The Sarova Blog

New Cocktail Menu at The Bull Hotel

The Bull Hotel has just launched its brand new cocktail menu which is guaranteed to blow away those winter blues and get you ready for spring. The sophisticated and elegant Lounge is a perfect place to sample each of the six scrumptious new offerings. The true creation of a popular cocktail can be traced back to the nineteenth century. One early written reference to the term “cocktail” (as a drink based on spirits with other spirits and additives) can be found in an American magazine, published in May 1806. It stated that a “Cocktail is a stimulating liquor, composed of...

Nuffield Fitness and Wellbeing for The Bull hotel guests

Welcome to Nuffield Health, Fitness & Wellbeing Centre, Stoke Poges! Group Exercise Classes • Fully Equipped Fitness Area • Spa • Steam Room • Sauna • Swimming pool • Open 7 days a week • Free Parking • ASA swim lessons • Crèche • Café • Nursery • Relaxation Area Club Opening Times: Monday – Friday 6.30am – 11pm,Weekends 8am – 9pm Family Swim Times: Monday – Friday: 10.30am – 12noon & 1.00pm – 5.30pm, Weekends: 10am – 5.30pm Families welcome: Monday – Sunday: 8.30am-6.30pm Please contact the centre for café bar opening hours and Christmas opening hours.Classes can be...

The Abbey Valentines

Valentines day has been celebrated for hundreds of years, and although there are many conflicting ideas of how valentines day originated they all start from February 14th 269 concerning a Roman Priest who was sentenced to death for defying Claudius, after he abolished marriage. These days Valentines day has become very commercialized, but there have been many different traditions throughout the century.Hundreds of years ago in England, many children dressed up as adults on Valentine’s Day. They went singing from home to home. One verse they sang was: Good morning to you, valentine;Curl your locks as I do mine —Two...

The ‘Jack Shrimpton’ Bar at The Bull Before the Inns, Public Houses & Hotels were built, as we know them today, it was primarily the monasteries that gave lodging to travelers. However, an enormous strain was placed on such monasteries as the followers of Christianity increased and so a new type of establishment was needed. Monasteries and private entrepreneurs funded and set about building Inns. By the end of the 16th Century there were about 6000 across the country. The Bull Hotel was one of these, built in 1688 amid times that had just seen the Great Plague (1665) and...