After an enjoyable stay in March, we decided on another long-weekend stay to combine an early Christmas celebration with our granddaughter's 12th birthday. Three of us headed up on Friday morning to drop in some food etc for the house's fridge and then continued on to Seville Estate for a wonderful lunch (highly recommended). The grandkids and our son-in-law followed on after school and, being a warm day, spent the afternoon in the solar-heated pool. On Saturday, we spent the whole day at the property and enjoyed a massive Christmas lunch in between pool activities.
As with our previous stay, the overall property is shabbyish and there were minor issues ie this time, one of the toilets was out of order ("dodgy" as advised in the Post-it note stuck on the door) and, whilst the barbecue was cleaned, there was no gas for it. However, these were overcome by the absolute comfort of the house, its privacy, quiet surrounds and the great beds which meant that we all slept very soundly.
We'd loaded up on carrots, apples and bread to feed the animals but, this time, there was only a small flock of very nervous goats who wouldn't come near us so most of the animal feed came home. The chooks partly made up for that and the kids spent time feeding them instead.
Aside from packing up, a late check-out gave us time to wander about the farm, feed the chooks and vainly attempt to feed the goats and quite a bit of time went on discussing our next visit. A great time was had by all.
