The rural and cozy B & B “Beacon Bank Farm” in Staffordshire provides single and double rooms in the 250-year-old main building and four yurts – two located on the premises of the farm, the other two in a wooded area at a…
In the middle of the beautiful landscape of Kent there is close to the village of Elham a family farm which offers two shepereds huts, a touareg tent and some other spaces for putting up your own tent. There is lots of outstanding beautiful nature…
Frenchman’s Creek in Cornwall is a historic building (built around 1840), which was restored by the Landmark Trust and now can be rented as a holiday home. It is very secluded in the woods at the edge of the estuary of Helford River. Frenchman…
Libreria, die Londoner Buchhandlung, ist auf Wunsch des Eigentümers eine digitalfreie Zone. Laut einem Interview mit “The Observer” im Februar 2016 möchte er bewusst jede Ablenkung durch digitale Medien in seinen Geschäftsräumen…
This folly, the former summerhouse of Queen Anne is situated in a clearing surrounded pine wood at the edge of Shuttleworth estate near Old Warden in Bedfordshire, England. The building is a 18th-century brickwork. Inside is an elegant bedsit with…
Skiary is a small guest house away from civilization on the shores of Loch Hourn in Scotland, near the Isle of Skye. No access by road (accessible by boat or hiking trail), no electricity, no mobile signal. The house can accommodate six people (in…
Die Londoner Buchhandlung Tenderbooks verzichtet bewusst auf WLAN aus dem einfachen Grund, dass permanentes „online sein” Stress verursachen kann und man hier Wert darauf legt, dass sich die Kunden entspannen können. Tamsin Clark, der Besitzer…
Der Besitzer der Cocktailbar The Gin Tub im englischen Hove nahe Brighton ließ seine Bar zu einem Faraday’schen Käfig umrüsten, um Mobilfunksignale abzublocken. Ziel ist es, die Gäste zu ermuntern, sich miteinander zu unterhalten, anstatt auf ihre…
A temple for the pigs. Not kidding! The pigsty was built at the end of the 19th century to accommodate two pigs. The pigs’ keepers lived in two adjacent cottages. The Landmark Trust restored the building making a few small, careful changes…
Londons einzige schwimmende Buchhandlung “Word on the Water”, nahe der King’s Cross Station, nimmt die Leser mit auf eine “eigenwillige” Reise, sagt Miteigentümer Paddy, “was wir wollten, war Kunst, Musik und…