We really enjoyed our week in Kaz and Chris’s home, fascinating design features including hot and cold running badgers. Mave, we are told, is the pret...
Read More...Pat & Douglas
Canada
31 aug. 2023 - 22 sep. 2023
Deelnemer geworden in 2011
Vervaldatum 30/Aug/2024
We are now committed for 2024 and 2025. We may be able to work in a few long weekends in 25 for the UK.
We are a retired Probation Officer and self-employed Project writer We enjoy walking, the country side, coastal sites, most landscapes, nature, city breaks, music and live gigs, travel and exploring. *Please note Chris is allergic to cats.* Our required pet care are some coldwater fish and wild badgers.
Interesse
Tuinieren,
Wandelen,
Wijnliefhebbers,
Gastronomie,
Kunst,
Yoga / meditatie,
Muziek
MeerMinderVoorkeuren
Gepensioneerden,
Senioren,
Gezinshulp,
Techniek,
Kunst / cultuur,
Wetenschap / onderzoek,
Vrijwilligers / maatschappelijk
MeerMinderBeroep
Probation Officer (Gepensioneerd)
Pat & Douglas
Canada
Sharon
United Kingdom
We really enjoyed our week in Kaz and Chris’s home, fascinating design features including hot and cold running badgers. Mave, we are told, is the pret...
Read More...We really enjoyed our week in Kaz and Chris’s home, fascinating design features including hot and cold running badgers. Mave, we are told, is the pretty one but Dave also looked pretty good to me. Other highlights included walking the Roches, and visits to Chatsworth and Buxton. Leek itself has a lovely vibe and we were pinned down in the museum for an hour by a passing thunderstorm, time well spent. Duck Goose, in Leek, was very good for dinner one night. A most enjoyable swap, made very easy by Kaz and Chris, thanks again.
Read Less...Paul and Jean
United Kingdom
Kaz and Chris's home could hardly be more different from our cottage, being modern, open-plan and very spacious, but it was welcoming and very comfort...
Read More...Kaz and Chris's home could hardly be more different from our cottage, being modern, open-plan and very spacious, but it was welcoming and very comfortable. We were treated to nightly visits from badgers who came to eat peanuts on the patio and to a cock pheasant who came each morning to be fed dried mealworms. The weather wasn't kind, but we explored Leek on foot - getting soaked in the process - and re-visited Little Moreton Hall, a beautiful Tudor house cared for by the National Trust. We also re-visited Buxton on the last day of our exchange. On our 45th wedding anniversary we met friends for lunch at The Lazy Trout at Meerbrook, which had been recommended by Kaz and Chris and the following day we were invited by other friends for lunch at their home in Foxt, a village not far from Leek. All in all, a very enjoyable exchange and one we can thoroughly recommend. Mustn't forget the prosecco and lovely banana bread - for which many thanks!
Read Less...Mark
United Kingdom
Kaz and Chris have the perfect base for the Peak District, our new favourite national park. Not only that but the wildlife comes to their garden inclu...
Read More...Kaz and Chris have the perfect base for the Peak District, our new favourite national park. Not only that but the wildlife comes to their garden including badgers! Finally their self build house would do Kevin McCloud proud and we loved the space and tasteful artwork and furnishings too.
Read Less...William and Pauline
United Kingdom
Henry & Ruth
United Kingdom
Kaz and Chris were wonderful, generous hosts and their home was such a treat to stay in. They were good, responsive communicators and very gracious ...
Read More...Kaz and Chris were wonderful, generous hosts and their home was such a treat to stay in. They were good, responsive communicators and very gracious and understanding over an item that was accidentally broken. Lovely people and a self built home most would give their right arm for! thank you both so much. Henry and Ruth & family
Read Less...Peter
United Kingdom
This property is highly recommended – a “grand designs” project over four years carried out by the owners Kaz and Chris. You can read all about their ...
Read More...This property is highly recommended – a “grand designs” project over four years carried out by the owners Kaz and Chris. You can read all about their labour of love in a photobook and enjoy the fruits of their labour in their comfortable, light and spacious home, with all mod cons. The house overlooks the garden – with fairy lights at night and together with the resident badgers who visit each evening. We enjoyed their music system and CD collection, plus TV corner. We appreciated the home made cake as a welcome gift. We are just returning to home exchanging and Kaz could not have been more helpful showing us the way to making life easy for swappers! They had left out maps, guide books, eating out suggestions and even told us about a cinema run in the Arts Centre in Leek. We enjoyed a film night there. The area offers lots to explore – the Staffordshire Moorlands, Buxton, Dovedale, National Trust properties. We cannot imagine anyone not enjoying this property and the area. Thank you most sincerely to Kaz and Chris. Fiona & Peter Rhodes
Read Less...Charlotte
United Kingdom
Kaz is just the best - a professional home exchanger with a great sense of humour. The house is a dream - spacious, comfortable and Mave and Dave, th...
Read More...Kaz is just the best - a professional home exchanger with a great sense of humour. The house is a dream - spacious, comfortable and Mave and Dave, the badger nightly visitors make the exchange irresistible. We loved Leek (the shops, the market, the art gallery) and explored the beautiful area by car. Highly recommended!
Read Less...Simon and Jane
United Kingdom
We enjoyed a super break over the New Year period with friends joining us to celebrate New Year's Eve together, at Chris and Kaz's light, very modern ...
Read More...We enjoyed a super break over the New Year period with friends joining us to celebrate New Year's Eve together, at Chris and Kaz's light, very modern and peaceful home in Leek. Super showers and bath, open plan lounge, diner, kitchen, large patio, electric blinds, friendly neighbours and it felt as if we were in the woods, with birds, badgers, squirrels and attractive trees in the garden or over the hedge. It was for us, the ideal base for walking or cycling around the pretty Staffordshire Moorlands, where we took in the Roaches, Tittesworth Reservoir, Ridyard Lake and Bidulph Grange National Trust. Thank you both.
Read Less...Sarah
United Kingdom
Loved the house, the historic market town of Leek, as well as feeding Dave the badger each evening. A truly amazing space and beautiful modernist desi...
Read More...Loved the house, the historic market town of Leek, as well as feeding Dave the badger each evening. A truly amazing space and beautiful modernist design. The October weather was rather poor so Leek was an excellent base, as plenty of museums and quaint towns and cities to visit eg Ashbourne, Stoke on Trent for potteries, Buxton for its historic spa as well as Georgian Derby for the Joseph Wright paintings and Arbour Low stone circle. We walked the glorious Dove Valley on the one perfect autumn day, and regretted not hiking the Roaches and Tissington Trail, but the cloud was down and wouldn't have been safe. Had no idea this part of Peak District was so pretty. The pub and music scene seems thriving in Leek, loads of lovely old pubs and would certainly recommend The Lazy Trout, the Reform and well as music in the Cock.
Read Less...Carole & Stan
United Kingdom
Kaz and Chris were easy to communicate with and went the extra mile to ensure we had a good holiday. The house is lovely, very 'Grand Designs', and th...
Read More...Kaz and Chris were easy to communicate with and went the extra mile to ensure we had a good holiday. The house is lovely, very 'Grand Designs', and the badger that visits every night was an added bonus. There was plenty to do nearby, for both adults and children, including Alton Towers. Our small grandchildren especially enjoyed the Peak Wildlife Park and then Dimensions water park in Stoke, my husband and I enjoyed a stroll round the house and gardens of Lyme House, and the towns of Bakewell and Buxton, and my daughter and son-in-law hiked up The Roaches, and enjoyed a walk to Lud Church. A great exchange, thank you Chris and Kaz.
Read Less...Gill
United Kingdom
Kaz and Chris couldn't have made us more welcome. The house is beautiful inside and out, as well as being comfortable and spacious. Lots to see and ...
Read More...Kaz and Chris couldn't have made us more welcome. The house is beautiful inside and out, as well as being comfortable and spacious. Lots to see and do in the area. A short but very successful exchange.
Read Less...Laura
United Kingdom
We were made to feel so welcome. Kaz and Chris really put lots of thought into the exchange. The house is remarkable and so comfortable. The area is g...
Read More...We were made to feel so welcome. Kaz and Chris really put lots of thought into the exchange. The house is remarkable and so comfortable. The area is gorgeous and there are lots of things to see and so. I recommend this exchange highly.
Read Less...Liz and Jeff
United Kingdom
We spent a lovely weekend in Kaz and Chris’ beautiful home, and Leek is a hidden gem! A very friendly town with lots of great antique shops, markets, ...
Read More...We spent a lovely weekend in Kaz and Chris’ beautiful home, and Leek is a hidden gem! A very friendly town with lots of great antique shops, markets, good pubs and places to eat. We had a the added bonus of a music festival! Watching the badgers was also a special treat. Thank you for looking after our home and the hens so well.
Read Less...Bob
United Kingdom
Kaz & Chris's home is particularly fine, with its open plan style, it is light and very comfortable. The garden which is large and well kept provides ...
Read More...Kaz & Chris's home is particularly fine, with its open plan style, it is light and very comfortable. The garden which is large and well kept provides with the patio ample area to sit outdoors. Several of their neighbours stopped & spoke to us and advised us where to eat and so forth. All in all it was a most agreeable exchange. Highly recommended.
Read Less...Kathy
United Kingdom
Graham and Sue
United Kingdom
Alan & Sheila
United Kingdom
Simultane huizenruil
Weekend-huizenruil
Verzorging huisdieren gevraagd
Roken is niet toegestaan
Liever geen kinderen
Gebruik van auto aangeboden / bespreekbaar
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1 jan. 2024 - 30 sep. 2024 | California, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
Beschrijving van het huis dat wij aanbieden voor ruil
Lots of glass, secluded garden, quiet neighbourhood. Plenty of birds and badgers in the garden.
Soort
Huis met verdiepingen/ Hoofdverblijf
Voorzieningen
Vermaak
Extra's
Omgeving
Beschrijving van onze buurt en omgeving
Our home is in a cul-de-sac. It sits in a secluded garden surrounded by trees. In the summer the field next door has cows grazing and they like to look over the dry stone wall at us on occasion. Our neighbours are of the older generation so it is fairly quiet. It is a 5 minute walk to the nearest large supermarket and 10 minute walk to a busy market town with all amenities.
For further information go to www.staffsmoorlands.gov.uk
Activiteiten buitenshuis
Vrije tijd
Culturele activiteiten
Nabij openbaar vervoer
Buurtvoorzieningen
Onze tips voor leuke activiteiten en uitjes bij ons in de buurt
A 10 minute walk and you are in the beautiful historic town of Leek. Old black and white buildings, cafes, bars, restaurants, pubs with real ale, individual independent shops, antique emporiums, markets and an arts centre, library and tourist information office on the 1st floor of the iconic Nicholson Institute building on Stockwell Street Tel: 01538483741. There are also several Doctors surgeries and dentists. For the children a park with a play area and skate board park, band stand and a leisure centre with swimming pool. There are 2 Golf courses both 5 minutes drive away from our home or a 10/15 minute walk to Leek Golf Club 01538 384779 and Westwood Golf Club 01538 398385, day visitors welcome at both. 10 minutes down the road is the Churnet Valley Railway https://www.churnetvalleyrailway.co.uk/events/whats-on Ride the steam train, enjoy breakfast, lunch or just a trip. The Roaches a steep outcrop of rocks for those who want to climb or just go for an exhilarating walk is a10 minute drive. Ashbourne, Buxton, Bakewell are all easy driving and Chatsworth House is a 45 minute drive. You can walk from the house to explore Ladderidge Country Park, a part of the Staffordshire Way and also the Cauldon Canal to walk on the canal towpath. Rudyard lake with its own train is 10 minutes away, Tittersworth reservoir 10 minutes away with its own water sports area.
We are willing to share our car as local transport is not impossible but a little more difficult. Leek is in the Staffordshire Moorlands and 20 mins drive brings you to the best walking country you will experience anywhere, Derbyshire and the Peak District. Chatsworth House is an amazing stately home. We are about half an hour from Alton Towers, a theme park with the largest roller-coaster, a must for young and old alike and beautiful gardens is 25 mins. Biddulph Grange (National Trust) fabulous gardens and cafe 20 mins. Manchester is 50 minutes drive, 2 train stations are 30 mins away, Macclesfield and Stoke, take the train to London 1 hour 30 minutes from Stoke-On-Trent.
Staffordshire and Stoke-On-Trent is renowned for its pottery and is known as the Potteries. It is also renowned for its six towns. Visit the Wedgewood Centre (Josiah Wedgewood), Middleport Pottery famous for Burleigh, Emma Bridgewater, MoorCroft and The Gladstone Pottery (owned by Prince Charles and TV show 'The great pottery throwdown' is filmed) museum in Longton and see the bottle kilns whilst learning what a sagger makers bottom knocker's job entailed.
20 minutes drive and you are in the Peak District, Derbyshire with too many walks to mention here.
Onze favoriete restaurants
Gezellige cafés en kroegjes
Bijzondere winkels
Vrijetijd en culturele activiteiten
Wandelgebieden en trimparcours
Sport- en Fitnessclub
Leuke uitstapjes
Wat we graag willen of wat juist niet...
Please leave the house as you find it. We are not connected to the main sewers so it is important that nothing other than toilet paper is put down the loos and the eco friendly cleaning products provided are used. eg, Washing up liquid, clothes detergent, toilet cleaner and surface cleaner.
Voorwaarden
Gebruik van auto
Ruilsoort
Deelnemer geworden in 2011
Vervaldatum 30/Aug/2024
We are now committed for 2024 and 2025. We may be able to work in a few long weekends in 25 for the UK.
We are a retired Probation Officer and self-employed Project writer We enjoy walking, the country side, coastal sites, most landscapes, nature, city breaks, music and live gigs, travel and exploring. *Please note Chris is allergic to cats.* Our required pet care are some coldwater fish and wild badgers.
Interesse
Tuinieren,
Wandelen,
Wijnliefhebbers,
Gastronomie,
Kunst,
Yoga / meditatie,
Muziek
MeerMinderVoorkeuren
Gepensioneerden,
Senioren,
Gezinshulp,
Techniek,
Kunst / cultuur,
Wetenschap / onderzoek,
Vrijwilligers / maatschappelijk
MeerMinderBeroep
Probation Officer (Gepensioneerd)
Pat & Douglas
Canada
Sharon
United Kingdom
We really enjoyed our week in Kaz and Chris’s home, fascinating design features including hot and cold running badgers. Mave, we are told, is the pret...
Read More...We really enjoyed our week in Kaz and Chris’s home, fascinating design features including hot and cold running badgers. Mave, we are told, is the pretty one but Dave also looked pretty good to me. Other highlights included walking the Roches, and visits to Chatsworth and Buxton. Leek itself has a lovely vibe and we were pinned down in the museum for an hour by a passing thunderstorm, time well spent. Duck Goose, in Leek, was very good for dinner one night. A most enjoyable swap, made very easy by Kaz and Chris, thanks again.
Read Less...Paul and Jean
United Kingdom
Kaz and Chris's home could hardly be more different from our cottage, being modern, open-plan and very spacious, but it was welcoming and very comfort...
Read More...Kaz and Chris's home could hardly be more different from our cottage, being modern, open-plan and very spacious, but it was welcoming and very comfortable. We were treated to nightly visits from badgers who came to eat peanuts on the patio and to a cock pheasant who came each morning to be fed dried mealworms. The weather wasn't kind, but we explored Leek on foot - getting soaked in the process - and re-visited Little Moreton Hall, a beautiful Tudor house cared for by the National Trust. We also re-visited Buxton on the last day of our exchange. On our 45th wedding anniversary we met friends for lunch at The Lazy Trout at Meerbrook, which had been recommended by Kaz and Chris and the following day we were invited by other friends for lunch at their home in Foxt, a village not far from Leek. All in all, a very enjoyable exchange and one we can thoroughly recommend. Mustn't forget the prosecco and lovely banana bread - for which many thanks!
Read Less...Mark
United Kingdom
Kaz and Chris have the perfect base for the Peak District, our new favourite national park. Not only that but the wildlife comes to their garden inclu...
Read More...Kaz and Chris have the perfect base for the Peak District, our new favourite national park. Not only that but the wildlife comes to their garden including badgers! Finally their self build house would do Kevin McCloud proud and we loved the space and tasteful artwork and furnishings too.
Read Less...William and Pauline
United Kingdom
Henry & Ruth
United Kingdom
Kaz and Chris were wonderful, generous hosts and their home was such a treat to stay in. They were good, responsive communicators and very gracious ...
Read More...Kaz and Chris were wonderful, generous hosts and their home was such a treat to stay in. They were good, responsive communicators and very gracious and understanding over an item that was accidentally broken. Lovely people and a self built home most would give their right arm for! thank you both so much. Henry and Ruth & family
Read Less...Peter
United Kingdom
This property is highly recommended – a “grand designs” project over four years carried out by the owners Kaz and Chris. You can read all about their ...
Read More...This property is highly recommended – a “grand designs” project over four years carried out by the owners Kaz and Chris. You can read all about their labour of love in a photobook and enjoy the fruits of their labour in their comfortable, light and spacious home, with all mod cons. The house overlooks the garden – with fairy lights at night and together with the resident badgers who visit each evening. We enjoyed their music system and CD collection, plus TV corner. We appreciated the home made cake as a welcome gift. We are just returning to home exchanging and Kaz could not have been more helpful showing us the way to making life easy for swappers! They had left out maps, guide books, eating out suggestions and even told us about a cinema run in the Arts Centre in Leek. We enjoyed a film night there. The area offers lots to explore – the Staffordshire Moorlands, Buxton, Dovedale, National Trust properties. We cannot imagine anyone not enjoying this property and the area. Thank you most sincerely to Kaz and Chris. Fiona & Peter Rhodes
Read Less...Charlotte
United Kingdom
Kaz is just the best - a professional home exchanger with a great sense of humour. The house is a dream - spacious, comfortable and Mave and Dave, th...
Read More...Kaz is just the best - a professional home exchanger with a great sense of humour. The house is a dream - spacious, comfortable and Mave and Dave, the badger nightly visitors make the exchange irresistible. We loved Leek (the shops, the market, the art gallery) and explored the beautiful area by car. Highly recommended!
Read Less...Simon and Jane
United Kingdom
We enjoyed a super break over the New Year period with friends joining us to celebrate New Year's Eve together, at Chris and Kaz's light, very modern ...
Read More...We enjoyed a super break over the New Year period with friends joining us to celebrate New Year's Eve together, at Chris and Kaz's light, very modern and peaceful home in Leek. Super showers and bath, open plan lounge, diner, kitchen, large patio, electric blinds, friendly neighbours and it felt as if we were in the woods, with birds, badgers, squirrels and attractive trees in the garden or over the hedge. It was for us, the ideal base for walking or cycling around the pretty Staffordshire Moorlands, where we took in the Roaches, Tittesworth Reservoir, Ridyard Lake and Bidulph Grange National Trust. Thank you both.
Read Less...Sarah
United Kingdom
Loved the house, the historic market town of Leek, as well as feeding Dave the badger each evening. A truly amazing space and beautiful modernist desi...
Read More...Loved the house, the historic market town of Leek, as well as feeding Dave the badger each evening. A truly amazing space and beautiful modernist design. The October weather was rather poor so Leek was an excellent base, as plenty of museums and quaint towns and cities to visit eg Ashbourne, Stoke on Trent for potteries, Buxton for its historic spa as well as Georgian Derby for the Joseph Wright paintings and Arbour Low stone circle. We walked the glorious Dove Valley on the one perfect autumn day, and regretted not hiking the Roaches and Tissington Trail, but the cloud was down and wouldn't have been safe. Had no idea this part of Peak District was so pretty. The pub and music scene seems thriving in Leek, loads of lovely old pubs and would certainly recommend The Lazy Trout, the Reform and well as music in the Cock.
Read Less...Carole & Stan
United Kingdom
Kaz and Chris were easy to communicate with and went the extra mile to ensure we had a good holiday. The house is lovely, very 'Grand Designs', and th...
Read More...Kaz and Chris were easy to communicate with and went the extra mile to ensure we had a good holiday. The house is lovely, very 'Grand Designs', and the badger that visits every night was an added bonus. There was plenty to do nearby, for both adults and children, including Alton Towers. Our small grandchildren especially enjoyed the Peak Wildlife Park and then Dimensions water park in Stoke, my husband and I enjoyed a stroll round the house and gardens of Lyme House, and the towns of Bakewell and Buxton, and my daughter and son-in-law hiked up The Roaches, and enjoyed a walk to Lud Church. A great exchange, thank you Chris and Kaz.
Read Less...Gill
United Kingdom
Kaz and Chris couldn't have made us more welcome. The house is beautiful inside and out, as well as being comfortable and spacious. Lots to see and ...
Read More...Kaz and Chris couldn't have made us more welcome. The house is beautiful inside and out, as well as being comfortable and spacious. Lots to see and do in the area. A short but very successful exchange.
Read Less...Laura
United Kingdom
We were made to feel so welcome. Kaz and Chris really put lots of thought into the exchange. The house is remarkable and so comfortable. The area is g...
Read More...We were made to feel so welcome. Kaz and Chris really put lots of thought into the exchange. The house is remarkable and so comfortable. The area is gorgeous and there are lots of things to see and so. I recommend this exchange highly.
Read Less...Liz and Jeff
United Kingdom
We spent a lovely weekend in Kaz and Chris’ beautiful home, and Leek is a hidden gem! A very friendly town with lots of great antique shops, markets, ...
Read More...We spent a lovely weekend in Kaz and Chris’ beautiful home, and Leek is a hidden gem! A very friendly town with lots of great antique shops, markets, good pubs and places to eat. We had a the added bonus of a music festival! Watching the badgers was also a special treat. Thank you for looking after our home and the hens so well.
Read Less...Bob
United Kingdom
Kaz & Chris's home is particularly fine, with its open plan style, it is light and very comfortable. The garden which is large and well kept provides ...
Read More...Kaz & Chris's home is particularly fine, with its open plan style, it is light and very comfortable. The garden which is large and well kept provides with the patio ample area to sit outdoors. Several of their neighbours stopped & spoke to us and advised us where to eat and so forth. All in all it was a most agreeable exchange. Highly recommended.
Read Less...Kathy
United Kingdom
Graham and Sue
United Kingdom
Alan & Sheila
United Kingdom
Beautiful home for exploring the Dales
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