If Middle Cottage is full, or if you are looking for a short break (or if you'd like to tack on an extra day to the beginning or the end of your week), why not opt for bed and breakfast with Christine, who looks after the cottage for me and does the change-overs?

She has made a room in her eighteenth-century farmhouse in the quiet village of Middleton into a completely self-contained bed-and-breakfast annexe. It even has a kitchen area with a microwave.

It's the ideal alternative (or supplement) to a week in the cottage, with Aldeburgh, Southwold, Minsmere and Dunwich all within easy reach. AND you get a cooked breakfast probably made with eggs laid by Christine's hen.