Get off grid on a truly sustainable getaway in Cornwall by staying at Meadowsweet Holidays’ vintage caravan or safari tent. Both are tucked in a wooded valley and are powered by solar energy with water from an on-site borehole. There’s no WiFi and no mobile signal here and, for every stay, a tree is planted within the 12-acre smallholding you’ll be staying on. The site is far from main roads and, with your mobile powered down, the only sounds will be birdsong, the babbling of a nearby brook, and the crackle of your campfire.
Choose Bluebell, the 1960s caravan, as your home in this natural environment and you'll be bedding down in a two-tone ice cream and baby blue Cheltenham caravan. She’s perfectly sized for couples offering bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen too. For everything else, there’s the great outdoors; a little bit of which you have truly to yourselves. This 12-acre plot is home to the guests of just one other glamping getaway, the family-sized Meadowsweet Safari Tent, and your hosts themselves; Emma and Jim. But everyone is well spaced and you are welcome to explore all of it; in fact there’s a public footpath, which runs through the place and can lead you out and away.
If you want to keep your holiday truly green, leave the car where you parked it and walk out to explore. For a day on the beach, it’s a 40-minute walk through the wooded Coombe Valley, which, after a couple of miles, emerges at Duckpool Bay. And if you run out of supplies on site, you can walk through leafy lanes and undulating fields to reach the shop and cafe in the neighbouring village. A bike, bus, or car will get you further though. This is the very north west of Cornwall, a few miles north of Bude, so surf, sea, and the South West Coast Path are never hard to find.