Travel - Art - Food. Firle in Sussex

I was casting around for a good place to stay close to www.charleston.org.uk -

the country home of the Bloomsbury set, an influential group of English writers, intellectuals, and artists including Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, and Virginia Woolf. 

I found The Ram Inn in the village of Firle in the South Downs of Sussex, a lovely pub in the heart of the village with four rooms upstairs and cracking good food & wine. 

The lane through the village. 

Comfy room with sheepskins on the floor and a view out to the splendid green. 

The neighbors lovely homes.

Firle stores - sweet. 

Firle from the top of the downs. 

Landlady Hailey Bayes has given Brighton trained head chef Jack Cotton plenty of freedom to experiment. The menu is varied and inventive and modern. 

Here is golden cross goat cheese with mâché. Won Best Goat Cheese in England.

Don't they look happy? Together with Linda, Glen, Georgia, Erina and Alex, the staff at The Ram Inn will take good care. Go. Eat well. Sleep well, and visit Charleston House, next post.