An unexpected holiday: Glamping

So I don't get many holidays, it's part of being self employed and being a total control freak of my business. But every now and again everyone needs a break from the everyday. We were all set to leave for France on a little get away for 5 days.  Our mum amazingly bought a house out there about 8 years ago and we have steadily been doing it up. But you can read more about that on the blog soon.

I finished work on Tuesday night and rushed home excited to be leaving the next day, I burst open the door shouting 'I'm on holiday!!!' Only to be met my mikes more than anxious face. Our flight to France had been cancelled...

Refusing to admit defeat and stay at home we began a search for a new holiday! Being spontaneous was always so easy when we were travelling, mainly because we had all the time in the world, so what if we had to wait a day and a half for a bus! But this was not the case this time. We looked at last minute flights anywhere...No. No flights. We looked at various hotels....No. So expensive or booked up. Finally I thought glamping would be great, I love glamping and have done it before in tipis, it's like camping but with ascetics. Perfect. Many of them were also booked and pretty expensive until finally I found La Rosa. I have known about it for a while and always wanted to go. We phoned them up and they were so helpful, they felt so sorry for our flight cancellation and set about giving us the best holiday ever! 

La rosa is a hotel and glamping site, the hotel is based in Whitby and the glamping site about 40 mins out of Whitby.

 So I donned a vintage headscarf, packed a vintage suitcase and pocketed my new lomography fish eye baby camera (an early birthday present from mike) and off we went, briefly stopping off at a farm shop for some supplies. olives count as supplies, don't they?

On arrival we met Mandy who told us they had upgraded us from the blue bird caravan to swallow barn, and OMG!! We're talking a circus themed barn here guys! Two wood burning stoves, a roll top bath, a big comfy bed and a compost toilet built out like a throne! The views were amazing, the decor eclectic and the people lovely, what more could you want! Oh yeah, it's all for charity! All the money from swallow barn and blue bird caravan go towards the open nest charity. The open nest chairty is a creative, forward thinking, charitable project which provides respite care for, and campaigns on behalf of adopted children and adoptive parents. Visit www.theopennest.co.uk for more information.