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Our Air BnB in Cornwall is pretty good. It's attached to the house of the people renting it out, but completely separate and the hosts are playing it exactly right. They said hello and told us to get in touch if we need anything but have otherwise left us to it. We've been at other properties where the owners are next door and get overly involved. If you want to be friends then let us stay in your house for free!
There are a couple of locked doors that presumably connect with their property. One of them has a padlock on our side but the other one doesn't. It is locked but we have no control over it.
You read stories of Air B n B hosts living on the other side of false walls or having secret cameras in the bedrooms, so although you have to trust your hosts are not weird perverts, there's a chance that some of them are.
There's another door that doesn't connect to the other part of the property that isn't locked but has a sticker on it saying "Do Not Open". Is there anyone in the world who will stay in a house with a door that says "Do Not Open" and not open the door? Not only will you want to check there's not a strange man living in there, but also you'll want to know why you're not allowed to open it. We could see there was no lock on it.
There was a rug up against the door which should mean that it would be hard to open from the other side, but even if it was dangerous we needed to know what was on the other side of the door. What would happen? Would we unleash an evil beyond our understanding? Or discover a wanking Cornish man?
It was a cupboard of electric stuff. I have to say I was slightly disappointed.
Today we stayed in the village, had lunch in the pub and then went for a walk as recommended by a sheet on our table. It took us out of the village, up a steep hill, past a fairy village and then out on to a country road where we saw a field of very big cows. Cows are bigger when they're close up. Who knew?
It was a walk that was estimated at 40 minutes but it took us an hour. The kids didn't really complain though. We were jealous of the size of the gardens of some of the houses. A couple of them were maybe 6 acres or more. I don't think this family would be happy living so far away from the shops and the train station though.
