City life, for many people, is completely fulfilling. There’s a sense of community and yet anonymity that can be found nowhere else but in a city, and that’s not to mention the sheer amount of activities there are to keep us entertained, the amount of job opportunities and amenities that lie right on our doorsteps.

Yet for a lot of city dwellers there’s something missing. The nagging feeling might rear its ugly head every few years, or every six months, but for most it’s a longing for peace and tranquility: a rest from the constant city energy. Luckily for those people, getting out to the countryside and into a self-catering holiday is easy.

A countryside holiday doesn’t have to mean staying in a quaint thatched roof cottage in Cornwall, or in the rain and wind of northern Scotland. There are all kinds of holidays, including activity holidays and even beach holidays in the UK that are remote and unimaginably quiet. Donkey Cottage in Rhydwyn, Anglesey for instance offers one double and two twin self-catering rooms on beautiful farmland, not a half an hour walk from Church Bay, and various surrounding small and private beaches. Anglesey is a particularly quiet and rural place.

If you’re an active kind of holidayer then don’t get swayed by the holiday parks and extreme sports resorts that are dotted around all over the place, unless you want to be back in a busy place surrounded by people all over again. There are activity-based holidays that are still located in rural areas, and while there will be people around, it’s not hard to get out there and on your own. In these cases, you might want to travel a bit further to a European ski resort (La Chapelle d’Abondance in the French Alps, for example).

Within the UK you could opt for a boating holiday or hire a canal boat for optimal views of the British countryside, whilst enjoying your own self-catering at the same time. The option is ideal if you get fed up of one place quickly, as you can simply sail on to the next town or village. Orienteering, hiking and horse riding are also rife within the UK, so don’t assume that a quiet, countryside holiday has to mean sitting around having picnics and watching birds (not that there’s anything wrong with that, you understand).

To put it simply, you shouldn’t need to jet off to a remote exotic island to ‘get away from it all’ nowadays. City life may be very far removed from living in the sticks, but it only takes a few hours to get there and still feel like you’re a million miles away.

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