It's a phone app!

We’ve designed this for guests so that while you’re here, you can have a portable guide to things to do around Rye while you’re on the trot – from gardens, beaches and historic homes and special events, through to handy info like the nearest pharmacist, Doctor’s surgery and ATM machine.

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You can also send an e-postcard to friends and family (we love snail mail, but just sometimes buying a card slips the mind…).

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But hang on, there’s more – you can even book rooms directly through the app.

So if you’re coming to stay with us, go download it!

Here’s the article, or follow the link!

The Little Black Book of Hotels is available now in Hardback from Amazon, currently at £10..

Check out the piece! Also don’t forget that if you are visiting from London, the high speed rail line to Ashford cuts the journey time to 90 minutes….

Now we are in store for the first ever Battle Contemporary Fine Art Fair, a prestigious new event to showcase artwork from London and the South East and which kicks off in September. We’ll be hosting a satellite sculpture exhibition at The George in Rye as part of the fair, so watch this space for more soon.

Ahead of this, here are our recommendations of great places our guests can see and buy art in 1066 country:

The Rye Art Gallery - just down the road and hosts work of regional and national importance. We buy quite a lot of art for the hotel here which we’re always asked about.

Weekend Gallery -  gallery representing really diverse mix of artists in Hastings which runs an international art exchange programme with a gallery in Idaho.

Hop Gallery - Really champions local East Sussex artists through a very fast-moving and dynamic programme of exhibitions. In Lewes, well worth a daytrip from Rye!

Burton Gallery - another one in Hastings. Really accessible range of illustration, paintings and applied arts.

The Towner - cutting edge visual arts centre in a stunning modernist venue in Eastbourne, which has links with the Tate. Pictured above.

If you know of any more great galleries, do get in touch by leaving a comment.

Artist Anthony Gormley’s Critical Mass, one of his most famous works, is landing on the roof of beautiful cultural venue the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill. You can expect 60 lifesize cast iron bodies looking out on you from above – unsettling stuff!

Photo: Nigel Green

Highly recommended, and on the roof between 8th May to August 2010. The venue, De La Warr Pavillion, is fast becoming one of the most important arts centres in the south of England – check out their programme at http://www.dlwp.com/

If you’re coming to The George in Rye in the next few weeks and want to get cosy, we’ve plenty to get you going:

- DVDs to enjoy in-room.
- Cashmere-covered hot waterbottles
- Lambswool blankets
- Vintage Penguin paperpacks
- Big mugs of hot choc
- Warming baths with REN rose oil

Check out all 10 hotels here and come down if you fancy warming up in deepest darkest February!

Jake and Dinos Chapman, who stirred up the British art scene in the 1990s and who went to school in Hastings, so their work is coming back home. We won’t pretend to be art critics; if you want an intro to their work, here’s an interview on YouTube from ArtPatrol TV:

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This is a great exhibition to have locally, so stop in if you fancy a trip over to hastings. More on the gallery website.