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By LISAG. CURRIE
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Charles and Marianne Wilson have added a special touch to bed and breakfast in Rappahannock County.
It’s not that the bed and breakfast stay includes things like a fine five-course meal prepared upon reservation, or the high English tea on the gazebo, or the wide assortment of fine English and American antiques for sale, or the only singlebedded room in the country, or the quaint and private cottage-room or the sense of immediate comfort and hospitality.
These things and others similar are found in bed and breakfast establishments all around the county.
But, there’s something unique about Thistle Hill.
Located just a few miles from Boston Store on U.S. 522, the yellow estate-like home stands bold agaiSst winter’s grey, spring’s green, autumn’s colors and summer’s heat.
“The house is only 20-years-old,” Marianne Wilson said, sitting in the comfortable and spacious kitchen amid her collectible thistle pattern china, set appropriately for a Wilson English breakfast, usually several courses coming complete with coffee and tea.
“We’ve worked hard to make it look old,” she said with a smile, adding the house is quite deceiving in look and often keeps guests or friends guessing about its age — looking old but with all the amenities of the modern age.
“We just made it comfortable and we invite others to come share it with us,” she said, passing fresh biscuits prepared by her husband, coowner and Thistle Hill chef, Charles.
A well-traveled couple, the Wilson’s moved from Florida in search of the ideal location for a bed and breakfast site. Looking across the state, the couple just “fell” into the property they now call home.
“We had nearly given up finding a place when we drove up U.S. 522 v/from Culpeper and saw the ‘For Sale’ sign in front of this home,” Mrs. Wilson said, adding that as someone who was once a Massachusetts Bostonian, she laughed when passing Boston’s sign, never imagining she would again be a Bostonian — this time in Virginia.
“I had traveled through Europe, using B&B establishments often,” Mr. Wilson said. The retired pharmacist and doctor of reconstructive surgery explained that while studying the culinary arts — his life’s hobby and passion — in Italy he was able to travel to many places throughout the European continent.
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