
There’s something faintly fairytale-ish about The Dew Drop Inn, right down to the address. Honey Lane, Pudding Hill — which scriptwriter dreamt up that? It is Hollywood picturesque; not for nothing is it known as “the little pub in the woods”.
Despite this, it is not far from London, Maidenhead being 20-odd minutes from Paddington and the inn only a short taxi ride after that. But it offers tranquillity of the transportive kind.