SHENVAL BED AND BREAKFAST ... GREEN, SERENE, UPLIFTING ...

SHENVAL ORGANIC B&B GUESTS’ TESTIMONIALS:
THEY JUST LOVED IT!

4th September, 2007. A very positive review from Caroline Hennessy, an Irish food writer for bibliocook.com who thought she had travelled incognito to our place last weekend. Serendipity would however lead us to discover her comments on the web just a couple of days after she had left us!... Here is what she writes about us in her "Visiting Scotland" web entry on 3rd September:
"This weekend, en route to a wedding in Scotland, we discovered another wonderful B&B. We flew in to Inverness on Friday and, after searching through Organicholidays.co.uk,  decided to spend the night at Shenval B&B.  After an afternoon snooze, an essential part of any holiday, we followed Pierre's advice and took a walk to Corrimony Cairn, just far enough to encourage enough appetite for dinner.
We sat down to the table with a pair of French birdwatchers, for a simple but substantial feed of Scottish specialities - haggis with clapshot, a mixture of turnip and potatoes, followed by Cranachan (a mixture of whipped cream, whisky, honey, and fresh raspberries topped with toasted oatmeal). With dinner, the four of us shared a bottle of wine which we had brought along, sitting over tea and shortbread afterwards with Pierre and Christiane. A relaxed breakfast the following morning, complete with tattie scone and homemade bread, set us up nicely for the day ahead. As we left to drive to Lossiemouth, Pierre and Christiane stood at the door to wave us off, making the whole experience feel more like a visit to friends than a necessary evil. Money well spent".

My husband Terry saved the best for last on this trip. Shenval is a deeply healing center of beauty, serenity, warmth and kindness. Thank you Christiane and Pierre. See you next May.
Kathleen Lay, Berryville, Virginia, USA

Great welcome, great hosts, great breakfast… Great!!! B&B as it should always be!
Robin and Hillary Dow, Torphins, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Thank you very much for your warm hospitality and kindness when we stayed in your place. Breakfast was very delicious. The Glen Affric was very beautiful. We are looking forward to seeing you again.
Yoshiko Kawada and Rie Momono, Japan

By your warm welcome, your kindness, your availability, your pertinent advice, you greatly contributed to the success of our Scottish holiday… Everything was a success. And as teachers we have no hesitation in giving you full marks!  Especially as you kept on spoiling us with your lovingly prepared cuisine. Your colourful and refined dishes were just as pleasant to the eye as they were to our taste buds. We carefully noted down everything we ate... This fed lively conversations during the journey back home and made the traffic jams barely noticeable!  What a shame that Shenval should be so far away from our Limousin! It goes without saying that we will only have words of praise for you with those who, in our opinion, are worthy of such a memorable holiday stay!
Alain and Babette Vermeulen, Saint Sulpice les Feuilles, France

Comfortable and at home: that’s how we felt. Your little love nest is so pretty and cosy. I would so much love to come and see you again and climb that snow-clad summit… What a marvellous country you live in!!! The beauty of the scenery, the peace, the fragrances, the local folk’s kindness, the landscape but, above all, the French couple who welcomed us so warmly in their own home. What a joy, what a laugh, and all the smiles and the delicious herbal teas… I have now become an evening herbal tea addict! We have enjoyed 16 marvellous days with you. Your genuine hospitality made us feel at home. I’d better stop here: looks like I’m about to write a love story… 
Michel Langevin and Sylvie Gagnon, Saint Télésphore, Québec

... Your succulent haggis and potato scones will always stay in our minds ... Thanks again for your very pleasant welcome and cheerful hospitality.   
Isabelle Ronneau, Belgium

Admirable – must be said – your hospitality. Pierre drove me to restaurant and afterwards back with a detour to show the mountains with fresh snow … And your invitation for tea in the evening! I had been so tired by walking a too long distance that day…
Rolf  Freudenthal, Germany

It was fantastic! I don’t want to leave!
Nick, Porstmouth

We have a lot of wonderful things to tell about you and Scotland to our friends here and a lot of photographs to show them.
   Carmela and Dan, Ciutadella de Franc, Menorca

I hope I will come back sometime, because I had a really great time!
Irene Undheim-Karrer, Norway

We miss you and your meal and the Caledonian Pine Forest… It was great experience to visit Scotland and to stay with you.  We definitely want to visit again. We succeeded to make the “Shenval scones” and we sometimes eat them while we look at the picture of Scotland. We miss you and the Pine forest.
Yumi, Manabu, Hana and Mana Ikeda, Japan

Our evening with you was marvellous and captivating. Thank you for sharing this with us. Your advice was very useful and helped us discover magnificent nooks and crannies.
André and Marianne Fischer, Genève, Switzerland

We will never forget your welcome. It was family friendly and we felt at home… Your environment is very pleasant and attractive. Thanks to you we were able to discover picturesque and unexpected places.
Francine and Yves Demerville, Noeux, France

I often dream of returning to your glens with my artist’s sketch books. And of sampling your delightful organic breakfasts...   
Annette Delmas, Duras, France

Again we would like to say thank you for the wonderful time we spent with you in Scotland.
Juliane Krüger, Germany

Of all the precious and delightful memories we now cherish the best one is of our all too short stay with you. It was one of those very rich and intense moments one would wish would last for ever.
Thank you for your warm welcome. It proved to be the foretaste of an exceptional Scottish holiday.
   Bernard and Francine Cortes, Béziers, France

We would like to thank you for your kind welcome, which helped us recharge our batteries. We shall keep excellent memories of our stay in Shenval and we sincerely hope we’ll retun next year.
Jean-Charles Banvoy and Gaëtan, France

We have had a wonderful trip and you greatly contributed to its success! Thanks again for your welcome, your kindness and your advice.
Robb and Audrey Storar, Toulouse, France

It was a very good time in Scotland. Thank you again for the very nice hospitality. We are sure to come back in the future.
   Simone and Jörg Frankowski, Berlin, Germany 

Thanks again for this marvellous stay. We have warm memories of your welcome. Your country is really superb, and so are our pictures/ Unforgettable memories. We will return!!!
  Mimi and Bernard Gay-Para, Saint Blaise, France

A quick word to thank you again for your warm welcome. Glen Affric was a revelation for us. If we come back, this will be top of our list.
Audrey and Fred Knauf, France

I thank you very much for the delicious stay on your premises. I particularly liked the Scottish breakfast, and certainly we come back again for another holiday...your home is very cosy and welcome very friendly - thank you again .
Jean-Pierre and Odette Deneuville, Saint-Cloud, France

Thank you for looking after us so well.
Shirley and Frank Howell, Edinburgh

We have fully enjoyed our stay in your beautiful area and loved your warm welcome, the evening fireside chat. We feel nostalgic when we recall your breakfasts.
Claudine, Jean-Louis, Nicolas, France

We would like to thank you for two very warm days (both weather-wise and spiritually) spent with you. Your advice proved invaluable…
Julie and Cédric Warrillow, Thoiry, Switzerland