Etiqueta: cabin
A floating cabin break on the Broads
95 Puntos de vista0 Comentarios0 Gustos
“Mum! I’m taking the boat out …” For a fraction of a second I hesitated … it would take more than a few days to shake off my city-dweller nerves about letting my child roam free. But that was exactly why – after the f...
Off-the-grid man jailed for refusing to vacate his New Hampshire cabin
61 Puntos de vista0 Comentarios0 Gustos
For almost three decades, 81-year-old David Lidstone has lived in the woods of New Hampshire along the Merrimack River in a small cabin adorned with solar panels. He has grown his own food, cut his own firewood and te...
Writer’s residence: a self-built cabin in the woods
74 Puntos de vista0 Comentarios0 Gustos
A room of one’s own and £500 a year”, Virginia Woolf famously claimed she needed in order to write. While Roald Dahl could only work in his garden house, where he sat in a worn-out armchair with a wooden plank on his ...
A stay in a cool cabin at the bottom of a Welsh garden – birdsong included
53 Puntos de vista0 Comentarios0 Gustos
Do you remember that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind in which Richard Dreyfuss starts to model Devils Tower out of mashed potato? Bien, something similar has taken place in real life in a hamlet in mid-Wal...
‘River Dave’, 81, says he won’t return to hermit lifestyle after cabin burns down – video
64 Puntos de vista0 Comentarios0 Gustos
David Lidstone, known locally as 'River Dave', lived an off-the-grid life for three decades until last week when his cabin burned down. En 15 mes de julio, Lidstone was jailed on a civil contempt sanction and was told he woul...
On top of the world: journey to the Lake District’s secret, movable cabin
38 Puntos de vista0 Comentarios0 Gustos
In the pitch-black depths of a winter night, we pull off a deserted lane in the north-west of the Lake District and swerve into a deeply muddy farm field, wheels spinning in the gloop. Stepping out into the blackness ...
Pioneer or squatter? YouTuber’s cabin sparks fight over Canada’s wilderness
22 Puntos de vista0 Comentarios0 Gustos
As much of North America was locked down during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Matty Clarke was in a boat full of supplies, motoring up the Yukon River. He was searching for wild lands where he could stri...