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Eastlife Spring 2020

With spring flowers, warmer weather and Easter on the horizon, we’re helping you get out of the winter slumber and embrace the great outdoors. Spend the afternoon exploring the sleepy villages of Norfolk or Suffolk, learn to sail on the Broads or punt along the River Cam. Find out more about beach hut hire on the pretty shores of Mersea Island or discover the likes of Ely, Colchester and Ipswich with our travel guides. With spring flowers, warmer weather and Easter on the horizon, we’re helping you get out of the winter slumber and embrace the great outdoors. Spend the afternoon exploring the sleepy villages of Norfolk or Suffolk, learn to sail on the Broads or punt along the River Cam. Find out more about beach hut hire on the pretty shores of Mersea Island or discover the likes of Ely, Colchester and Ipswich with our travel guides.

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Happy ValleyGrimston, NorfolkSet amongst a mix of open spaces and beautiful woodlandspots, Happy Valley is a woodland wilderness in North WestNorfolk. Get away from it all in a cosy shepherd’s hut, perfect forcouples, families and friends, in a lovely remote and romanticsetting.Each hut comes with a double bed, wood-burning stove, hob,fridge, toaster, kettle, BBQ and firepit. There are even hot waterfallshowers and a newly refurbished shower and toilet block withproper flushing loos.If you need a little more space, choose from a cosy cabin, withprivate hot tub, or the grand Toad Hall, a luxury woodland lodgewhich features its own wet room, hot tub, king size accommodation,underfloor heating and fully functional kitchen.Take a walk through ancient woods and kick back in this invigoratingnatural space, or venture further afield to Sandringham,visit a local pub for Sunday lunch, or explore the nearby NorthNorfolk Coast.www.happyvalleynorfolk.co.uk/glampingGuilden GateBassingbourn, Royston, HertfordshireEco glamping is available at Guilden Gate near Bassingbourn.Choose from two beautiful glamp sites: The Coppice Woodlandor The Secret Garden.The Coppice Woodland is set in two acres of native woodlandand is only let to one family or couple at a time, so this is yourown little piece of nature. Sleeping arrangements include arenovated 1973 VW camper van with a permanent full-sizeddouble bed at one end and a small children’s bed at the otherend, where the driver and passenger seats used to be.The woodland also has a woodsman’s yurt with king size bedto sleep two or use as a living area. For dining there’s a cedarshingle canopy for sheltered dining should it rain, and what isdescribed as a genuinely beautiful twin vault dry compost toiletand ‘bathroom’ - a wood fired hot tub and solar shower.www.guildengate.co.uk/glamping44

Fen End FarmCottenham, CambridgeshireThere are yurts, bell-tents and tipis available for glamping just 10miles from Cambridge at Fen End Farm, near Cottenham. Set ona small organic farm, this glamp site is in an apple orchard, fromwhich the farm produces its own organic apple juice.The 16ft yurt has been handcrafted on the farm from ash poles,steam bent in the traditional way. Inside there is a groundsheetwith a coir mat carpet and rag rugs over the top, a small chest ofdrawers, a battery powered lantern and a wood-burning stove.The tipis and tents also feature stoves to make things cosy, aswell as double beds to snuggle up in.The orchard is enclosed all around by a mixed hedge, so it feelssecluded but is also in the heart of the working farm. Facilitiesinclude a communal kitchen, as well as a compost toilet, washbasin and shower with hot and cold running water.www.fenendfarm.co.uk/eco-campsite“The comfortable and cosyHobbit-hole features twodouble bedrooms, a sittingroom, kitchen, a shower room,WC and fully fitted kitchen - allthe comforts of middle-earth. ”West Stow PodsBury St Edmunds, SuffolkIf you’ve seen The Lord of the Rings or the Hobbit and decidedthat subterranean dwelling is the thing for you, you’ll be in luck atWest Stow Pods. Pod Hollow is a charming halfling-style housebuilt into the side of a grassy knoll. With wooden beams, rounddoors and loads of old-world charm, this is pure fantasy glampingtaken to the next level.The comfortable and cosy Hobbit-hole features two doublebedrooms, a sitting room, kitchen, a shower room, WC and fullyfitted kitchen - all the comforts of middle-earth.This family-run site is situated just a few miles from Bury St Edmunds,and also has a choice of fully self-contained MegaPodsand Lodges. It’s a great base from which to explore the Suffolkcountryside, including the nearby West Stow Anglo-SaxonVillage, where a member of the Tolkien Society can explain themany links between Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxons – visitwww.arnor.org.uk for options and booking.www.weststowpods.co.ukLee Wick FarmSt. Osyth, EssexThis stunning glamp-site offers state-of-the-art cabinsand pods, all with toilets, showers and kitchen areas,plus heating, a fire pit, BBQ and log fired hot tub.‘Armadillas’ are for two adults and feature under-floorheating, mood lighting, Bluetooth connectivity and aTV with DVD player. ‘CargoPods’ are larger and caneach sleep up to two adults, or two adults and twochildren per Pod. The kitchen has electric rings, soyou don’t need to cook on the BBQ all of the time.‘MegaPods’ are slightly larger than Armadillas, andcan sleep up to two adults or a family of four. Thereis also a large ‘Lushna Mezzanine’ cabin, whichcan sleep three adults or a family of five, and eight‘Lushna Petites’, for two adults or a family of four.Finally, there is the ‘Lushna Classic Suite’ and two‘Lushna Lux Suites’ for adults only. These have kingsize beds and are perfect for relaxing, taking in thewonderful views over the estuary.www.leewickfarm.co.uk45

Happy Valley

Grimston, Norfolk

Set amongst a mix of open spaces and beautiful woodland

spots, Happy Valley is a woodland wilderness in North West

Norfolk. Get away from it all in a cosy shepherd’s hut, perfect for

couples, families and friends, in a lovely remote and romantic

setting.

Each hut comes with a double bed, wood-burning stove, hob,

fridge, toaster, kettle, BBQ and firepit. There are even hot waterfall

showers and a newly refurbished shower and toilet block with

proper flushing loos.

If you need a little more space, choose from a cosy cabin, with

private hot tub, or the grand Toad Hall, a luxury woodland lodge

which features its own wet room, hot tub, king size accommodation,

underfloor heating and fully functional kitchen.

Take a walk through ancient woods and kick back in this invigorating

natural space, or venture further afield to Sandringham,

visit a local pub for Sunday lunch, or explore the nearby North

Norfolk Coast.

www.happyvalleynorfolk.co.uk/glamping

Guilden Gate

Bassingbourn, Royston, Hertfordshire

Eco glamping is available at Guilden Gate near Bassingbourn.

Choose from two beautiful glamp sites: The Coppice Woodland

or The Secret Garden.

The Coppice Woodland is set in two acres of native woodland

and is only let to one family or couple at a time, so this is your

own little piece of nature. Sleeping arrangements include a

renovated 1973 VW camper van with a permanent full-sized

double bed at one end and a small children’s bed at the other

end, where the driver and passenger seats used to be.

The woodland also has a woodsman’s yurt with king size bed

to sleep two or use as a living area. For dining there’s a cedar

shingle canopy for sheltered dining should it rain, and what is

described as a genuinely beautiful twin vault dry compost toilet

and ‘bathroom’ - a wood fired hot tub and solar shower.

www.guildengate.co.uk/glamping

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