After a special birthday celebration walk with friends up and around the river valley, 8 miles in exhausting heat, we stopped at the inn to see if we could get a meal before heading home. Sadly we were informed that they were fully booked. So we went back to the car, only to find the car keys were no longer in the rucksack! YIKES! We assumed (and sincerely hoped) we'd left them during our refreshment stop at the Royal Oak in Withypool...and not in the river during one of many cooling paddles! With no mobile signal at Tarr, we relayed our issue to the lady behind the bar of the Inn who immediately rang the Royal Oak for us and even asked whether, if the keys were there, they could accommodate us for food as it would be quite late by the time we'd get there on foot - they too were fully booked. But, after quite a while of waiting for the Oak to hunt, and find (yey!) the keys, the lady at the Inn squeezed us in for food and then offered a member of staff to take one of us back to the Oak to pick up the keys as it was getting late and we were now losing the light. She had even said that if the key's weren't found, she'd take us all back home to Taunton. As anyone who has lost their car/house keys knows, it is a hugely stressful and frustrating situation to be in. But the staff at the Inn really went the extra mile to show their support and help as much as they could. It looked like our lovely day could have been ruined and remembered as a bit of a disaster. Instead, it is perhaps even more memorable because of what happened, but in a nice way - where total strangers go out their way to help those who need it. We are so very grateful. Thank you from us all.
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