Somerset Yurts is set on our dairy farm at the foot of the Quantock Hills AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). The Quantocks were actually the first designated AONB, and are a truly breathtaking part of our countryside in the South West. Cothelstone Hill is just 5 miles / 15 minute drive away, and well…
Dunster Castle is about a 45 minute drive from the Yurts. We took our family there for a day out during the Easter holidays. It’s a pretty spectacular place. There’s been a castle on the site for over 1000 years, which started as a Saxon stronghold, and developed into a huge Victorian country house. The…
Let me introduce you to a really amazing bit of glamping kit that you will get to play with during your yurt holiday – the Prakti Stove. We were really fortunate to have the UK distributors of this fab little product come and glamp with us a couple of years ago. They were travelling around…
Only around a forty minute drive from the yurts, will get you to the stunningly rugged North Somerset coast. Even on an overcast and windy day, the kids absolutely love getting to the beach and the adventure and excitement of fossil hunting! We managed to find a fair few fossils on large rocks, but will…
Happy Somerset Day from all of us at Somerset Yurts! We love living in this beautiful county, and sharing a little slice of it with you when you stay with us. To celebrate, why not have a look at this recently published guide to Secret Somerset? Pictured here is Will exploring one of our favourite…
Spring is well and truly in the air (finally!) and over the Easter Holidays I took the boys to explore Hestercombe Gardens. We haven’t been since last Summer, so it was lovely to see how it looked in the Spring time. There was a lot more colour than I had expected, and plenty of things…
Well Spring is here, and that can only mean one thing at Somerset Yurts – yurt set up!! The yurts have to come out of their Winter hibernation and get ready for a brand new season! I thought I would share a few pictures of us setting up Furzeclose yurt, as it’s quite an operation…
Wow, what an amazingly hot and sunny and perfect Summer we are having so far! We have been making straw this week, and Mark and I took the boys to see all the bales being stacked ready to bring back to the farm! It was lovely to see their faces taking in the scale of…
Me and the boys are working very hard this Summer, visiting our local attractions! Today’s ‘work’ outing was a couple of miles up into the Quantocks, to the National Trust’s Fyne Court. This really is a hidden gem, and fantastic place to visit, especially with children as there is so much to explore – and,…
There are a few perks to running our lovely glamping business 🙂 We recently took advantage of an empty midweek evening, and let the children run free in the yurt and field, while we supped on some wine, cooked on the BBQ, and took in the views. Once the yurt had been thoroughly explored, it…