Organic Places to Stay in the UK
A new book lists over 500 organic places to stay in the UK
Green Books publishes Organic Places to Stay in the UK by Linda Moss, listing over 500 organic accommodation options in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
More and more of us want to find organic places to stay when we're traveling. Just as we seek out organic food in the supermarkets, we know that by choosing an organic hotel or guesthouse, or an organic farm for our holiday home, we'll be guaranteed good, healthy food. Not only that, but people who care about the food that they serve to their guests probably also care more about the guests too.
Linda Moss began work on her Organic Places to Stay website six years ago, when she couldn't find such information for herself. Since then she's found over 1000 organic places worldwide, covering small hotels, guesthouses, b&bs, organic farms and both self-catering accommodation and campsites also on organic farms. She has now compiled a book containing the best 500 organic places to stay in the UK, published by Green Books.
Organic Places to Stay covers England from Berkshire to Yorkshire, and Scotland from Aberdeenshire to the Western Isles. There are 87 organic accommodation options listed for Wales, though only four in Northern Ireland. The book has already given me an idea next time I fly in or out of Gatwick Airport at some unearthly hour. Ray Lodge Farm with its cattle, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and horses is only 12 minutes from the airport, and at £30 per person per night is amazing value. I bet their organic breakfast is pretty amazing too. There are organic places close to Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast too, and one right in London, so you can combine a city break with organic eating.
The listings in the well laid-out 300-page book all include a colour photo, full contact details with website if available, a lengthy description and a note of the current prices. I'll give a quick plug for one of the best places I've ever stayed, the Kingcombe Centre near Dorchester, in the middle of the Kingcombe Meadows Nature Reserve and which runs a range of walks and activity and craft courses too. And organic doesn't mean basic and uncomfortable. How about Geddes House in the Moray Firth, a Georgian country home on a 1000-acre Highland estate, at only £40 (US$75/CAN$85)a night?
Next time I'm booking a break in the UK, I'll first be browsing through this book as well as Green Places to Stay, which I also recently reviewed (click here to read that). They've both fired me up for some more UK travel, and you can't praise them higher than that.
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Organic Places to Stay in the UK costs £10.95 from the Green Books Online Bookshop, which will ship anywhere in the world. Click here.
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