Travel Info + Booking
NOTE: Booking closes on 31 March 2025
On this page you will find an overview of the trip, additional information, which rooms are available and the price per room/ occupancy. Travel to and from the Lake District is not included in the price. On the Travel Guide page you will find more information on how to travel to the Lake District.
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The Trip
When: Monday 22 September - Friday 26 September 2025
Where: Lake District National Park | England
Theme: The Lake District in Beatrix Potter's footsteps
Where we will stay: Yew Tree Farm, the iconic 17th century farmhouse in Coniston
Price: €2475- €2750
Number of people: 4-6
Sign-up open: until 31 March 2025
The rooms at Yew Tree Farmhouse
We will stay in the special Grade 2 listed Yew Tree Farmhouse. We have the complete house at our disposal, so you can use the complete house during your stay, the sitting room, the dining room, the enclosed garden and the kitchen to make a cup of tea or coffee, for example. All meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner, will be provided in true English Farmhouse style. If you are vegetarian, or have any other diet or allergies, please let me know in advance. You can have unlimited coffee, tea and water. At breakfast and lunch I serve homemade lemonade and/or fruit juice and at dinner a glass of wine (or lemonade or fruit juice). If you want something else to drink, you can bring your own. I will also provide treats such as homemade cake, scones and biscuits. Furthermore, for those who like it, there is a hot tub available exclusively for guests of Yew Tree Farmhouse.
Downstairs, the farmhouse has a cosy sitting room with fireplace and a dining room, also with fireplace. The beautiful oak staircase has 250-year-old panelling and leads to the three charming, comfortable bedrooms with custom-made beds and beautiful antique furnishings befitting the farmhouse. All rooms have their own bathrooms. Below you can see which rooms are available. Room 1 and 3 are rooms with a double bed. If you come alone and would like one of these rooms you pay €2750 for the complete trip (i.e. including food, all visits and entrances and guided walks etc.) - If you come as a couple and use one of these two rooms together you pay €2475 per person for the complete trip. Room 2 is a room with two single beds, ideal if you want to go with a friend and share a room. The price for this room for 2 people is, for the complete trip €2475 per person. Should you wish to book this room alone, the price for the complete trip is €2750,- although I will initially hold this room for two people.
You can book until 31 March 2025. Directly after booking you pay €850 per person as a deposit, the remaining amount you pay no later than 1 June 2025*
Find out more about Yew Tree Farm on the page: Staying at Yew Tree Farm
Room 1
Room 1 is a room with a double four poster bed with adjoining bathroom (double bath, washbasin and toilet/floor heating) There are down duvets and pillows.
If you use the room alone then the price of the complete trip is €2750,- if you come as a couple and use the room as a couple then the price of the complete trip is €2475,- per person.
If you use the room alone then the price of the complete trip is €2750,- if you come as a couple and use the room as a couple then the price of the complete trip is €2475,- per person.
Room 2
Room 2 is a room with two single beds with en-suite bathroom (rain shower, sink and toilet/heated floor) There are down duvets and pillows.
Ideal to share with a friend to take this special trip together. The price for the complete trip with this room based on two people is €2475 per person.
Ideal to share with a friend to take this special trip together. The price for the complete trip with this room based on two people is €2475 per person.
Room 3
Room 3 is a room with a double four poster bed with en-suite bathroom (rain shower, sink and toilet/heated floor) There are down duvets and pillows.
If you use the room alone then the price of the complete trip is €2750,- if you come as a couple and use the room as a couple then the price of the complete trip is €2475 per person.
If you use the room alone then the price of the complete trip is €2750,- if you come as a couple and use the room as a couple then the price of the complete trip is €2475 per person.
Included:
- Four nights in the beautiful Grade II listed Yew Tree Farmhouse in Coniston
- Four nights homecooked English farmhouse dinner
- Full breakfast and lunch, the Farmhouse way, one or two picknick-lunches (if the weather allows it)
- Tea, coffee, water and homemade lemonade in het Farmhouse
- Fruit juice and dairy with breakfast and lunch a glass of wine with dinner (or Alle entrees/ homemade lemonade)
- Engelse lekkernijen zoals shortbread koekjes, scones en cakes
- All entrance fees
- All transport for the tour
- Visit to Beatrix Potters Hill Top, home and garden
- Guided walks through Beatrix Potter’s Lake District
- Visit to the old market town Hawkshead
- Herdwick Experience on Yew Tree Farm, get to know the Lake District Herdwick sheep guided by Jo Mc Grath, co-farmer and artist on Yew Tree Farm
- Full trip guiding by Anna Rubingh
- Enough time to relax in and around Yew Tree Farm.
- A visit to Alison O’Neill, shepherdess incl. morining coffee, tea, scones and cakes and a tour on her ‘One Woman Farm’
- Lunch on the last day at Fairfield Mill in Sedbergh, an old wool mill, now a place for artists to have their studio and show their work, with a nice shop to buy that beautiful local artwork
- Optional (and not included) a walk on Friday afternoon guided by Alison O’Neill, shepherdess in the Yorkshire Dales, the place where she grew up and lived all her life.
Not included:
- Travel to and from the Lake District (zie reiswijzer voor reistips)
- Extra drinks
- Travel insurance
- personal expences
- An optional walk on Friday afternoon guided by Alison O’Neill, shepherdess in her Yorkshire Dales
Att: . Although I am a professional photographer, this is NOT a photography trip. You can shoot beautiful photos while on this trip, and I can give you some tips and tricks, the focus of this trip is discovering Beatrix Potter's Lake District.
I would love to come!
Booking information
You can book this special trip until March 31, 2025 through the button with which you send me an email, or send me a separate email: anna@annarubingh.com. In that email, tell me which room you would like to book and whether you are booking for one or two people. Please also let me know your details, which I will use to create an invoice for you. After joining by email, you will receive a confirmation with an invoice. You initially pay a deposit of €850 (pp). With this you reserve your place on this special trip. I request that you make the deposit within 2 days, because there is limited space on this trip and it is therefore good for other potential interested parties to know whether there is still space and whether a certain room is still available. After I have received your deposit, you will receive a confirmation of participation. You can book this trip until March 31st.
After March 31st, participants will receive a second invoice for the remaining amount. You must pay this amount before June 1st, 2025. The trip is guaranteed to go ahead when 4 people have registered and paid the deposit. If there are not enough registrations on April 1st, 2025, the trip will unfortunately not go ahead and participants who have registered and paid a deposit will receive their deposit back.
If you want to cancel the trip yourself at a certain point, you will unfortunately not receive the deposit back, if you cancel after June 1st, 2025, you will not receive the entire payed amount back, unless there is another participant who would like to take your place on the trip. In that case, you will receive the amount you paid in the second invoice back, the deposit (€850) will not be returned. If there is no other participant, you will unfortunately not receive anything back. If I, Anna Rubingh, am forced to cancel the trip due to circumstances, you will of course receive the entire amount back.
Extra practical information
I have made many trips to the English Lake District and know the area we are going well. This area is fantastic to walk in, there are many beautiful routes. The routes that I chose for this trip are truely in the footsteps of Beatrix Potter. The area around Near Sawrey, where Hill Top is and Beatrix Potter lived and a little further around Yew Tree Farm where we are staying is hilly, but the walks are easy, we do not walk through very steep climbing terrain, they are nice relaxed walks of an average of 1 to 2 hours, sometimes a bit shorter. The walks can of course be adapted to the participants. A reasonably good basic condition is of course good to have, but you do not have to be a trained long-distance walker.
Of course it is not a walking holiday, we will do several varied activities and visits, but walking is a beautiful part of this special trip. And, while walking you see much more, you take in the surroundings much better and you get to places you would not get to otherwise.
In any case, take good walking shoes/ boots, warm socks and suitable clothing. Although the weather is often nice in September, we are in the Lake District and there can be a shower. It is useful to dress in layers, so you can take some off when it is warmer and put some on when it is colder. A raincoat is also handy to take with you.
In any case, take good walking shoes/ boots, warm socks and suitable clothing. Although the weather is often nice in September, we are in the Lake District and there can be a shower. It is useful to dress in layers, so you can take some off when it is warmer and put some on when it is colder. A raincoat is also handy to take with you.
Food
All meals are included and cooked by me. I love the English farmhouse kitchen that is known for its delicious pies, stews, crumbles, cookies and cakes. I regularly develop, cook and photograph culinary series for magazines, so I am more than at home in the kitchen. I provide a delicious breakfast, a nice lunch and a delicious Farmhouse dinner every day. On the first day I will receive you in the afternoon in the Farmhouse with coffee, tea and delicious cakes and cookies and in the evening you will eat your first Farmhouse dinner of the trip. I am really looking forward to cooking those meals! The rest of the week I serve breakfast, lunch and a Farmhouse dinner in the evening. There is unlimited coffee, tea, water and homemade lemonade available and at breakfast I serve fruit juice and dairy in addition to coffee and tea, at lunch I serve coffee, tea and fruit juice or homemade lemonade and in the evening there is a glass of wine, together with water, fruit juice or lemonade, for those who like it. If you want to drink something else during your stay, please bring it with you.
I cook with mainly organic, with good and healthy products. If you are a vegetarian, let me know in advance, that is no problem.
I cook with mainly organic, with good and healthy products. If you are a vegetarian, let me know in advance, that is no problem.
On Friday, the last day, we leave the beautiful Lake District, to go just over the border of the National Park to the Yorkshire Dales to visit shepherdess, Alison O'Neill. She welcomes us with coffee, tea, scones and cakes and shows us around the farm. We have lunch at Farfield Mill, an old wool mill where, in addition to a museum, local artists and craftsmen now work and exhibit. After lunch the trip ends, but for those who want, shepherdess Alison will gladly take you on a walk through her Yorkshire Dales. (not included in the price)
If you want to stay a bit longer and if you need help with the how and what, I will gladly help you.
If you want to stay a bit longer and if you need help with the how and what, I will gladly help you.
If you have any further questions, please let me know! Send me an email anna@annarubingh.com
