Well the first guests of the 2013 season have arrived. They were lucky to arrive in brilliant sunshine, although a chilly easterly wind.  Its always lovely to meet new people and our first guests of 2013 arrived today and were delighted to find that I had already lit the wood burning stove so their yurt was lovely and warm ready for their arrival.  It is always a pleasure when showing new people around our yurt camp, particularly when you realize that you have exceeded their glamping expectations.  Yurts are fantastic organic spaces and our wood burning stoves are very efficient at heating the space inside.  The stoves were made locally by Martin Champion of Champion Stove Company at Broadhempston and they are perfectly sized for our yurts.  Since this year has had the coldest March on record I have lit the stove in each yurt every day since we put them up and this keeps the yurts aired and warm. We supply a generous number of logs and kindling for our guests and the stove can be kept going for as long as they need to.  Each yurt is very well insulated with sheep felt lining and outer canvas covers.  In Mongolia where our yurts originate from, the climate is very much colder and drier than that in the UK.   The easterly winds that have dominated our weather recently has brought us very much colder weather then you would normally expect in the South West for this time of year.   Although we are lucky to have escaped the ice, snow and blizzards that has affected much of the country over the past couple of weeks.

Well this weekend has been brilliant.  With the help of my husband, sons and several other members of my family, we have managed to bring our yurts out of their winter quarters, in our storage barn erected up on their bases ready for the first guests at Easter.  Yesterday was a blustery day with some showers, but today has been lovely and sunny.  Our family working party worked really hard and has managed to get both yurts put up and on the field in record time.  The yurts are a lovely space and are looking really great sitting on their decking bases.  Its quite amazing to think that the Mongolian people who actually live in these yurts can put them up and take them down really quickly when they are moving home.  We are getting used to putting them up and taking them down now, but we are lucky to have all sorts of mod cons to help us!