Some General Features:

The Breakfast: In Europe it's called "Extended" breakfast. The standard offering for years was hard rolls, butter, marmalade, and coffee. Ours is fruit or juice, fresh muffins and/or various toasts, butter, jam/honey/cheese and beverage. You serve yourself.

The Stube is the heart of the house. Snuggle up to that warm tile oven on a Winter evening. Room aplenty for work, games or good talk.

• Dining- within 7-8 minutes you can dine New England Style, Mexican, Italian, Thai, Chinese, German, Pizza, Seafood, etc. "Take out" can be brought home and enjoyed on the house dishware in the Stube.
• The unique, oversize European beds are so comfortable that we've had to start a list of guests who want them.
• Amenities- Of particular interest to business visitors is our guests' access, with a modest fee, to Milford's lavish Health/Fitness facility, Hampshire Hills. This arrangement with this outstanding club lets us offer the ultimate in amenities.
  *Indoor and Outdoor Swimming Pool
  *Indoor and Outdoor Tennis
  *Jacuzzi, Suana and Steam Facilities
  *Nautilus, Cybex, and Free Weight Equipment
  *Lifecycles, Stair Masters, Treadmills, Rowers
  *Raquetball, Squash, Indoor Track, "Tiebreakers" Sports Bar
  
  
• Each room contains its own bathroom and shower. The showers are the hand-held type, common in Europe. Very nice.
• ANTIQUES- famous as "The Antique Trail", there are hundreds of dealers within 15 minutes of the house.
  
  • New Hampshire International Speedway, located in Loudon, is only an hours distants for NASCAR lovers.
  • TAX FREE SHOPPING- lots of local specialty shops plus major Malls nearby.
  • The site is wooded and quiet yet only 3 minutes from the center of Milford, 20 minutes from Manchester and Nashua with their airports, and l-l/4 hours from Logan airport at Boston.
  • Woodland walks, golf galore, x-country and Alpine skiing, tennis-all nearby.
  • Also, the home of Zahn's GlacierTours; a tour service specializing in hiker, biker, skier junkets to Alpine Europe.
  • Ski/Stay packages with nearby Crotched Mountain Ski Area are available.

  
  Our hand-made-on-site Kachelofen (Tile Oven) is the jewel of the house. Almost all dwellings in Alpine Europe utilize these marvelous heaters which exploit masonry's characteristic of "quick absorption, slow release of heat." We were fortunate to find a Bavarian Master Builder fairly nearby. The hand decorated, two-ton knick-knack you see here is the result.
  
  Here's what Mark Twain thinks: "The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curlous thing and unaccountable. This form of stupidity is confined to no community, to no nation; it is universal. The fact is the human race is not only slow about borrowing valuable ideas, it sometimes persists in not borrowing them at all."
  
  "Take the German stove, for instance, to the uninstructed stranger it promises nothing; but he will soon find that it is a masterly performer. --"
  
  "Americans could adopt this stove; but no, we stick placidly to our own fearful and wonderful inventions of which there is not a rational one in the lot. The American wood stove is a terror. It has to be watched all the time. It warms no part of the room but its own part, breeds headaches, and suffocation, and when your wood bill comes in you think you have been supporting a volcano."
  
  "Consider these aspects of the Masonry Stove. One firing is enough tor the day; the cost is next to nothing; the heat produced is the same all day, instead of too hot and too cold by turns. Its surface is not hot; you can put your hand on it anywhere and not get burnt, yet one is as comfortable in one part of the room as another."
  
  

  
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