伝統的な休日のコテージ-居心地の良い居心地の良い

I'm Londoner and Bob is from the West Midlands. I fell in love with Cornwall when I was 13 and Bob shares my passion for this beautiful part of the world.

We are both now retired - I was a Press Officer, a high stress but enjoyable job and Bob was an Orchestral musician.

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We have rented many holiday cottages over the years from the tatty to the luxurious and we wanted a cottage that we could make homely but no so grand that guests were afraid to come through the front door with their shoes on.

We viewed several properties in this area from "fixer- uppers" to rather posh but all very nice indeed. We had driven past the entrance to Tregoodwell many times on trips to the Moor and wondered what it was like so, when Bill's came on the market we had to see it. As soon as we walked in we knew it was right for us because it felt friendly - which probably sounds crazy but I'm sure you will know what I mean from your own experience of buying or renting a home

Over the years we have had many lovely guests from all over the world and I'm happy to say that many regard Bill's as their second home and book again and again.

We love this part of Cornwall - the spectacular coast and the Moor and the fact that it is a short journey to many other wonderful places. We hope that if you holiday here you will love it too.

We loved the age of the house, the windows set in deep recesses and the sense that it had been a home to many, many generations.

The first floor would originally been the attic where the family slept ( the roof was raised many years ago) and access would have been via a ladder where the stairs are now. Downstairs would have consisted of one room - now divided into two. The entrance to the back extension would have been the original outside wall. Its fun to sit by the fire and wonder what it would have been like back in the day. The original tenant in the 18th Century is listed as: " a seamstress from Tintagel" - I often wonder how she could see to sew on a dark winter day with, probably, only one window on the ground floor in those days - she must have had wonderful eye sight!

We also love the view over the valley from the garden and the local strolls up onto the Moor especially in spring when the stone "hedges" are covered in snowdrops in February and violets, primroses and daffodils in March and April and seeing the lambs in the fields. We make sloe gin most autumns from the plentiful blackthorn hedges that grow in the lanes and woodlands.

We now have central heating and modern appliances of course and the house has been extended to create a third bedroom, bath room and modern kitchen but you can, of course roast chestnuts and toast crumpets on the fire in the winter so the break with tradition is not complete.