Whitstable Cosy, 2 Mins Beach

Description

A little cottage-apartment hide-away where you can really feel at home.
Harbour Cottage is the front half of a quirky, cosy, bigger Victorian cottage that would have been a fisherman's home. It's just 3 doors down from the harbour and beach. The cottage's position is fantastic too because it's parallel to the much-loved Harbour Street with all its bohemian shops and restaurants, but the street is somehow tucked quietly away.

Harbour Cottage is small but perfectly formed! It has its own front door, tiled hall and old wooden staircase. There’s a light living room/kitchen with a woodburning stove. And upstairs a small private bathroom and sunny double bedroom. The cottage is ideally suited for a couple, but if you are two friends it works out well too as there's a comfy single folding bed that you can either have pulled out in the bedroom, or downstairs in the living room. I have said that my cottage sleeps 3 because for a couple with a child aged 7+ the single bed means it's possible to all sleep upstairs in the bedroom. Alternatively for a couple who would like a friend to visit for a night or two during their stay (e.g. a grown up child studying at the university etc.), they can have the single bed in the living room. But best is for two! But whoever does stay seems to love my little cottage, it's homely, rustic and comfortable, and everyone says it has a uniquely nice feel.

If you don't already know the town, you will discover Whitstable is really special. It is a good mix of an old fashioned fishing small town community and artistic/foodie sophistication. The sea front has an unspoilt feel with hotchpotch white-washed cottages, old wooden fishing sheds and colourful beach huts. No concrete promenade here but a shingle beach with wooden groynes, wild flowers on the shore and oyster catchers pottering about.

You can make your visit as lively or as quiet as you like: for a little town there's so much going on, but you can easily find complete peace too. There's sailing, wind or kite surfing, boat trips out to see seals and our wind farm, tearooms, fish restaurants, independent shops of all kinds, live bands, unique festivals. Wild seas, rural beaches, ancient woodland, fantastic light, sunny days, geese migrating. Perfect.

And my little cottage is a lovely place to enjoy as your home in our wonderful little town.

Finally my rents help me fund dog welfare and advocacy work in Spain - particularly for the podencos: a breed of hunting hound that are loving, sensitive, athletic comedians, and so stunning to look at. Tragically they are abandoned and so many killed in their thousands upon thousands every year in Spain when deemed redundant. So I try to balance providing a good value, lovely space for visitors, with keeping my income level so I am able to provide reliably for the dogs depending on me, and keep working with others to try and change this terrible situation. My thanks to all guests who rent my little cottage and thereby help these innocent souls who desperately need our support. Come to Harbour Cottage to find happiness for yourself and to help bring happiness to the dogs!