Travel
The Pig at Harlyn Bay
A Cornish farmhouse above the bay, dark-panelled rooms full of lamplight, and a walled kitchen garden in full June swing — the Pig does it again, this time with the sea at its back
Notes
The Pig checklist
A little map of every Pig scattered across the south — the ones we've slept in and the ones still on the list — drawn out across Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and beyond.
I keep writing these up one at a time — Harlyn Bay, Combe, the South Downs, the one in the wall — so I finally drew them all onto one map to see how they actually sit together, a little house sketched at each. The whole litter, strung out across the south coast from the Atlantic at Harlyn round to Bridge Place in Kent.
The darker houses are the ones we've visited. The pale ones are still on the list — on the farm, in the Cotswolds, near Bath, at Bridge Place — a quiet to-do for the rest of the year. Same trick every time: an old house, a walled kitchen garden, the garden feeding the kitchen feeding the plate. Worth chasing the whole set.
