It's "odds on for a barbecue summer", says the Met Office. Combine that with a weak pound and 2009 is fast becoming the year of the Great British Holiday – why pay for overpriced continental coffee when you could enjoy your breakfast at one of these fabulous British guesthouses?
Augill Castle in Cumbria has just been named the English Tourist Board's best English bed-and-breakfast retreat. Housed in a Victorian folly dating from 1841, the place has a distinctly Gothic feel, thanks to its turrets, stained-glass windows and four-poster beds. One room even boasts a four-poster bath.
This rather unusual house was once a correction facility for boys. Fortunately, the current owners seek only to indulge guests. The most striking room is the dining room, says Jane Knith in The Times, with its blue-panelled ceiling and large central table where guests dine together. "Breakfast, which rarely starts before nine and continues until the last person struggles downstairs, sees the table groaning with homemade bread, the best Cumberland bacon, local oak-smoked salmon and free-range eggs from the farm next door."
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