Devon Self Catering.net endeavours to offer it’s visitors a comprehensive range of self catering holidays, and more than a brief mention should be made about the excellent self catering facilities available on many of Devon’s farms, which remain one of the biggest draws to the area.
Spending a holiday ‘Down on the Farm’ has been popular with children and adults alike throughout the decades, and many of today’s grandparents remember listening as spellbound children to Enid Blyton’s enchanting ‘Five on Finniston Farm’, along with similar stories of endless sunny days and breathtaking adventures deep in the countryside.
The magical combination of a holiday in the fresh air, with fresh food, and furry animals has always been, and always will be, the perfect remedy for those suffering from ‘too much work and not enough play’ or even those who only imagine they’re suffering from it! What proud mother hasn’t dreamed of preparing a good wholesome meal for her hungry family on a hot gleaming aga cooker in her own rambling farmhouse kitchen, complete with corn dollies, oak beams, and bright red geraniums on the window sill? And weary fathers too, find themselves fantasizing about sinking into deep cosy sofas after a hard day’s trudge behind the plough in Autumn-time, or pushing their burning muscles to the limit as they finish constructing a giant corn stack in Summer. There’s no doubt about it, farm holidays bring out the romantic dreamer in all of us, young and old alike.
Self catering accommodation on farms has never been better than it is today, with many farms frequently attracting multiple ‘stars’ or excellence awards from the English Tourist Board and other similar organisations. In many of today’s superbly appointed farms you will find facilities such as satellite TV, indoor swimming pools, saunas and games rooms commonplace, whilst outside it’s quite probable there’ll be landscaped gardens, a fishing lake, and a children’s adventure area, to make your holiday that little bit special.
Many of these ‘agreeable extras’ have been made possible due to improved subsidies, and active encouragement from the EU for farmers to diversify, and extend into new business areas, other than purely working the farm, and many farmers have taken up this challenge most successfully, turning struggling farms into outstanding business ventures. Some have turned their farms into specialist tourist attractions, such as golf courses, adventure parks and country life museums, but the vast majority have opted to simply improve upon what they have always excelled at in the past, and that is, to offer first class holiday accommodation, both self catering and B & B, in a friendly and therapeutic environment.
Being placed as they are, in the temperate South West
peninsular, Devon farmers are able to offer what is probably the finest
selection of self catering farmhouse accommodation in Britain, and a
visit to one of their many comprehensive and informative websites, via
Devon Self Catering.net, should soon convince any prospective
holidaymaker that a self catering holiday on one of Devon’s
numerous and inviting farms is a very tempting proposition indeed.
