Wicklow: Old school star fare

THE FIRST time I visited Hunter’s Hotel, I felt like a traveller from another century. Ireland’s oldest coaching inn dates from the 1600s, and wears its years like a handsome old dowager.

The yard is cobbled. The interiors are dark and fusty, hemmed in by thick stone walls and spotted with antiques. But it’s not all ancient history. Inside a leather-bound guestbook dating from 1895, I discovered a note written by Steven Spielberg.