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Czech Republic farmstay accommodation

country:Czech Republic
location:Písarov near Zábreh, in the Jeseniky mountain range, 200 km east of Prague
price:From £14 (budget double room) - £28 (apartment, sleeps a couple or two couples who are good friends!) per person per night, including breakfast, coffee, tea and cold drinks during the day. Meals from £3 - £6 including wine.
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description
Beautiful isolated highland setting. Lovingly restored 500 year old smugglers Inn. We are trying to be as self-sufficient and as environmentally friendly as possible.

Guests can be happy that their food is all locally bought and grown or picked from the organic garden and prepared by hosts who are Slow and quality food enthusiasts.

We have no set menu! After discussing with guests we cook what’s fresh and available and what they fancy! And we throw in desert and wine! (Ex-Chef de cuisine, pub manageress, African eco-lodge managers).

Guests can also be happy that their holiday will have little impact on the local environment with the house having its own water supply, waste system, use of eco-friendly cleaning and washing products and recycling programme.

Perfect place for couples! Guests can have as much privacy as they wish, in the romantic apartment or private room and/or mix with the hosts. No noisy roads outside the house only fields and forests and hills where you can enjoy beautiful walks, cross-country skiing, cycling and more. The house has been lovingly restored retaining all the original charming comfortable warm and atmospheric character of the building.

After a day spent hiking or sightseeing guests can relax around real fires, snuggle up in their huge double beds or sit under the Cherry tree and sip Moravian wine. Nearby there are lots of places to visit: Sumperk and Lanskroun are two charming towns close by. Olomouc and Litomysl are two beautiful World heritage protected cities a day trip away. There are castles, museums, lakes and small villages all close by as well as the unspoilt mountain ranges. Your hosts can plan an itinerary for a Czech Rep tour and book hotels, tickets, hire skis and bikes and generally help guests have a pleasant stay in Czech Rep.



special things to do and see here

Skiiing near Czech Republic farmstay accommodation Walking and cycling: Right outside our door there are miles of walking, cycling and mountain biking opportunities from small relaxing country walks to more serious forest and mountain hiking. (There is a vast network of marked tracks for, cyclists and walkers.)

Skiing: There is the opportunity for fantastic cross-country skiing just outside the front door! Perfect for beginners. In the village are marked prepared tracks for longer more serious trips. There are a large number of excellent small and large downhill ski resorts nearby with snowboarding and tubing facilities also.

Other opportunities nearby include paragliding, kayaking, horse-riding and sightseeing, or just relaxing and eating good food.
travellers' tales
There were many memorable parts of our holiday at this accommodation. We could begin with the fabulous food that they prepare, including the breakfasts and suppers featuring locally grown or raised foods (from their garden or another local family producer). (more)
rooms, food and facilities
Bedroom at Czech Republic farmstay accommodationWe have one separate beautiful, charismatic apartment with its own entrance, hall, bathroom and toilet. The main room is a restored stone stables with arched ceilings, wooden floors and furniture and a free standing wood burning stove.

It has a sitting room and bedroom in the one large space and another connecting small room, with wooden beams and a dry stone wall, for relaxing, eating, writing or reading in. (Could be used as a double bedroom for another couple or possibly a separate room for a baby or toddler.)

There is another cosy double bedroom, also an old arched ceiling stable, with wooden floors and a free standing wood burning stove which has shared bathroom facilities. (It is possible guests will have their own bathroom but not connected to the room).

Living space at Czech Republic farmstay accommodationWe have a family dining room/lounge where meals are served and guests can relax. Meals can be served outside or in rooms also. All the furniture in the rooms was restored or rescued and is in keeping with the traditional old feel of the house.

There is free internet, free washing facilities and access to a large DVD and book collection. For artists there is a huge upstairs attic studio space which could be used for painting, sculpture etc. This is in progress so please enquire if you're interested. 

Baby friendly: There is the chance for couple to have a baby or a toddler in the connecting room in the apartment; close by but parents will have some privacy. We can baby sit if you want some free time.
how to find us

View from Czech Republic farmstay accommodationFrom Prague airport: Take the train to Zabreh (2.5 hours - we can pick you up from there) or take the bus to the pub at the bottom of the hill (3.5 hours). By car take the no.11 main road all the way to us.

From Brno airport: Take the train or bus from station to Zabreh (3.5 and 4 hours) or by car E462/E442 motorways.
how this holiday makes a difference
We grow a lot of our own food and buy local and/or organic products for the guests and ourselves. Our goal is to be as self-sufficient as possible and to use as little electricity and unnecessary amenities as possible. We are interested in promoting eco-friendly tourism and will encourage guests to visit and use places and do activities that are beneficial to the local community and friendly to the environment.

Bouzov castle, near Czech Republic farmstay accommodationWe are quite isolated and therefore are not dependent on local amenities apart from mains electricity i.e. No mains water supply, no access to mains sewage and drains, no rubbish collection. Our water comes from an underground spring, all sewage and grey water is treated in our own ecological treatment plant. Eco-friendly products are used for cleaning washing etc.

Our policy is to take what we need from natural resources and return it back into the land without adding any harmful chemicals. Low electric usage appliances are used wherever possible and wood is the main source of heating.

Because we have no rubbish collection we limit waste. All food leftovers go to the chickens or our compost heaps. Some paper is used for the lighting of fires. We recycle glass, tin, plastic, aluminium, cardboard and some paper as well as re-using metal, wood etc wherever we can.

We collaborate with the local people in up-keeping the local forests and maintaining the local pathways and roads and also clearing the paths of snow in the winter. We buy hand made baskets and wood and as much food as we can from our neighbours many of whom are old retired people who are glad of the extra income.

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