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Editor's Notes
This month, let us take you on a Unique adventure...
Imagine a world where the flowers are budding into bloom, the birds are singing a song of spring and their woodland friends are stirring from their winter slumber to feel the first rays of summer. In your hand you grasp the keys to a secret home hidden in the most inspiring of settings. When you turn the key and push open the door, the fairies vanish as if by magic leaving a sparkling haven where a basket of scrumptious treats and crackling fire invite you inside...
Let these homes tell you their own story of enchantment.
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LATEST LUXURY SELF-CATERING PROPERTIES
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Near Bath and Castle Combe
Sleeps up to 2 guests
Step through the looking glass and enter an oasis of lush verdure and unparalleled splendour at this luxury self-catering home. Sir Walter Raleigh's old hunting lodge has been transformed into a romantic retreat, dripping with chandeliers and tropical plants.
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Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sleeps up to 2 guests
Blending a love of style with a dose of ingenuity results in something truly magical at Filly Island. This cottage is a melange of the industrial and the romantic, all sat upon a tiny island accessed by a humpback bridge - where the grass really is greener on the other side!
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Near Perranporth, Cornwall
Sleeps up to 2 guests
Once home to three little pigs, this 1860s Cornish piggery has been given an injection of electric romance. A secret and stylish retreat for the city surfer, Libertine is sublimely set amidst a peaceful milieu of pretty woodland and within easy reach of the coast.
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FAIRYTALE ESCAPES FOR FAMILIES
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Sandwich Bay, Kent
Sleeps up to 4 guests
The Restoratory is a resplendent Tudor-style house boasting Designer's Guild fabrics, literary-inspired art work and intriguing artefacts peppered throughout. With an enviable location right on the beach, families will make memories here to last forever.
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Bosham, West Sussex
Sleeps up to 9 guests
A warm welcome awaits at this sophisticated family home with south-facing views over Chichester harbour and beyond. Bosham is one of the prettiest villages on the south coast and steeped in history, making a summer holiday spot fitting for the Famous Five.
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Birlingham, Worcestershire
Sleeps up to 6 guests
Ever dreamed of gleefully shrugging off your grown-up guise and skipping into the realms of a childhood fairy tale without a care in the world? Welcome to Pollyanna; a whimsical Cotswold's cottage plucked straight from the pages of a storybook!
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This spectacular wedding venue is set on the edge of the Cotswolds within 500 acres of private grounds including enchanted woodland, boating lake and Alice in Wonderlandesque gardens (pruned by designers to the aristocracy), all bound by a crumbling castle.
The Lost Orangery promises to make dreams of a fairy tale wedding come true. Holding up to 250 guests, why would you say 'I do' anywhere less?
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"Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures..."
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
There is still time to book your luxury summertime escape and ensure you give your family an Enid Blyton summer holiday they'll want to write home about. From hideaway boltholes for two, to luxury family homes and large country retreats big enough to invite the cousins along, contact our friendly bookings team today who can tell you what's still available and find the summer break you deserve.
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