Cottage Holidays in the UK :: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales :: with Internet access

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For some people going on a cottage holiday in the UK is all about getting a welcome break from work, getting away from it all and spending quality time with the family to recharge your batteries and get yourself fit and ready for the rest of the year. Nowadays though the PC, and laptops, along with their standard internet connection allow us all to keep in touch with email and instant messenger 24 hours a day, and many people like to go on holiday with their laptops and keep connected to the Internet.

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Many people see this as an odd choice because the idea of spending hours looking at the computer screen and fiddling around with your mouse are what you do all day at work anyway, but you can actually have a lot of fun using your computer both for business and pleasure and although husbands and wives might have different opinions about whether you should take your work on holiday with you, the real benefits of being able to watch your stock portfolio or carry on managing your e commerce business while staying in a beautiful rented cottage are just to much to pass up.

What does your self catering holiday cottage need though if you are going to have a reliable Internet connection while in the middle of the countryside in your holiday home?

Firstly you need to decide whether you can live with a modem connection that will require a phone line that you can also use for the telephone, in which case you've got the long wait to dial up and slow download times, but you do have the advantage that just about any cottage in the UK with a fixed phone line will allow you to maintain your web connection. Or do you want broadband access in which case your holiday home will need to have an arrangement with one of the broad band Internet access providers in the UK such as BT Virgin, Demon or Easynet.

Of course, broadband has only been made available in some areas of England Scotland Ireland and Wales, and you need to check for high speed Internet access when you are going on holiday to one of these areas:

Cotswolds
The Cotswolds
East Anglia
Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire
North Norfolk and its Coast
South Norfolk
Essex
Norfolk Broads
Suffolk
Heart of England
Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire
Cheshire
Shakespeare Country
Hereford, Worcester and The Wye Valley
Peak District
Shropshire
Cornwall
North Cornwall
South Cornwall
Mid Cornwall
South of England
Hampshire
Isle of Wight
Wiltshire
Bath
Kent
London and the Home Counties
Sussex
Dorset and Somerset
Dorset
Somerset
Devon
East Devon
South Devon
Devonshire Heartland
Dartmoor and West Devon
North Devon
Yorkshire and Northumberland
North Yorkshire Moors
Yorkshire Dales
North Yorkshire Coast
York and the Vale of York
Bronte County
Northumberland
Wales
Snowdonia and the North
Cardigan Bay and Mid Wales
Pembrokeshire and the South
Anglesey
Scotland
St Andrews, Perthshire and Tayside
Sutherland, Caithness and Easter
Oban and Argyll
Ullapool and Wester Ross
Edinburgh and The Border Country
Ayrshire Coast, Dumfries and Galloway
Loch Lomond and The Trossachs
Skye & The Isles
Lochaber, Loch Ness, The Great Glen and Inverness
Royal Deeside, Cairngorms and the North East
Cumbria
Lake District National Park
Cumbria, The Lakes & The Eden Valley
Blackpool & The North West

Even if you are in one of these counties you need to check with BT to know whether Internet access over a broadband line is available in the specific location you want, and you can go online for a fast automatic postcode check at BT.

What to look for in your rental cottage holiday

When you are investigating holiday cottage rental in the UK it is worth thinking about the meaning of the details you read in a typical holiday home description. When picturesque views are described, perhaps of rolling hills you can expect to be situated in rural countryside, although you may be on the edge of a small village or town, so you need to think about local shopping facilities, and whether you will need to drive your car to get even basic supplies. Partly exposed old beams are a very attractive feature of old farm cottages, some of which are hundreds of years old. The layout of these old cottages is very traditional and some may have one or two bathrooms, a shower or power shower, possibly with an en suite to the master bedroom. Low ceilings and inglenook fireplaces are typical features, along with aga cookers and stone flagged floors, all of which have alternative modern equivalents that are a little more easy to live with but do not have the same attractive traditional character.

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Twin bedrooms with TV and video are quite standard features because parties with children sharing rooms often need to keep the kids entertained with television and playstation or gamecube when mum and dad are having a long lie in. When you look at cottages that are to let you should check whether they have an English Tourism Council rating of one, two, three, four or five stars. Their system gives you a lot of reassurance about the facilities that are on offer. If you have trouble with wheelchair access for disabled or partially disabled people you should consider whether your cottage is on one or two floors, because even a short flight of stairs might mean that you are constantly helping your fellows around the house to get from one room to another.

If you are in a traditional stone cottage, even if it has a thatched roof, you need to think about heating and cooking when the seasons change. Electric heating with night storage heaters is a good system, but some cottages use oil fired or gas fired systems and occasionally panel wall heaters in the bedrooms to keep you cosy and warm when it is cold and windy and rainy. Rain and wet weather are of course traditional English holiday attributes so you need to have wet weather gear, an umbrella and some Wellington boots to keep you dry.

Is your garden green and grassed, and do you have garden furniture like a table and chairs with parasol umbrella? If you take a long walk through the local fields and hills you need to make sure you can come back home, throw off your shoes and sit in your garden drinking pimm’s, and reading the Sunday papers or a good paperback book.

The question is, can you live without the web, and spend a holiday in a cottage in the English countryside just listening to the sound of sheep and chickens, or do you need to take your personal computer or Apple laptop away with you and stay wired to the world wide web?