We loved the whole set up and the friendliness of the owners and their willingness to help us with what was nearly a huge problem, which was that the entrance to the driveway flooded with rainwater from the hills that poured down the road on two days, making the road impassable on the Saturday morning when we needed to get out for my father's Memorial service. The owners were unflapped as Nd offered to drive us the 40 mins to Taunton in their pickup which is specially adapted for the floods. We all climbed in, including our two dogs, and in fact it turned out to be ok because the water, a flash flood, had dropped and we got through in our own car. It rained again the next night and they again offered to drive us out to the cars that we had left up the road All was clear so we collected our cars on a brilliant sunny morning and headed off just before 10. The floods were back but we just got through. It looked alarming but we had made note of where the submerged road was highest and had cars with high clearance, a Yeti and a Mercedes sport hatchback. We were very grateful we had just swapped our old, low Volvo with dodgy electrics for the Yeti!

We thought the owners could have warned us!