Farmhouse holiday cottages in a tranquil rural hideaway Ceredigion, West Wales.
An ideal base for exploring The Teifi Valley, Cardigan Bay and Pembrokeshire.

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Seals are friendly here in West Wales

Grey seals are frequently seen here in West Wales, they are inquisitive and are frequently seen at close quarters.

Friday 8th of August 2014 09:07 PM

National Trust Wales’ top ten Special Places: Mwnt

Mwnt is just a short drive away and it’s beach, cliffs and church are special to many of our holiday cottage guests. One romantic young man got down on one knee and proposed marriage there ...she said yes!

Wednesday 6th of August 2014 04:40 PM

Farmhouse holiday cottages Guest feedback- August 2014

This was our first holiday in Wales and will not be our last; excellent for all the family. Many thanks

Saturday 2nd of August 2014 01:16 PM

A great visit to our local (6 miles) distillery

Visitors are welcome to Glynhynod Farm, just 6 miles away from our holiday cottages, to taste and buy its products. On site also is a shop selling Teifi Farmhouse cheeses. We had a warm welcome and some wonderful taste bud titillation!

Friday 1st of August 2014 12:45 AM

Byre Holiday cottage visitor feedback

Things you liked: Liked both the privacy and the community feel of the place. Didn’t feel hemmed in by the other properties. Very friendly feel, no doubt facilitated by your own example and welcome. You deserve all your success!

Tuesday 29th of July 2014 11:21 AM

Butterflies sunbathing in West Wales

Have just done the rounds of this week’s holiday cottages visitors who are all returning home tomorrow. They are all happy and relaxed having enjoyed a fabulous week of wall to wall sunshine. So have the butterflies sunbathing on the flowers.

Friday 25th of July 2014 06:13 PM

Cardigan Bay boat trip from New Quay Wales

The other week I as part of a marine mammals course I went out on a boat trip from New Quay to spot the Cardigan Bay bottle-nosed dolphins & grey seals. ...we spotted lots of dolphins.

Wednesday 23rd of July 2014 12:45 PM

A relaxed, dog friendly walk from Cilgerran to Cardigan

Jane and I decided to take Alfie and our 2 the dogs out for a walk and have lunch in Cardigan. We set off for our walk from Cilgerran Wildlife Centre. Dogs are welcome on leads and car parking is £3 for the day

Monday 21st of July 2014 12:37 PM

Squirrels love them or hate them?

This photo was taken from The Farmhouse holiday cottage kitchen window. Our dogs Charlie & Hamish are definitely in the we hate them camp, Julie and I quite like them but object to feeding them! What do you think?

Tuesday 8th of July 2014 10:11 AM

Woodpeckers from holiday cottage window

We get a wide range of birds for holiday cottage visitors to see including nuthatches, tits, finches and the colourful greater spotted woodpecker. Seen here thanks to a keen photographer staying in our Farmhouse holiday cottage West Wales.

Tuesday 1st of July 2014 03:48 PM

Back home to sea food from Wales

Scuba diving near Llangrannog. Well at 15C and only a couple of metres of visibility it was not quite The Red Sea but it was teeming with life, spider crabs, brown crabs and lobsters.

Monday 30th of June 2014 10:55 AM

Lottie's dog friendly holiday in Wales

Lottie had a great time on holiday and sent us theses photos of her sun bathing and chilling out (after a hard day of walking her owners) in front the open fire in her holiday cottage.

Thursday 19th of June 2014 05:24 PM

Holiday cottage: Pond life in Wales

Canadian geese, now have a mallard and a tufted duck families for neighbours!

Monday 16th of June 2014 05:48 PM

watching the birds and squirrels feeding

Nuthatches and Greater Spotted Woodpeckers are the star attractions for the people. The dogs and Truffle pictured here seem to prefer the squirrels

Friday 13th of June 2014 08:42 PM

Low tide at dog friendly Poppitt

Poppitt Sands, a firm favourite with our holiday cottage guests. Never before have we been there at quite such a low tide and appreciated just how big this sandy beach is.

Wednesday 11th of June 2014 06:29 PM

Today (June 7th) holiday cottage guestbook comment:-

Thank you for a fantastic holiday!!!"

Saturday 7th of June 2014 01:37 PM

Compare this to your drive into town

Town (Carmarthen) is 20 miles from our holiday cottages but it’s a pretty 20 miles and there is no stopping along the way! Apparently our area of West Wales has more miles of road per inhabitant than anywhere else in Europe!

Friday 6th of June 2014 05:24 PM

Twm Sion Cati "the Welsh Robin Hood"

Twm Sion Cati is a popular Welsh hero similar to Robin Hood. This wood carving of Twm Sion Cati is sited in Tregaron town square.

Thursday 5th of June 2014 04:23 PM

Red Kites nesting at holiday cottages

The morning dog walk is serenaded by with bird song. Blackbirds are tugging worms from the lawn and the red kites fly up from their nest high up in the beech trees as you walk past. In the barn nesting swallows zoom overhead.

Tuesday 3rd of June 2014 11:44 AM

Canadian Geese goslngs: Holiday Cottage Wales

Canadian geese are regular visitors, to our ponds at the bottom of our three acre farmyard plot. This year for the first time they built a nest, laid some eggs and hatched four beautiful goslings..

Thursday 22nd of May 2014 08:57 PM