Welcome to our Holiday Blog
Enjoy reading through articles written by the Original Cottages team. There’s plenty here to keep you interested and inspired, with hot tips on what to see and do, where to eat and of course, recommendations of our favourite cottages to stay in! So get stuck in and let our ideas help you plan your next cottage holiday. We’d also love to hear from you, do get in touch at hello@originalcottages.co.uk and let us know about the amazing UK places you think we should write about.
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Things To Do
Blackwell House
For those of you that are interested in the Arts and Craft movement a visit to Blackwell House is a must. The Arts and Craft movement was inspired by the ideas of John Ruskin and William Morris with a revival of traditional handicrafts.
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The Loveliest Spot That Man Hath Found
As an occupant of a rather flat county in the east of England, I have to admit that apart from one trip to Scotland, I have not ventured much further north than Leeds during my time on the planet.
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How I do love Thee...
‘Let me count the ways’, well one way is to parcel up a romantic weekend away in a gorgeous country cottage. The recipe is perfectly simple.
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Four Go Mad in Dorset
Dorset, a place I drive past on my way to other western counties, sad to say I have never stopped and visited, something I intend to put right very shortly.
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Things To Do
Lashings of Ginger Beer
Did you know some of the best Famous Five books such as ‘Five on Treasure Island’, ‘Five Go to Mystery Moor’ and ‘Five Have a Mystery to Solve’ were based in Dorset?
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Places To See
Tour de Norfolk
Norfolk has the highest concentration of medieval churches in the world, 659 of them in fact, and I have set myself the challenge of viewing at least a few of them by bicycle during my short break in the county.
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The Dragons Shall Rise
Wales, ‘Land of my Fathers’ so the national anthem goes and you couldn’t get anything more masculine than rugby about which the Welsh are passionate and my all male household too. So, as a significant male birthday looms on the horizon, what bette
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Places To See
Autumnwatch - The Next Episode
After the BBC TV programme ‘Springwatch’ was filmed at the RSPB Reserve at Minsmere, I have to confess that I have totally fallen in love with Suffolk. But it is admiration from afar as I have never really been to Suffolk before other than for an
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Places To See
Yorkshire Revisited
I last went to Yorkshire as an undergraduate to study at the University of Leeds; this was in the days before students had cars, so opportunities to explore this fabulous county were necessarily pretty limited to a few occasional excursions into t
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Property Spotlight
My Cornwall featuring Burncoose House
Falmouth has to be my all time favourite place in Cornwall; to me it represents that fusion of classic Cornish harbour town with the exotic trading connections of times gone by.
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Red Squirrels on Red Bank
Red Squirrels are one of the UK's best loved species and thanks to careful conservation and habitat management numbers appear to be on the rise.
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Places To See
A Journey Through the Garden of England
I have viewed the Kent scenery flying past my window on my way to foreign climes on countless occasions, and I thought it was about time I spent a few days in this county; the little of which I have seen has always intrigued me.
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