Both the half marathon (Sunday May 20) and 8K (Saturday May 19) begin at Phi Beta Kappa Hall (600 Jamestown Road), on the campus of The College of William & Mary and winds  through Colonial Williamsburg’s famous Historic Area, finishing at William & Mary’s Zable Stadium. The half marathon also includes the parts of the Colonial Parkway towards the James River.
The Kids Fun Run on Saturday takes place at Zable Stadium and includes three lengths: 100 meter sprint, 400 meter dash and a mile run.

We have decided to re-open the Inn at 802 and would love to see you again.  Please take a few moments to see what we have done to the place.

First, we have reduced the number of rooms to one!  But what a room it is.  Your “room” encompasses almost 2000 sq. ft of living space that will sleep four to six people comfortably in 2 master en-suite bedrooms and a sleeper sofa in the great room.  A fully equipped gourmet kitchen is yours to recreate the breakfast recipes you enjoyed at the Inn in the past.  Yes, it is now a ‘self-catered’ Inn.  So you are not limited to just breakfast. Your friends and family can enjoy your own home cooking; breakfast, lunch and dinner.  You can even barbeque in the private courtyard.

The spacious new accommodations are perfect for extended stays for you to enjoy what the entire Southeastern Virginia area has to offer with a great home base to return to after some fun, interesting day trips.  Among the close-by destinations are:  Charlottesville, to the west for a visit to the home of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello.  Enjoy all that the Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown Colonial Triangle has to offer from your home away from home at the Inn.   To the East, we are only an hour drive to Virginia Beach and two hours to the famous beaches of the North Carolina outer banks; from Corolla Light to the dunes of Kitty Hawk and Nags Head.

The Inn is the perfect spot for visiting the colleges in the area.  Among them are UVA, William & Mary, Christopher Newport, VCU, Old Dominion, University of Richmond, James Madison and many more.  We are located just across the street from the College of William and Mary, so the Inn is the perfect spot for the family for graduation, homecoming, family weekends and Tribe Football!

 For a great golf outing, the Williamsburg area offers many great courses including The Golden Horseshoe (1 mile away) and Kings Mill, where the LPGA play the Michelob Open again this year.

If your plans include a stay from a minimum of 3 nights to a week or longer, please check out our rates and the new pictures on the site.

Joe and Cathy Bradley

3 eggs – separate yolks and whites (use two bowls)

½ cup whole milk ricotta cheese

¼ cup cottage cheese

¼ cup melted butter

¼ cup plus 1 Tablespoon unsalted flour (I use White Lilly)

2 Tablespoons Sugar

Zest of one or two lemons (the more the better)

Pinch of salt.

Mix cheeses, butter, flour, egg yolks, sugar, zest and salt in bowl and stir.  Beat Egg Whites until stiff and then fold the egg whites gently into batter.

Lightly butter hot griddle

6-7 pancakes. 

Double this recipe for more than 4 people.

On Sunday we boarded a bus, with all of the other wedding guests, for over an hour treak to the Ballintubber Abbey in County Mayo.  Talk about a destination wedding, this 800 year old abbey was quite impressive. Ballintubber takes its name from St. Patrick-Baile tobair Phádraig – the townland of St Patrick’s well, where Patrick baptized his converts.  Did you know that as a boy of fourteen or so, Patrick was captured during a raiding party and taken to Ireland, orginally from Scotland, as a slave to herd and tend sheep. This was in the days of the Druids and pagans and therefore he took their language and practices.  He turned to God as a child and prayed until he escaped in his twenties and returned to Scotland, studied for the priesthood, was eventually ordained a Bishop.  He then returned to Ireland where he preached and converted all of Ireland for the next 40 years!  They say that he drove all of the snakes out of Ireland also!

The actual draw to this magnificate Island is the  TT, where people have been coming for over 100 years to experience the speed and stunning motorcycle racing of this mountain course.  Due to the wind and rain they cancelled the first day we were there and I thought I would let the guys take in all the excitement on day two as there were too many other things to do and since I had been looking at the back of a motorcycle for the past 6 days, I thought I would give it a break.

On Sunday we stopped in Glengarriff for gas and tea then spent the day touring the Ring of Beara on the bikes, driving all the way to Garnish Point. Lunch at O’Sullivans in Eyeries Village was fun, then through the Healy Pass back to Bantry.  The cliffs, narrow roads, passages, roaming livestock, sharp turns with steep slopes made the adventure more breathtaking in more ways than one.   The roads were initially carved out for horse and buggy so they cover only the most magnificent coastline and mountain passes.   I read up a bit before choosing the Ring of Beara over the famous Ring of Kerry and I am certainly glad I did.  I hear the later tends to be a bit crowded in the summer.