We bought a small holiday lodge on the north coast of Cornwall in 2015. With a 9 year age gap between our 3 children, and a much loved family dog, we discovered this was the one place that made us all very happy!

So much to do come rain or shine, nothing beats standing on a beach staring at the waves to make anything seem possible. We always thought we would move to Cornwall when the kids left home.

We always fancied running something ourselves in Cornwall that combined the best of all these experiences.

Having been lucky enough to stay in some amazing self catering places in Europe and beyond, we always fancied running something ourselves in Cornwall that combined the best of all these experiences. We thought we would wait until our youngest went to Uni, but realised this would mean none of our children would have roots in the South West which seemed like a real shame. So in 2018 we began to think we might just be able to make the idea work sooner rather than later. Our pony mad youngest eventually got on board with the idea and the search for a perfect property began! It was a very, very laborious process. We completely underestimated the trials of househunting 250 miles from home, but after several false starts, just as we were going to give up, we chanced upon Gilly Vean Farm which ticked pretty much every box!