The Spire of Lloyd is smiling over the town of Kells with a red glow at the moment to celebrate the visit of Ambassador Luo Linquan to Kells and Chinese New Year. The Chinese Ambassador arrived in Kells to a warm welcome on Thursday January 19th. The action packed day included a walk around the gardens of Headfort House where there are a significant number of Chinese trees planted which were sent over a century ago to the Marquis of Headfort as a gift from China. Headfort Golf Club followed with a Red Carpet reception at the 19th hole and all Chains of Office were fully executed at the Civic offices with a reception and presentation of a local food hamper to the Ambassador. It was such a reminder of what wonderful local produce we have in the area surrounding us. We are so proud to support local, traceable quality produce at the hotel where possible including Tom Doherty's suasages, Hogans Turkey and Ryans Farm Lamb to name but a few. I hope that the amabassador enjoyed Chef Orlaith's acclaimed Currant Cake!
We had a wonderful time at the Meath Business and Tourism awards in Trim and delighted to have come away with the Award of 'Best Marketing and Sales Professional, well done Olivia! What made the occasion even better however was the amount of local providers that we deal with in different domains who scooped major awards recognising their hard work, vision and innovativeness in these hard times
Causey Farm deservedly came away with the overall 'Best in Tourism' title and we are thrilled for them. We work very closely with Causey since we incepted our 'For the Birds' package including their hilarious 'Learn to be the farmers wife' hen! Our joint promotion started with a joint outing to the Wedding Show at the Burlington five years ago when we brought a hen on our stand, named her 'Bridie the Bridal Hen' and we've never looked back since. What stole most attention that day apart from our unique weekend package in County Meath was when 'Bridie' decided to lay an egg in the middle of the Vera Wang fashion show, it was a different type of 'wang' experienced that day in the grand ballroom of the Burlington and I don't think we were ever invited back!
Speaking of egg laying creatures, the other major 'hat's off' on the night at the Awards went to Hogans Turkey's of Kells. I still remember as a child Mr.Hogan delivering coming to the back door with the turkey's drapsed over his shoulders. Well, delivery methods are slightly more conventional these days but Hogan's have still remained faithful to providing a superb product and we are delighted to have their name on our menu on a daily basis. I'm learning quite a bit about the 'Christmas Bird' myself at the moment having, 90 Free range turkeys at home for the festive table but that's another blog matter altogther, stay posted!
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