A Gold Award for 2011 from Visit England….

Every year here at Tredarrup we have our annual star rating from Visit England.  We maintain our properties to a high FOUR STAR, but this year we also achieved a GOLD AWARD for exceptional quality of accomodation and customer service which we are delighted with.

Both our properties, Mill Barn and Stable Cottage are popular with visitors that we have now seen for many years and those that visit for the first time.  And every year we add something new and ensure we do our best so that visitors have a great stay.   So to all our visitors we look forward to seeing you again or for the first time in 2011  ..

Mill Barn

Stable Cottage

Stable Cottage – flower and herb filled planters….

Every year at Tredarrup we maintain and add more to our properties with something new for both our first time and regular visitors….
This year we made changes to Stable Cottage both inside and out….new sofas, big TV.  And for outside a woodland patio and a replant of all the planters in the courtyard…  Gardening here is always a bit of a battle, not only do you have the normal slug and snail attacks – how they love fresh new plants – but for us it is also the chickens…they just don’t make good gardeners!  Although they do a great job with clearing slugs and snails give them a patch of earth and they are in there digging away and turfing out any plants in their path… So next to the decision of what flowers and herbs  we should plant for our guests to use and enjoy was how to keep the chickens away…but we seem to have managed!!  

A new look courtyard

Herb and flower filled........

Plenty to choose froma round the courtyard

So the summer has begun !!!

A very busy Easter with lots of visitors to Mill Barn and Stable Cottage  and now we are enjoying this truly fantastic weather.  Today is so hot…and they say it’s set to last over the weekend at least (some last minute still available for next week) !!
Weather that has heralded the annual arrival of our Tredarrup swallows, gradually they’ve started to appear , three today when walking in the field, the males are back checking out old nests ready for the females to arrive and start with their first clutches.  They are such a wonderful sight and sound, the fact that every year they can find their way back from Africa to the same eaves is quite amazing.  Many a visitor has enjoyed the chatter of them lined up on the telephone line and watching them of an evening swooping around catching insects as they go and on occasion paying a visit inside Mill Barn.  We normally have 4 or more pairs…here’s hoping for 2010 which results in a total of 40 or more…..pure magic.   

Tredarrup’s Stable Cottage – we’ve been making some changes !!!

The early part of this year was not only a time of us being snowbound, as were many, but was also a time for us to make some changes with a new look website and to the properties themselves.
Stable Cottage now has a great new patio in our woodland (as well as the existing yard at the front), a door that gives you a great window into the woodland, field and beyond…..  And also inside new sofas, and 40″ flat wide screen TV…… so we hope for those of you that have been before it has only made the property even better and for all our visitors we’re sure you’ll enjoy that bottle of Camel Valley looking out across the valley on a lovely bright evening as the sun goes down…..    Happy Holidays…..  

Looking in from the new patio

The new patio....

A new look inside....

Lokking out from in....

Tredarrup the Movie

Happy New Year, welcome to 2010…
As with everyone we have had a heap of snow..and we thought you might like to see around in our Tredarrup Movie.  More to come soon….with much happening here at Tredarrup in 2010, some changes in the cottages, a new website, more footage and regular news ….

Love the track by MGMT

The Great British Holiday

With ‘staycation’ being the new media phrase this year, what with the economy, recession and the Euro, this summer has been truly busy…  Every year Cornwall is a favourite holiday destination with aprx 5.5million visitors which for a county with a population of aprx 500,000 that’s a lot of extra people – but then there is so much here to do and see.   Whatever the weather, holiday time is about being away from it all, enjoying where you are and spending time together – amongst other things.   We as a nation have enjoyed the great British holiday for many years, caravans, camping and B&Bs in times when flights abroad just did not exist.   Tredarrup has been a place of holidays for almost 50 years.  Once a B&B, it now provides self-catering accommodation in the old barns – Mill Barn and Stable Cottage.  We have been reminded of that this week with one of our cottage visitors being a former B&B guest with many happy memories going back to the 70s.  So with 50 years of great holiday memories from either those that visited as a B&B or our self-catering guests that now keep coming back here’s to many more.

North Cornwall’s great beaches

North Cornwall is Britain’s most popular surfing coast, with waves for all levels and weather! Near Tredarrup we have so many great beaches to enjoy during your stay and with the forecast predicting a better summer what a way to spend a Cornish holiday.   Polzeath  in the Camel Estuary is well used by bathers and surfers and is regularly cleaned. It’s broad sweep of Hayle Bay at low tide makes the sand perfect for castles and beach games and you can find  many fish and seashore animals in the rock pools. Popular. Daymer Bay, beautiful family beach at all stages of the tide.  Good walks along cliff tops. Trebarwith Strand, dramatic sandy beach only accessible at low tide. Excellent cliff walks. Crackington Haven (one-time haunt of smugglers), small sandy beach (recently damaged in flash floods). Harbour Cove, short walk from Polzeath, fine sand and sheltered waters. Constantine Bay, massive sand dunes, rare wildlife and rock pools. Portcothan,long narrow beach, good sand at low tide.  Good walks.  A great swimming cove is Port Quinn, on your way to Polzeath.
Also, Sandymouth, Duckpool, Nothcott Mouth, Trevone, Harlyn, Bobby’s Bay, Constantine Bay, Treyarnon, Bude-Crooklets, Bude – Summerleaze and Whipsiderry  (have a sea water pool and good lifeguards), Widemouth Bay has good easy access with a mile of flat sand. Porth nr Newquay.  And recommended Porthpean nr St Austell, Porthmear St Ives and Mawgan Porth nr Newquay. It is advisable to check the tide times when visiting some beaches.  Aslo try Bude’s Sea Pool at Summerleaze beach – open for the season with lifeguards present each day.

One of our many beaches

Spring has really sprung…and our swallows have arrived..

As hard as I try, my posts are not as often as they should be…  So much going on, so much to see and a very busy Easter with lots of visitors to Mill Barn and Stable Cottage and enjoying this truly fantastic weather..  Today was so hot…and they say it’s set to last !!
Weather that has heralded the annual arrival of our Tredarrup swallows, gradually they’ve started to appear and then on Friday when showing our new guests arround the males were back checking out old nests ready for the females to arrive and start with their first clutches.  They are such a wonderful sight and sound, the fact that every year they can find their way back from Africa to the same eaves is quite amazing.  Many a visitor has enjoyed the chatter of them lined up on the telephone line and watching them of an evening swooping around catching insects as they go and on occasion paying a visit inside Mill Barn.  We normally have 4 or more pairs…here’s hoping for 2009 which results in a total of 40 or more…..pure magic.   

Catching up…..

As ever blog time often passes us by, so apologies for lack of recent posts.
A busy time of year and now the spring has really sprung, the most fantastic weather and all is coming alive – the daffodils, wild garlic (how I love the smell as you pass by and underfoot), lambs in the field, and young cattle feeeling the warmth of the sun for the first time –  and how us humans are enjoying the sunshine!
Many hours spent sorting out the veg patch for 2009 – those who have stayed with us before and spent time chatting over the fence and making me cups of tea will know how every year my best intentions become a battle so this year I have resorted to weed cover to save on labour and the onions are planted along with new asparagus and the seeds are sown…so here’s hoping for 2009’s harvest.
Chickens continued to provide eggs daily over the winter and are now back up to 10 a day so plenty for our visitors to enjoy – lots of chicken antics to be posted soon, they are loving the sun on their wings and eager to get out of the shed in the morning.
People enjoying all year round breaks in the cottages with those this weekend being  truly blessed with arrival of spring – even if the clocks don’t change quite yet.  Easter is soon around the corner and May Day’s Obby Oss…..
More words and new pictures soon and for those of you that are new to our blog you can visit our posts on our previous blog.

 

 

 

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