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Harbor Breeze Inn
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1 review for Harbor Breeze Inn
Harbor Breeze Inn and Gardens:
It's a regular Cape B&B inn from May-October - motel-type rooms with their own outside entrance, and a central dining/living room where you go for your breakfast. Little display full of flyers for local attractions and boat charters. . . the usual. My room was clean, fresh and neat, with a bunch of giant, comfy, excellent pillows on the king sized bed. Each room has a small TV and small fridge (bigger than a cube) Free wifi. Nicely landscaped grounds; the whole place is very well maintained. There's a pool, and some rooms have Jacuzzi tubs and their own deck. It's a 10 min walk to the beach, and not far to a large Star Market/Osco and the center of town. It's about a block from Allen Harbor. Run by Jim and Marie. Nice people.
Evensong by the Sea Ecumenical Retreat and Spirituality Center:
Harbor Breeze Inn does business as Evensong from November - April. I chose this place after long, hard searching for. . . . .ANYPLACE within a day's drive that was OPEN the week of Christmas, had a reasonable price tag, and would feed me without me having to go to a restaurant for every meal. Enter a 4 night "silent individual retreat" at Evensong by the Sea. $95 a night for 3 meals a day(dinner your first day, breakfast and lunch your last) and a nice room. They don't have any religious agenda for visitors, lucky for me. And them. They totally left me alone, which was the idea, considering my misanthropic cranky-pants attitude of late. And until the last day, I was the only one there anyway. On their silent retreat, you can choose to meet with someone for "spiritual direction"(didn't do this); OR Marie is a Reiki master and offers treatments(did this). Silent just means no unnecessary speech; you can ask where things are or give important information (I appear to be on fire, pass the water please. . . ) I listened to music in my room. Silent means you don't have to feel weird not making small talk, and no one will be offended that you are ignoring them.
Food:
Simple, nourishing, home cooked fare. 3 square a day. Available 24/7 in the dining area: coffee and tea, cereal and breads, peanut butter, butter, jam, (nonfat) milk, (nonfat. . oh god. . why) cottage cheese, and juice. They also had nonfat half and half. So.. . half what and half what? I sat at the table furthest away from it, and thought "half nonfat milk and half sunshine and rainbows" to make myself feel better. HOWEVER -The truly important thing is they had REAL BUTTER - so I still like them. Some kind of margarine crap and I would've had to call it quits.
Highlights:
They left a vase of fabulously fragrant white roses at breakfast on Christmas, for me to take back to my room. Pan fried trout with green beans. Really Good chocolate zucchini bread - which I covered in butter, making it Great. Excellent turkey-vegetable soup. They tried to hide some tempeh in it, but I won't hold that against them. Roasted chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy. A very well done split pea soup with ham. A seven circuit labyrinth. A Reiki treatment that left me so far out in lala land that I couldn't even FIND my body for about 5 minutes when it was over, let alone move it. That was wild - and intensely relaxing. An owl that who-whoooed me to sleep.
Experiential Overview:
Damn. Hell of quiet. Scary quiet. . . but then. . .wow, I like this quiet. Settling into more sleep than I've had in months - complete with crazy, vivid dreams. Writing and reading totally uninterrupted. Other people making ME food. Throw in some Reiki, naps and long walks. Sleep, eat, walk, repeat. . . I'm starting to understand why dogs are so happy and waggy. If I just get neutered, I'll have everything I need here. Jim and Marie. . .can I move in?
Well. . .no, Kathy. . you, um. . .no, you can't.
Sigh.
*Back to life. . . .back to re-ality. . .*
Everyone says I look rested. : )
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