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The Spring Season is in full swing --perfect timing for Anne's impromptu weekend trip to the Wickwood Inn in Saugatuck, Michigan.  She returned happy, relaxed, and further convinced that bed and breakfasts attract the sweetest people on earth.  She met the most wonderful Mid Westerners, and has invited them all to the Martine Inn for a reunion. Way-to-go, Anne!

Don is presently loading up his rig with the 1950 MG TD, Johnny Von Neuman Special, for the Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Sonoma Raceway this weekend.  The racetrack will be celebrating the 60th Anniversary...

Winter Gardens

Creating and maintaining winter gardens that produce flowers is always a challenge.  We are fortunate at the Martine Inn to have a climate that is temperate throughout the year with non freezing temperature in the winter and moderate temperature throughout the remainder of the year, never getting above 80 degrees.  This winter the cymbidiums are blooming earlier than usual and each of the orchid like blooms lasts about a month so they make great floral displays.  Some of our camellias are beginning to bloom also with their large colorful blooms.  The brilliant colors of the...

Why Antiques at the Martine Inn?

Antiques may be inanimate objects, but they tell some great stories.  For five generations each  piece at the Martine Inn had been very special to somebody.  As the objects were passed from person to person they were cherished, cared for, protected from fire, flood, war, disrepair, and the dump.  One cannot help but feel priveleged just to see and use these precious items.  A candlewick trimmer, for instance, tells us how important candlelight was to prior generations.  If the wick was too long, the candle would burn too fast.  Candles were handmade in the autumn, when the...

Lonely Planet

In this blog post we would like to step back for a moment and let Lonely Planet magazine do the talking for us: 

“…beautifully old fashioned, the sort of place you go to for a rest-cure.  Billowy curtains, a 70-year-old piano player who doesn’t look a day over 40, and a family of seals right across it.  Like, right across it, babies and all.  What do you say about a place like this?”

The magazine went on to call us “fantastic, old-fashioned and romantic” on a later page, a declaration we are very happy to accept.

But the article also does poetic justice to our surrounding...