We are delighted to announce that we have now taken ownership of Long Barn Holiday Cottages. It’s a very exciting time for us as a family and we look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful cottages in the near future....
We wish to let you all know that it is retirement time for us! We have recently agreed the sale of Long Barn and the new owners, Geoff and Hayley, have now taken over. We have so many happy memories from our eleven years of running the business and will especially miss greeting our guests when they arrive for their stay with us – many of whom we now regard as dear friends. Long Barn is...
Springtime is perfect for easy-going family baking, and pottering in the garden under the gentle sun. Whilst there is often rush to get something on the table, holidays offer time to discover the potential for growing and preparing food to be fun and immersive family activities. With this in mind, here are three delicious family-friendly home recipes: Eggless Easter Chocolate Cake, Indonesian-style...
Most of us have read or watched the fantasy epic the Lord of the Rings. A little hobbit named Frodo leaves his rural home and sets off on a dangerous journey far away, to hostile shadow lands with a magical ring in tow. During his journey he often misses his home, with its lush rolling hills, moreish ale, country cooking, pretty gardens, and chill way of life. This is exactly what it feels like leaving...
*IT’S CHRISTMAAASSSS * Sorry, had to get that out there. We love Christmas. But the festive period can be a hard nut to crack, what with our compulsion to share gifts, imbue our homes with illusive notions of ‘warmth’ and ‘festivity’, spark joy in our loved ones…the list goes on. Thanks to its forefather – Charles Dickens, not Mr Bublé— Christmastime...
