On this spot in Stowe, Vt., 35 years ago, a few miles from the slopes, we had stayed in what was then a simple motor inn.
Once a simple coaching inn, with its white-stone facade and black lattice windows, The Spread Eagle remains a firm favourite.
"In 1889, she opened a simple country inn named Café-Restaurant du Pin". Her husband Eugene was a hunter, so game became her specialty.
Michel's wife, Marie-Pierre, had has as large a role as her husband in reshaping the family's main place of business, which today bears no resemblance whatever to the simple inn that Michel's grandfather Jean-Baptiste bought in 1930.
Participants will sleep on comfortable tatami in a simple ryokan (traditional Japanese inn) and dine on soba and mountain vegetables in the 380-year-old residence of a former samurai.
In 1875 the George and Dragon, a simple three-bay Georgian inn in the village, was remodelled by adding ribbed chimneys, moulded brick mullions, an elliptical-headed doorway and a steep pyramid-shaped turret.
Over a simple country dinner at an inn in Bordeaux with my wife: There were five couples Japanese, Danish, French, American and us (also American).
Someday, he'd like to have a little place in Provence, an inn with five or six rooms, a simple restaurant and a beautiful garden.
For a simple overnight getaway to the beach, the Casa Tropicana Inn is about as easy as it gets.
Cynthia, the forever-helpful inn manager (who explained the mystery of the missing tourists with a simple "September 11"), arranged to have a woman from the village come to the inn for the project.
