We can’t find the cottage.
When I booked our summer holiday - three nights at a cottage in Dorset, buried deep in the countryside but close to the coast - I didn't know it was going to be off-grid. Here's how it went...
We can’t find the cottage.
We’ve driven down long bumpy dirt roads taking us deep into the Dorset countryside and now, there’s a humble National Trust property in front of us and tracks shooting off in four directions.
One leads to a wide wooden gate with a sign on it: access to Gabriel’s Steps permanently closed. My husband pushes it open and disappears into the woodland beyond. I start to worry that this cottage might be too close to the edge of a cliff.
While he’s gone, an older woman appears at the door of the National Trust property. Are you ok, are you lost? she says.
