Nab Cottage Full Review
Posted: 30 November 2007 by Rikke Bruntse-Dahl
Waking up overlooking Rydal Water and surrounded by mountains in the Lake District instantly made us UK-holiday fans. Trawling through Organic Holidays a few weeks earlier, we had thought Nab Cottage sounded perfect. Even though it wasn't, it was a fantastic base for a good, wholesome weekend.
Nab Cottage is an authentic, homey place to spend a weekend in a beautiful part of the country. The breakfast was scrummy -- all the condiments were either organic or Fairtrade, the 100 per cent organic homemade bread was great (but the white Hovis sliced bread wasn't), and on the weekend we went, owner, Tim estimated that the morning meal was 70 per cent organic. He also told us they've bought most of their supplies from the organic workers' co-operative, Suma, for the past 20 years, which really impressed us. Additionally, they're cutting food miles by getting tomatoes, mushrooms, meat, ice cream and the free-range eggs from local suppliers.
The Nab Cottage crew also has a large vegetable garden, where they grow their own sorrel, rocket, radish, beans, lettuce, leeks apples, rhubarb, red and blackcurrants, gooseberries and plums. All paper, cans, glass, plastic, batteries and cardboard are recycled.
Food is sourced locally or grown in the stunning grounds of the cottage
From June to September Nab Cottage doubles as an experiential language school teaching English to adults from all over the world. We went in September and although we did see the students around the cottage, we didn't actually notice it was a language school. Continue reading...
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