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Ed used to run cult London pizza joints. Chloe came from luxury fashion. Then the 2,000-tree cider orchard next to their...
14/06/2026

Ed used to run cult London pizza joints. Chloe came from luxury fashion. Then the 2,000-tree cider orchard next to their new Somerset home came up for sale, and the plan changed.

They press and bottle their own cider on site now, and they’ve put two shepherd’s huts among the trees - what they call their wild hotel rooms, hidden in an orchard between Bruton and Castle Cary.

Each hut has a kingsize bunk up top and a cubby underneath, made up for one or two small people, or the dog. Breakfast turns up at your door in the morning. Supper boxes too, if you’d rather cook over the firepit than drive anywhere, though The Newt and Bruton are both a short hop when you want them.

The huts sit 4 apple-tree rows apart, screened by the trees, so you’ll forget the other one’s there entirely.

Brand new, and the whole summer’s still open!
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Finish work on Friday, get on a train, and be somewhere wild before it’s properly dark. That’s the bit people don’t quit...
13/06/2026

Finish work on Friday, get on a train, and be somewhere wild before it’s properly dark. That’s the bit people don’t quite believe - that you can be this close to London and still wake up to a pond for swimming, a fire to light, and no one in the next field.

These are the ones we’d point a Londoner towards: close enough to be easy, far enough to feel like another world entirely.

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A few days in Cornwall with some of the Kip team, and we’ve come home with one shared opinion: how are there still place...
12/06/2026

A few days in Cornwall with some of the Kip team, and we’ve come home with one shared opinion: how are there still places like this hiding in the UK?!

Cottage Orné isn’t just one cottage, it’s a whole 17th-century hamlet near Looe, that India and her family spent 2 years restoring, each one decorated in its own bold key. (Orné is French for adorned, which makes total sense the moment you’re inside.)

It sits deep enough into the Cornish countryside that it starts to feel like its own little world. We spent 2 days hopping between sea swims and pool jumps, hot tub dips, a wet coastal walk that sent us straight back to the private sauna, crab sandwiches in Looe, and cosy afternoons in one of the cottages with a Cornish cream tea.

It’s the kind of place that gives me the exact feeling that made me start Kip in the first place. Just that excitement of finding somewhere that feels genuinely special and slightly hard to believe exists ✨

Sarah x

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09/06/2026

One very effective out of office. A few days of sunlight, slow mornings, pool swims and being nowhere near your inbox can do wonders. Mentally here already tbh.

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You climb a wooded track to get here, and the reward is the whole of Start Bay opening below you through the trees.There...
07/06/2026

You climb a wooded track to get here, and the reward is the whole of Start Bay opening below you through the trees.

There are 3 birdbox cabins perched up here, spaced far enough apart in the gardens that you’d swear you had the hillside to yourself. Deer come through at dusk, buzzards circle the tree line, the water keeps flickering between the leaves. And then a gate at the bottom of the garden opens straight onto the beach.

Huge views, a pizza oven on the deck, a beach sauna just a wander away. Rather more than a hotel room we think you’ll agree.

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Two days up here is enough to make you forget your inbox exists.The only Outlook up here is the one from your window - t...
06/06/2026

Two days up here is enough to make you forget your inbox exists.

The only Outlook up here is the one from your window - the whole Somerset Levels laid out below, weather rolling in from miles off. Suddenly you’ve watched it for an hour and called it a morning well spent.

This is The Red Cabin, on a rewilding ridge above Langport. Owner Tally designed it from scratch and you feel it everywhere: spruce ply that glows in the afternoon, a wood-fired sauna built into the cabin, a sunken hot tub on the deck. We walked, played games, cooked on fire and stayed in the tub ’til our fingers wrinkled and the stars came out.

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The first thing you see from the bed is the river.This vibrant cabin was a basic 1950s fishing hut until Lucy, who grew ...
05/06/2026

The first thing you see from the bed is the river.

This vibrant cabin was a basic 1950s fishing hut until Lucy, who grew up on this Highland estate, transformed it: bold Farrow & Ball, Fired Earth tiles, a curtained sleeping nook.

It’s off-grid for real - solar power, spring-fed shower, woodburner for heat. The hot tub takes time: light a fire underneath, stir, wait. But you’re counting stars from the water by the end of it.

No TV, no WiFi, no signal to speak of. Just the walking, the loch, and local chef Penny’s Wild Picnic to carry up a hill.

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Ever since I was a child I’ve fantasised about a life involving a farm, a chaotic collection of animals, bare feet, and ...
04/06/2026

Ever since I was a child I’ve fantasised about a life involving a farm, a chaotic collection of animals, bare feet, and fields to wander picking flowers. 48h at these brand new Cotswolds cabins did an excellent job of filling in until then.

The name turns out to be the literal truth. Scattered through the woodline are curved bays cut into the woodline, thought to date back to the 18th century and possibly unique to this farm, originally made to keep livestock warm. Each cabin sits in its own little pocket in the trees, 100m apart and so private you’d never know the other was there - just birdsong and grazing Jersey cows for company.

Owner Tom is an artist and it shows: his own paintings on the walls, bold prints, and layered patterns. There’s a hot tub on the deck that switches to a cold plunge, a sauna shared between the two cabins, Broadway 5 minutes down the road for coffee at Otis & Belle and a pint at the Lygon Arms. Then it’s back down the farm track to your own bay in the trees, and dinner cooked over the fire.

Bare feet optional. Encouraged, though.

Sarah x

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This beach house was made for long weekends, oysters, a bottle or two of something cold, and making shoes irrelevant by ...
31/05/2026

This beach house was made for long weekends, oysters, a bottle or two of something cold, and making shoes irrelevant by Saturday.

Sitting right behind the dunes of Camber Sands it’s all pale limewashed walls, linen curtains, shimmering light that shifts all day. The beach is a two-minute barefoot wander; the wild garden has an outdoor shower for rinsing off after.

And then there’s everything around it. Toasted banana bread and coffee at Leo’s on the beach. Rye for antique-hunting and a mooch round the independents. Dungeness, with its strange desert-flat beauty that still doesn’t look like anywhere else in England. Then home to the garden as the tide rolls in.

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