Pretty Cotswolds town travelers ignore has cosy homes you can lease

WITH cowpats, daisies and muddy yomps on the doorstep of our vacation home, our Cotswolds vacation was simply what the physician bought for the January detox season.

However slip off your wellies at Daisy Hill Barn and you discover yourself in a parallel world of hyper-hipster elegant.

Within its 18th-century Cotswold stone walls, the home furnishings and accessories are as fashion-forward as can be.

Settle back on the retro couch with flamingo and domino-print cushions, bang on some Netflix on the wall-mounted flatscreen television then knock up a mixed drink or 3 in the pineapple-shaped shaker and you might quickly forget you remain in inmost, dampest, darkest Oxfordshire.

The kitchen area and 2 double bed rooms– one en-suite, one with shower– are similarly fantastic, with designer tiling and lighting, beams, crazy-shaped night table and no end of novelty books and curios.

The home is likewise dog-friendly and a stylishly provided garden pays for views of the town swing park, tennis/basketball court and experience play then farm fields beyond.

However it is all dead tranquil here, simply the noise of birdsong, in the small town of Duns Tew, Bicester.

Found a smidge outside the main Cotswold Sanctuary, this corner of north Oxfordshire is the location to go to get away route-one tourist.

Considering that the town’s Post Workplace and one store shut some years back, there is little to check out however for St Mary Magdalene Church and the White Horse bar.

Parts of the previous date to the 12th Century and its 2 grade II-listed gravestones are cause for enjoyment amongst heritage types, for their secret carvings and engravings obscured by centuries of lichen.

However a see to the neighboring Rollright Stones heritage website, dating to 2500BC, takes you seriously even more back in time.

Its 3 websites, the King’s Stone, King’s Male stone circle and Whispering Knights burial chamber, are stated to be called for a king and his army who were turned to stone by a witch.

The White Horse, on the other hand, is well known everywhere for its great food and red wine.

However simply as exceptional as the steak was the ambiance of this 14th-century inn with its fireplaces, flagstone floorings, beamed ceilings and … otherwise curious clients.

It was tough not to be all ears on the 2 swank old fellas in gilets dining in the corner, while talking about buddies in the Peerage.

As the night advanced, we likewise attested to an arm-wrestle in between a regional sheep-herder and pothole-repair guy– and a singer-guitarist so wonderful he not just got the bar dancing however bar guv’ nor Michael to the mic for a rousing performance of AC/DC.

Thank, you, Michael– which was us Duns Tew ‘d for the night and off to bed.