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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Food & Drink
The Best Beachside Nosh in the UK
What do you eat when you go to the beach? Sandwiches!
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Things To Do
Woodland Walkies Your Dog Wood Love
A trip through the woods can be a balm to the soul at any time of year. In the spring you can walk through carpets of wildflowers, and in summer you can enjoy their leafy coolness.
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Things To Do
Top Dog
Would you and your dog enjoy a holiday in hill country? Well in general, dogs love running about on hills and mountains, that’s why so many of them get jobs as rescue dogs or herding sheep.
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Places To See
Lulworth Cove, follow in a poet's footsteps
Follow in the footsteps of Keats, Hardy and Rupert Brooke as you step onto the beach and stroll hand in hand across the sand at Lulworth Cove.
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Devon’s Top Picnic Spots
In life, there are what we call ‘simple pleasures’ – things that cost next to nothing, but whose satisfying effects can turn an average day into a great one.
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Things To Do
The 2016 summer of sport. Not just for watching on TV...
The Olympics and Paralympics, the European Championships, The Open, Wimbledon, and the Tour de France - if you're someone who loves sport then this summer is going to be huge!
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Best Places To Enjoy A Picnic In Northumberland
National Picnic Week takes place form June 11th to June 19th, so what better way to celebrate than by grabbing your picnic baskets and blankets and heading outdoors.
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News
Reap the benefits of a self-catering holiday
When choosing a family friendly holiday, we appreciate that an all-inclusive option may seem the more appealing choice on paper - a holiday with no meals to prepare, somewhere for the kids to be entertained all day (by someone else) and possibly,
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Things To Do
Saxons and Vikings in Corfe Castle!
Saturday 7th May and 14th May - Saxons and Vikings descend upon the quiet little village of Corfe Castle.
Now, Corfe is probably best known for the dreadful events of 1646 in which Lady Bankes defended the Castle against Cromwell's men,
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Family Fun
Six games to play in the car on the way home
So the holiday is over, the car’s loaded up again and you and the family are facing the long drive home. Hours sitting still in a confined space can be every child’s (and adult’s) nightmare, but with a few fun games planned the miles will fly by.
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Places To See
Stately Treasures - Three of Norfolk's finest Halls
Norfolk has many grand houses set within its stunning countryside with so much to offer for a day out.
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Family Fun
The Flora Dance
Helston is a quaint old Cornish market town which sits nestled into a hillside, with its many narrow streets intermingled with higgledy-piggledy houses, walled gardens and interconnecting alleyways and, once a year, for hundreds of years, the town
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