Wonderful Retreat
Review Submitted: September 25, 2009
Date of Stay: August 2009
My wife and I and our three year old daughter stayed in this house for a week in August, 2009. In almost every regard, the house and the experience exceeded our expectations.
The house itself is very clean and comfortable. Contemporary but with character. Full kitchen, comfortable beds, even internet and telephone. The property is beautiful. There is a trail around the perimeter of the farmed trees which we walked every day, discovering wild blueberries and raspberries to our daughter's delight. The pond is amazing. Clean and beautiful and we all swam in it several times a day (I wouldn't call it small, btw. Plenty big to swim laps if you want.) The house is situated very privately and is almost entirely quiet. There is a farm across the street and there was occasional activity there, but nothing noisy. From the house, you can't see the farm structures and they can't see you, so it feels very private.
Peter and Claudia, the owners, are perfect hosts. They made sure we had everything we needed and otherwise left us completely alone. (Even before we got there, Peter was a pleasure to do business with.) From the little that we talked, I wished that we could have spent more time talking with them (We invited them to look us up if they ever come down to New York City).
We could have spent the entire week very happily just staying at the house, but for variety, we did do a couple of short trips. We went to a popular lake to swim (Crystal Lake. To my mind, overrated, especially when you have your own private pond!) We visited the Bread and Puppet theater in Glover, which was amazing. And don't miss the general store in Glover. We went to Johnson Woolen Mills for a little winter wear shopping. And there is a fantastic food co-op / health food store in the next town over, the name of which escapes me (Peter knows it.) But mostly we relaxed around the house and pond. It was a real treat for us, coming from NYC, that our daughter could run off on her own through the meadow, picking wild flowers.
In short: I highly recommend this property if you want a comfortable, extremely quiet, private, beautiful, relaxing getaway. We look forward to getting back there for more of the same.
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