Holidays, well, we have had a few. Friends of ours asked
where the best place to take a dog in the UK was. Easy answer for me. Coquet
Cottages in the beautiful Northumberland. I have travelled all over the globe
and for sure all over the UK and for me Northumberland is the best place to
visit if you want pure beauty how it was meant to be. How is it should be if
not for modern lives.
I have stayed with Coquet Cottages before many times and I am
never disappointed. I told our friends
about the company as really, I would never be ashamed to take anyone to their
stunning properties. I mean anyone. They are pure luxury and the best thing is?
You can take your dog. In fact, we went a couple of years ago and took three
dogs, as they were all guide dogs.
There were three of us who were blind and one sighted our
Son bless him. I know it would not be typical of a wonderful holiday for him. What
teen would want to come with his parents and their friend? But he loved the house.
As did we. The best thing about it was the welcome. As we entered the front
door, firstly the clean smell was so appreciated. I hate walking into a rental
home and smelling dirty carpets, foisty wall paper, and old books. Yep, we have
surely all stayed in a place like that? I always go for at least four stars
since my experiences with not so clean properties; I’m not talking filthy, just
not clean. Well, Coquet is not only clean, but immaculate. You know what was in
the entrance hall? A brand new looking dog dish, a bag of doggy treats and even
doggy doodle bags .I mean, who would think of our pets like that? Oh the house
was beautiful. Wood floors right through
out. Not a speck of dust anywhere. The glass was polished even we blindies
could see our reflection through there. Haha.
Well, OK, not quite, but it was so clean. The rooms were
huge too and there was nothing we needed as everything including toiletries were
provided. Oh our bedroom was massive. Four times the size of ours back home.
The back garden was interesting up the hill there was a
great seating and table to chill out with the fragrance of the sea air. As for
our Northumberland beaches, they as I have written about before, are the best
and cleanest in the UK. Miles and miles of golden if not white sands. Quaint
little fishing villages and masses of history. Unspoiled air for sure. If you
want to get away from life, but need to be close enough if you want to visit
modern Britain. If you have a car, you are no more than half an hour to the
best shops I would say in Europe and for sure night life, vast amounts of pubs
and eateries sports areas attractions too. But just to get away from the bright
lights, your holiday should be in Northumberland. As long as you don’t fall so
much in love with it, you all move there as the best thing about the holiday is
the remoteness. Also of course, don’t forget the accents and you will hear your
first true Northumbrian accent as soon as you pick up the phone and talk to the
lovely friendly staff.
There is nothing better than to hear that, its home from
home to me.
If I were rich and had a holiday home I was to rent out, for
sure I would ask Coquet cottages to care for it for me, as they are so
professional and honest.
Some would shiver in fear at the thought of us all on holiday,
with our fifteen year old not being able to see, well, for us it’s an exciting
adventure. Sadly we did depend on our Son a little, but not for cooking,
cleaning etc. that we can do. We used our guide dogs to find our way around the
little narrow streets and asked the locals directions. Our boy read the menus
if we went for a meal, but the rest we really tried to work hard and remember
how to get to places we have been before earlier in our stay that week. To go
on a holiday where there is no stress or work for us is sadly impossible. Even
if we go to a holiday where there is no cleaning cooking and so on, we still
are aware we need to not get ourselves lost.
The best holiday abroad apart from our wonderful holiday in
the US, was when we went to the Caribbean. Wow, that was pleasure. But the most
relaxed we as blind people had was when we cruised last year. But stuck on a
ship, OK, you don’t get lost much, but it can get a little stale as especially
when you can’t really get off the ship and view the scenery. We did take in the wonderful Norwegian land
though. And the sea air with no housework to do for a week was a delight.
When we stayed at our beautiful Coquet cottage, we kept it so
clean as we were just so grateful that they allowed three dogs. So didn’t want
to take advantage of their hospitality.
I know of sighted people who leave their accommodation in a
right mess. I could never do that.
As for holidays this year? Well, our children have graced us
with their time and given us a week of their busy schedule to have I hope, a
lovely week with us. It’s coming up to
our wedding Anniversary, so a gift for sure is to get all of our kids together.
My Son has just got in from college, ate, and now back out.
He is going to get his exhaust fixed. Last time I will hear him leave the house
or approach it.
I asked him how much work he got done. Oh heck, why do I
even care? Seriously, this parenting is tough. He answers so relaxed. “A bit!”
A bit?
Really, what kind of answer is that? He has loads to do in
two days and he is answering a bit? I said to him, he could do some this
afternoon as he isn’t working, his answer, no Mum. I have to have some me time.
Me time? When exams are occurring? No, no no
Not sure what to cook tonight for dinner, really fed up of
arranging menu’s every day. It’s more difficult trying to work out what to feed
my men than actually cooking the food itself. Oh I hate kitchen work. My Niece
loves to bake, as does our eldest daughter. How can anyone love to cook? My Son
says he likes it too, but never really cooks for the family, to be fair, I always
interupt too when he tries to start something, but the odd time he has cooked
for me only, he does a fantastic job. I have been showing him how to do different
meals of late and hopefully, he will remember what I have shown him as he will
be one day cooking for himself or his wife. My Husband is a much better cook
than me. By a mile, but it’s because he doesn’t do it every day. If he did, I
think we would have the same three recipes every week. Haha. I didn’t say that.
Really I didn’t, now where is the delete button?
Right on that note, before I get naughty, I will leave you
with a few questions, perhaps you can ask these to your children as you are
driving to our secret kingdom of Northumberland?
Q: Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana,
Nene, Nine, and Noon. What is the fifth daughter’s name?
A: If you answered Noonno, you are wrong. It’s Mary!
Q: How can a pants pocket be empty
and still have something in it?
A: It can have a hole in it.
Q: In a one-story pink house,
there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink
chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink!
What color were the stairs?
A: There weren’t any stairs; it was a one story house!
Q: A dad
and his son were riding their bikes and crashed. Two ambulances came and took
them to different hospitals. The man’s son was in the operating room and the
doctor said, “I can’t operate on you. You’re my son.”
How is that possible?
A: The doctor is his mum!
Q: What is the longest word in the
dictionary?
A: Smiles, because there is a mile between each‘s’
Q: If I drink, I die. If I eat, I
am fine. What am I?
A: A fire!
Q: What travels around the world
but stays in one spot?
A: A stamp!
Q: If I have it, I don’t share it.
If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?
A: A Secret.
Q: What kind of tree can you carry
in your hand?
A: A palm!
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