" Not for the first time - and not, I think, on purpose - he comes across like a giant puppy.
It's an odd vehicle for Blackwood to choose - he plays a nice'nuff blokey, accidentally snuffed by a sinister but incompetent Death, who then leaves him on earth to hang about until the time he was meant to die comes around. It's a classic Matter Of Life And Death premise, without the themes of love, loss, war and the tragic, evanescent futility of life, uniqueness and everything. This is the kind of part you'd expect that guy out of Jonathan Creek to crop up in - it's an everyman role, not one for the indefatigable class show-off with the infant-canine leanings. It's also pretty terrible - one of those BBC comedies that is stacked with heavyweight, respectable names (Bill Paterson is Death, for starters), but has just twittering good nature where its wit should be. In a pan-Atlantic context, it's embarrassingly not-quite-good-enough. But Blackwood's purpose is to break America - and that means not waiting around for something as good as The Office (say), but getting some acting down on video and getting out of here. In this order, his priorities are to get his own show, then his own film, then many, many millions of dollars. But only if it's America. He has his eye on the big game. "Ed Stone, I ain't doing it for the money, this is paying my tax. I'm doing it because it's a means to an end. If you're going out there and saying you want to be an actor, then you've got to prove yourself."
In fact, he says he's not in any of this for the money - well, everybody always says that, and I rarely believe it; this time I really don't believe it. The way he speaks about the great cash cow of the entertainment industry, the gleam in his eyes and the bounce in his voice, it all makes you feel as if you've barged in on a private moment. He spends some time musing over whether he'd ever bother with films, if his plans for TV domination come off. "Take Oprah Winfrey. She gets paid 100 million a year, where Robert De Niro gets only eight or nine million a movie. So he'd have to do 10 or 11 movies a year even to catch up with Oprah's wage. Let alone earn more than her. But, you see, that's because she's got a syndicated show. Seinfeld was getting two million an episode. If your show does well, then you talk big bucks, and once you're getting paid big bucks, you'll probably get paid even more because it's raking in so many viewers."
He has total respect for America as the arbiter of showbiz genius - success over here means nothing to him other than as a way into the US. This is not going as smoothly as it could do. Last year, he was signed to Fox, and spent some weeks thrashing out what TV vehicle they would fashion for him, and who would write it. "Everything I've been doing up until this point, be it MTV, the Richard Blackwood Show, Ed Stone, has always been to get myself set up for that ultimate level ... I see people who are successful, but as soon as they leave this country, they're not. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for them, because their dreams are not everybody else's. But, for me, I need to be in America." When I spoke to him again last month - well, I've no idea how fast things are meant to go in this industry, but I don't think they're going very fast. "The major achievement of the year hasn't happened yet," he said stoically, for clarity adding, "I'd be premature if I said anything had happened."
On the one hand, this lust for the US is because Blackwood sees himself as having much more an American sense of humour than an English one - his comic role models are Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby. His format, like theirs, is narrative and observational. "I can tell you a joke, but I don't know whether it will be funny. I don't come from that old school. I come from the school of 'Guess what happened to me today ...' And I can make you laugh from beginning to end. And that is a great skill. It might just sound like I'm talking, and everybody seems to be laughing, but there is a great skill and thought that goes into that process. I think America can relate more to my style of comedy." But there are also slights and disappointments that have contributed to his abandonment of England. "Even though I've reached a good level in the UK, the powers that be haven't really accepted and respected Richard Blackwood. They've been too naive. They don't realise that there are people who relate to me. They just look at me and think, 'I don't remember him in the dramatic society.' I don't feel like I've gone as big as I could go."
That's the other thing America has over England, apart from the money - a system in which black comedians, in fact, black people all over showbiz, do actually get on telly. Blackwood points out, straightforwardly, "There are only four black people [in the UK] who have been given their own show - me, Trevor McDonald, Lenny Henry and Ian Wright." His view of the entertainment world - and this is certainly borne out by reality - is that it will accept only a certain number of black people: "There is a black comedy circuit, but the mainstream scene is only going to let so many of us through at a certain time. I was the lucky one who got discovered, got accepted. But there are still some brilliant black comedians just doing their thing who won't ever get that." He has a variant on the survivor's complex; a pressing sense that he's got where he is at someone else's expense. It sits oddly with his confidence, but gives a new timbre to his escape plans.
Besides the racism, or in tandem with it, there are the very distinct badges of class and upbringing that characterise British comedy, to which Blackwood in no way adheres. He puts this down to the overwhelming Oxbridge slant of British comedy - which isn't, strictly speaking, true. Of the important comedians of the past decade, most of them - Chris Morris, Harry Enfield, Steve Coogan, Johnny Vegas, Ricky Gervais - never went near ivory. But there are a number of comic hallmarks - relentless wordplay, self-deprecation, under-doggy sympathising, kitschery in the manner of "Does anyone remember Bagpuss?" - that are part of the British tradition, that go back to Python and beyond and, as a result, could at a pinch be labelled "Oxbridge".
Blackwood never goes in for that, and his jokes are much more American in tone - less of the "aren't-I-rubbish", more "aren't-other-people-weird". He certainly doesn't see himself as part of the comedy establishment: "Most of them come from Oxford or that kind of stock. It's like a little fraternity. And here's me coming from the street. You can see people thinking, 'You're not really stock, are you?' and I'm, like, 'No, but it's comedy, right?'"
And possibly because he does feel out of the main comic loop, Blackwood objects to most of the funniest stuff on telly. He doesn't like Ali G on the basis that people don't realise he's joking. He's not keen to elaborate on this. Blackwood was also one of the many talking heads gulled by Chris Morris into appearing on Brass Eye's infamous paedophile show and, worse, he was the lummox who told viewers that pederasts could feel child-internet users through the computer screens - "So every time you kids tickle Pantou, the paedophile gets his rocks off. And it doesn't stop there." Afterwards, he sounded off about what a scumbag Morris was, and in the process managed to sound earnest and undudelike. The concept that darkness and malice might be necessary adjuncts to comedy is completely alien to him. He just isn't a taboo-breaker. He never talks about his own faults, or about other people's. He'd never laugh at another's misfortune. ("My feeling is that somebody has to go through the ordeal for me to make the joke. So what I'd be saying was, 'Thanks for getting raped - now I've got a routine!'") He is a kind of innocent, a clean liver, a man of honour. He directs his feet to the sunny side of the street. He never drinks or smokes. He worries about what will happen when his son hits adolescence and won't clean his room, even after having been asked more than once. "I might have to bury him in the garden. If I tell him to clean his room, and I hear 'Pardon', then he's going in the grass." Kian is one; it's meant to be funny, and it is funny, but it's also pretty sweet.
In this respect, as well as every other, I imagine (apart from inside-leg measurement), Blackwood has little in common with his stepsister, Naomi Campbell. He is sick, in his buoyant way, of being asked about her - he wants her to spend interviews being asked about him. That is never going to happen. Even if he went global on a Will Smith scale, he is not angry enough for notoriety.
Campbell is one of five step and half-siblings with whom Blackwood grew up, on and off - he was raised by his grandparents, since his mother and father were only 17 and 19 respectively when he was born. They were strict, moral, upstanding, seen-and-not-heard people; he attributes every admirable aspect of his character, every good decision, to their attitudes. He doesn't have bad habits because they'd rather he didn't. He went to college because they told him to, even though he always knew he wanted to be a comedian. "They said to me, 'Get yourself an education. Because the system that you're going into, they will hold it against you. They will basically say you've got nothing but comedy. If you walk into a room full of people, they might talk in a certain jargon that they think you won't be able to understand, and you want to make them sit up and go, Excuse me!'" Later, he expands on this: "The stereotype of a black man is not an educated one. So I'm a secret weapon. You say you've got a degree and people go, 'You what?' and then you can see them thinking, 'It's probably in PE, or something.' It's not their fault, they're dealing with a stereotype. But it's good to be able to go, 'No, actually, business studies.'"
In many ways, Blackwood is bizarrely tolerant - he will take any kind of bigotry and write it off as the result of a dodgy upbringing or a no-fault social prejudice. Some of the things he says, about England mostly, seem grim and aggrieved when written down, in a way that they absolutely didn't when he said them. In delivery, he is relentlessly upbeat; frenetic, urgent, mainly delighted and, most of all, in a very great hurry. He rarely seems to be listening completely to what he's saying - witness his short oratorio on the subject of his new toothy-veneers. "I like teeth, I've always wanted to have a nice mouth. I had these done just for myself, not for other people. So that when I smiled, people would go, 'Oh my God, that's Coca-Cola'." He will start on the straightest possible topic, and disappear down the strangest eddy. Here he is, on the importance of discipline in a child's upbringing: "People who had a lot of discipline, their heads are in the right place. They laid that foundation. It's, like ... This is me giving advice to my younger brother. We're talking about sex. I'll go, 'You sleep with a woman and your performance is not that great - what did you eat?' Sounds weird, right? And he'd be, like, 'Oh, I had a McDonald's.' And I'm, like, 'Well, there you go. A quarterpounder's not going to give you what it takes. Now, if you'd had yourself a steak, you'd have put out.'"
Clearly, this busy, tangential mind is the mainspring of his comic appeal, but it also seems to be tied to his impatience, his pervasive sense that he shouldn't be dallying around this motorway service station of a country, not when there's America just waiting for him to make it big and move over there. And he's dead right - he won't be properly glossy (apart from the teeth) until 21st Century Fox has got its paws on him.
Whether or not this year does turn productive depends on the autumn pilot season in America. Soon, he will be filming a reality TV show in Thailand called Detox in which he and three others will undergo fasting and colonic irrigation. In the meantime, he's living in an optimistic kind of limbo. "I'm in the gym a lot, because I need to get myself looking a bit different. Richard's got to look sexy now. I need to make sure that, when I get to Hollywood and they tell me to take off my shirt, they're in trouble." It all makes me feel a bit sad.
But of course he'll make it! Apart from the raw comic talent, the Americans will have a field day with his name.
Ed Stone Is Dead starts tomorrow on BBC Choice at 7.30pm.


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When the real estate market isn't doing well it's typically homeowners who feel it worst. Most people don't like to see their investments decrease and neither do homeowners. When home values are decreasing many people feel like they're losing money even if it isn't physical. And when people feel like their losing money they tend to spend less and a domino effect is created that can effect an entire economy. The entire market could be clouded by a bad stigma.
Today, many people still carry the stigma that the real estate market is "bad" or underperforming, and while that may have been true in the past it isn't for today. In Florida, year-over-year home values are up almost 15% and many markets are seeing record low home inventories. These low inventories have led to median home sales price increases of over 18%. Homebuilders are building new homes in astonishing numbers compared to prior years and overall development is up in many areas of the state. The real estate market is back and it's time many homeowners got over the bad stigma of the past and entered the market. With rising home values now is the perfect time to invest in real estate.

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Ffangs lived with the other vampires on Vampire Island but he had something of a problem - he couldn't stand the sight of blood. Ffangs decides to explain his predicament to the Queen, and it is while he finds himself alone in Buckingham Palace that his adventures begin in earnest.
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As I was working with one of my customers this week we encountered a seemingly strange issue! Their user profile synchronization has been running for over a week to no end in sight. So I covered the basics to ensure the User Profile Synchronization Service and Service application are configured properly and according to the configuration guide titled Configure profile synchronization (SharePoint Server 2010) and it was.!?!?! But still the Synch job in question was still running; no errors in the logs both System and ULS.
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Aniello is a regular visitor to Zannone, taking tourists on boat trips to the wildest atoll among the Pontine archipelago off the west coast of Italy. The big attraction, aside from the island's natural beauty, is its dark, sexy past, most of which centers around the Marquis and his wife Anna Fallarino, a former actress. "He was a lewd man, a voyeur who liked to watch and photograph his starlet wife get kinky having sex with with other younger guys," Aniello adds, enjoying spinning R-rated tales as he navigates a maze of reddish-yellow cliffs, old stone fisheries and sea stacks. "Then one day he got fed up of the threesome, shot the two lovers and killed himself." Groto During the 1960s, Zannone -- meaning "big fang" in Italian -- was a secret vacation retreat that the chic and sexually adventurous aristocratic couple had rented from the state. "The nobleman went hunting while his beautiful wife killed time doing different activities," says Aniello. These, he adds, included skinny dipping in ancient Roman pools and entertaining herself on the beach with other men. The isle's isolation made it a perfect place to host masked parties that would culminate in debauched scenes reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut." And its exotic setting matched the provocative nude photographs of Anna taken by her husband. Dozens of yachts and motorboats would land during weekends as dukes, barons, countesses, VIPs and billionaires dropped by. Guests and hosts drank heavily. During recent maintenance work, heaps of broken bottles and glass shards were found buried in the ground by local authorities. According to rumors the villa also featured a "hidden mirror room" to spy on heavy sex sessions. "The villa was a hot jet-society get-together," recalls former caretaker Salvatore Pagano, an old Zannone sea dog who once lived next door to the marquises. "It was crazy here." Residents living on nearby Ponza island, from where today's guided tours depart, still recall the scandalous couple. "We all knew what was happening there," says tourist guide Riccardo Peci. "It was dubbed the 'sex parties isle' but nobody ever uttered a word about it back then." Today, Zannone's rugged terrain is mostly deserted. "It's what we call a Pulcinella's secret," he adds, meaning everyone knew. Then things ran out of control. The erotic games ended in bloodshed in 1970 when Anna fell in love with one of her many handsome lovers. In a fit of jealousy, her husband killed the pair, then shot himself in the head in their attic in Rome. Italian tabloids rushed to publish parts of the marquis's secret "green velvet diary," in which he had apparently written in detail about his wife's love triangles. The hottest finds, though, were the 1,500 indecent photos locked up in his office drawers. There's nothing on Zannone today, not even a bar. Just a lighthouse and the whitewashed villa with colonnades and a patio overlooking the sea, now in need of extensive remodeling. The villa was built in the 1930s and was passed from one noble family to another. Italian aristocracy had always used the island as a private hunting reserve, populating it with hundreds of mouflon wild sheep. The sheep, Zannone's sole modern inhabitants, are now a protected species, at home on the steep, dark cliffs. Now the island is the playground of visitors, who can bathe in the same waters where Anna Fallarino once frolicked. It's an attractive spot. From the tour boat, it's possible to dive in and swim below the villa to the private pebble beach that the marquis's wife once enjoyed. Fallen tree trunks, palms and fluorescent green seaweed make it look like a Seychelles-style paradise. Nearby are the crumbling remains of ancient fisheries once used to raise moray eels. 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In the beginning of 2007, most Charger fans were screaming for Marty Schottenheimer's head after the debacle against the New England Patriots. Fans had enough of "Martyball" and wanted a change of guard. Sure, Marty was somewhat an inspirational coach, with his "One play at a time" mantra. But that can only take a team so far. So, we saw that the team was capable of execution, but poor coaching decisions in the playoffs showed Schottenheimer the exit. But like many will argue, exactly how much responsibility should fall on the coaching staff?
Enter Norv Turner. Last season, the team sputtered at the start, no doubt the regime change contributed to this. And if one made a case to argue that coaching was to blame, they would be hard pressed to find someone to counter them. But they eventually found their stride with good offensive plays called which lead to a respectable playoff run. The defense, anchored by Shawne Merriman, was stalwart through most of the season. Forced turnovers were aplenty, interceptions were bountiful and sacks were volumenous. And the offense (when everyone was healthy) was banging on all twelve (eleven?) cylinders.
But something about this season is appallingly different. The most glaring being the absense of Merriman. The D has lost it swagger, its tenacity. To me, some players are going through the motions. It looks like new defensive coordinator Ron Rivera is trying to right the ship, and he did to some degree by keeping the Pittsburgh Steelers out of the endzone and calling some plays to put pressure on Ben Roethlisberger. But every single team we've played this year has thrown for over 200 yards, with many over 250 and 300. Completely unacceptable and thus prompting the departure of Ted Cottrell. But now that Cottrell is gone, the last 2 games showed more of the same pass defense. So, while a coaching change might have been necessary, what about the players? When are some of these guys going to be held accountable? If Chargers GM AJ Smith says the players are "On Notice", then its time to act and call these players out. And they know who they are.
Offensively, execution is the sticking point. I think Turner is calling the right plays, though I would like to see him mix it up a bit more. We are at times too predictable and when a defense knows exactly what you're going to do, its nearly impossible to execute a play to the best of your abilities. To Phillip Rivers: Like it or not, you are the leader of this offense. So when you have a bad day, the O has a bad day. LT has become relegated to a support role. And while teams still respect him, its apparent he's not the #1 priority anymore as simply containment is the key to defending him. Bottom line is you can't turn the ball over deep into an opponent's territory, or anywhere on the field for that matter. So until Rivers can manage the game like he has in seasons past, the offense will continue to struggle.
All of the players need to ask themselves "Am I doing everything I can on each and every play to help this team win?". I'm tired of seeing such a talented team underachieve.
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- Rob Zepeda said... Nov 19, 2008, 12:03:00 PM
The thing that bothers me is that Norv Turner seems to too easily excuse Philip Rivers when he makes a costly mistake. Maybe its Turner's background as a Quarterback, but the guy always seems to have an excuse for each and every interception that Rivers makes. Offensive turnovers should be inexcusable, especially when your defense can't create any for themselves.
I second both of your opinions. The AFC West is pathetic and there was still a good chance of winning the divison. But, after the lose at Pittsburgh this is really getting heart breaking. And the icing on the cake is LT is thinking about pulling a Barry Sanders on us. But I really hope that's just him venting his frustration. But you got it right "I'm tired of seeing such a talented team underachieve."
I agree that AJ Smith should call out players that are on notice. We are in position to extend certain players but if we make the wrong decision either to resign them or let them go, we could be shooting ourselves in the foot.
Obviously letting Drayton Florence leave via free agency was a no-brainer but what if we franchised Michael Turner instead of letting him walk? Where would our team be right now?
Pete, even with Michael Turner the team would be where it is today. One man is not making this a playoff calibre team. The defense is the problem. Not the coaches, not the play calling, not the "lack of commitment" from LT. It's the 27th ranked defense. Guess who else has a defense ranked that low: Rams (2-8), Lions (0-10), Chiefs (1-9), Browns (4-6). Is it coincidence that the top 10 teams have the top 10 defenses? No. SD's defense is a joke.
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Although Carrier does cover a lot of ground, I do not believe he has given adequate attention to the announcement narrative itself or Mary's encounter with Elizabeth the mother of John the Baptist. From those two accounts, it seems clear that Luke places Mary's conception very shortly after the announcement that she will conceive (which took place while Elizabeth was pregnant with John).
The appearance of Gabriel to Mary announcing her pregnancy, as well as Mary's visit to her cousin (pregnant with John the Baptist) and finally the birth of John the Baptist, are all clearly placed "In the days of Herod, King of Judaea." It seems that Luke places Jesus' birth in this same time. It is very unlikely that Luke intends to give the impression that Jesus was not conceived at this time, or even close to this time. The theory Luke places Jesus' birth in 6 CE means that the announcements of Mary's pregnancy -- as well as interaction with the pregnancy and birth of John the Baptist -- occurred at least 10 years before Jesus' conception. In fact, this would require that John the Baptist was 12 when Jesus was born and that poor Joseph had to wait 10-12 years before "consummating" his marriage with Mary.
There are other features about Luke's first chapter that indicate that the birth followed shortly after the announcement. First, Luke uses Mary's response to the announcement to indicate that conception will take place shortly:
And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus. "He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end." Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I am a virgin?" The angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.
Luke 1:31-35 (emphasis added). The bold portion shows that Mary certainly understands the angel to mean that the conception to occur very soon. If it was to take place at some indeterminate point in the future, as much as 10 years later, she would have assumed that this would occur after her marriage to Joseph. Because she was already betrothed to Joseph (Luke 1:27), this places the conception very soon after the announcement. See Darrell L. Bock, Jesus According to Scripture, page 59 ("The note about betrothal means that the marriage probably would be consummated within a year."). As Bock comments:
Mary obviously takes the announcement not in terms of what the future marriage will bring but in terms of something that will happen in the near future, for she notes that currently she has no husband.
Bock, op. cit., page 60.
Next, Elizabeth's response to Mary after John leapt in her womb indicates that Mary was already pregnant.
When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. And she cried out with a loud voice and said, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! "And how has it happened to me, that the mother of my Lord would come to me?
Luke 1:41-43. As the bold portion shows, Elizabeth already refers to Mary as the "mother of my Lord." This makes much more sense after conception than before. Note also that Elizabeth says of Mary, "And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord." Luke 1:45. Note the use of the past tense. Elizabeth does not say that Mary expects fulfillment or has faith that there will be a fulfillment, the affair is placed in the past tense.
Carrier raises other points which deserve attention, such as the dating of John's and Jesus' ministry, but the above discussion gives reason to doubt his understanding of Luke.


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Located in Historic Downtown, this historic bed & breakfast is steps from Chatham Square, Georgia Historical Society, and Monterey Square. Armstrong House and Mickve Israel Temple are also within 5 minutes.
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This bed & breakfast features wedding services, a garden, and free breakfast. WiFi in public areas is free.
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Savannah's Bed and Breakfast Inn
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Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access.
- Total number of rooms - 5
- Year Built 1853
- Free breakfast
- Free WiFi
- Garden
- Free parking nearby
- Wedding services
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free parking nearby
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- Air conditioning
- Private bathroom
- Cable TV service
- Iron/ironing board
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Television
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
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Complimentary continental and full breakfasts are available each morning between 7:30 AM and 10 AM.
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Check-in time ends at 9 PM
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