Tara - Sleeps 10
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About the cottage
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This is the wonderful Balcony which can be completely opened up in Summer to enjoy the fabulous views over the Beskedy Mountain nature reserve to the Slovakian border.
We have organised a great taxi and car hire system for guests, whereby guests can be taxied straight from the airport (Brno is usually the cheapest with Ryanair) to the house and on the way (25 mins from the house) pick up the hire cars - even if out of office hours, guest drivers can then follow the taxi into the Nature Reserve where the house is.
The car hire for a medium to large saloon is approx £14 per day.
The house is ideal for 6 adults and 4 children - or 10 adults, it has 6 bedrooms, 2 of them very spacious .
The Bedrooms are one treble, 2 doubles and 3 singles.
The main room downstairs has a wonderful old-fashioned farmers oven which incorporates a bread oven and hotplate and has stairs up to the top of it where you can lcosy down on the sheepskins if you feel the bedroom is just too far away.
The main room has a big dining table which easily seats 10 plus another big table which seats 7 where children can play at.
The kitchen has 6 electric hob hot plates and an oven, also supplied are a microwave, toaster, kettle and double sink. There is a cosy 'den' with benches and table at the other end of the kitchen.
There is a TV lounge room downstairs with 300 satelite chanells including 3 in English. We have also installed a DVD.
There is also a spacious shower washroom with under-floor heating and a washing machine and dryer for guests.
The water is supplied by automatic pump from our own spring and there is a lovely BBQ out house being built in the orchard with fabulous views.
Our Spring 
A great BBQ with a lovely view 
The house stands in its own meadow of about 20 acres, all around is wonderful forest and the views from the verandah look straight across the valley and left and right for about 12 miles - there is no house, light, telegraph pole, road or sign of civilisation at all - it is a wonderful forest nature reserve where only those people actually living in it can travel to by car, everyone else has to walk, so very few cars and no tourist feel to the place.
But... not completely cut off ! The house was the focus of a tiny community of farmers and there are about 6 houses, mostly ancient, within a short walk and there is a mountain top ski resort (again very untouristy) about a 45 minute walk along the forest ways and here there is also a very pretty collection of old houses a picturesque church and a very nice walkers bar / restaurant.
Click here for more photos of The views on this walk
From the restaurant you have superb views over miles of forest and onwards to the Tatra Alpine mountain range.
This area is a paradise for those who appreciate the wonders of a forest nature reserve and there are literally hundreds of miles of forestry roads and paths to explore by bike or walking including the beautiful walks around the Sance (Shancer) lake.
There are many activities on offer and places to visit like the little wooden museum town of Skanzen :
click the website links for more information:
www.vmp.cz/english/little_wooden_town.htm
Or the Valley of Water Mills and the museum Wallacian Farming Village
This is the interior of wonderful Victorian mountain top fresh air Spar of Pustevny:
http://www.vmp.cz/english/pustevny-eng.htm
http://www.pustevny.czech-mountains.eu
You can reach the mountain top group of Victorian buildings by ski lift all summer and walk down from there. This amazing restaurant does great cakes and tea and the walk up to the statue to Radegast the Pagan God of beer which is just a 25 minute walk up the mountain - luckily enough the restaurant does also serve beer for when you come back down !
As you can see from the photos of Tara most of the work has now been done, we are just waiting a couple of weeks for the snow to go and we can finish off the work like painting windows and oiling the roof and wall shingles.
We are putting together a proper 'What to Do' web section specially for 'Tara' which will be on our website shortly.
Tara will be offered to guests for minimum weekly slots running from Saturdays.
Please enquire from our homepage enquiry button at www.grove-cottages.co.uk for more details or if you wish to book. You may also call me (Mark), Millie or Eloise in office hours on
This is an absolutely fabulous place for those who want enjoy nature and style.
'Tara' sleeps 8 and costs £850 per week.
Please use the Availability Calendar to contact me with any further questions or booking enquiries.
Mark.
About Local Area
Useful weblinks
Bike Hire: You can actually hire bicycles directly from some of the train stations and there is an end of the line station just 15 mins down the road from Tara in the main village called Ostravice - you can also take the bikes on the train (this is a tiny mountain train) to some of the other foothill areas or cycle there and train it back or just potter around the pretty foothills
Here is the Train website link showing the map of its bicycle services
www.cd.cz
Horse Trekking: We are compiling a list of Stables and what they offer, here is just one.
www.jizdarna.euweb.cz
Beskedy mountains :Here are some weblinks about the Beskedy mountains - see the photo galleries if there is one on the websites.
www.travel.cz
www.beskydy-info.cz
www.aix.upol.cz no pictures but a good rundown of many local places
Frydek-Mystek: This is a rather old page of information on Frydek-Mystek which is 25 mins away, it is the local Capital but with a population of just 65,000 a rather small Capital but it does have some nice places to visit and the biggest Tesco's, Kaufland, Hypernova, Aldi and all the other superstores you have ever seen - if you just cannot tear yourself away from familiar pastimes.
The 2 main Squares of Frydek and Mystek are both very pretty with churches, terrace cafés, restaurants, internet cafes, banks and often events.
http://www.travel.cz/guide/101/index_en.html
Hukvaldi Castle about 45 mins away
www.travel.cz
This is all about Leos Janacek the Composer who was born in Hukvaldi a village about 45 mins away where there is a lovely Castle
www.leosjanacek.co.uk
Stramberk Castle about 45 mins away.
Stramberk Castle: A ruin of a castle from the 14th century, renovated at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries according to the project by K.Hilbert. The castle complex with cylinder tower called Trúba (a look-out tower and a dungeon), an entrance gate and remains of fortifications. The colourful town `tramberk is the town historical preserve with dominant folk architecture of the Valaasko region.
www.stramberk.cz
www.czechtourism.com
Photo Gallery of a trip around Stare Hamry and the local area.
www.bcbarney2.glenalbyn.org
What did the guests say:
The Grove Cottages holiday cottages have many unique original features like 18th Century Bake ovens and working kitchen ranges, traditional Suffolk Brick floors, wattle and daub walls, 16th Century thatched roofs, massive Inglenook fireplaces, log fires, millstones and exposed beams galore and they are all lovingly restored and period furnished so that they are a joy just to be in.
The Grove Cottages holiday homes are situated in South Suffolk / East Anglia which is less than 2 hours for London or an hour from Cambridge and where the famous English Landscape painter John Constable was born and created such masterpieces as 'The Haywain'.
The Grove Cottages are available all year for weekend and midweek short breaks as well as weekly holidays and the accommodation sleeps from 2 to 6.
We are 4 star rated and provide bikes for our guests to explore the beautiful English countryside.
Please look through our site and you will find out why our guests love it so much here.
Thank you and Happy Hols !
Mark
