After residing a city, getting to spend a weekend at a secluded rural cottage will prove to be a welcome change for you and your family. It will prove to be an ideal setting where you can spend time with your family uninterrupted. They are available in various price ranges to suit your budget. It will give you a unique experience of tasting life away from the usual hustle and bustle of city life, close to nature. It will give you memories that are worth revisiting and narrating to your children. 

You can go for long walks, alone or with your family, to explore the countryside and then relax on the seemingly endless pastures and family holiday parks. If you have decided to go on a family vacation to Pembrokeshire and you love visiting parks, there are several quite secluded family holiday parks in Pembrokeshire that you can visit. 

Some of the distinct features of rural cottages are:

Furnishings – Furniture includes dining table, sitting arrangement to entertain guests in the living room, coffee table, armchairs and cupboards. The walls and the furniture are of natural materials, like stone and wood, to ensure that appear to be in sync with the surroundings. They have matte finishes to impart a rustic appearance to them. The pieces of furniture are heavy and reliable as they are made from solid wood. They can be plain or bear various designs (usually organic shapes), like leaves and flower. Vintage pieces of furniture also look authentic. They can also be painted with a coat of whitewash.

Floors – Wooden floors are difficult to maintain. They require to be polished often to ensure that they last long, thus, increasing the maintenance costs to a great extent. Therefore, the cost-effective solution to make the floors last long is to paint them white. The colors of the carpet and the rugs should be in co-ordination with the color of the floor. Therefore, opt for darker colors that are in contrast to the white floors. 

Colors – The colors that are best suited for the walls are neutral colors, like white, cream and beige, as well as light shades of primary colors, like green and yellow. Pale colors, like blue and pink are also common wall colors. The frames of window can be painted white to make the rooms appear bright as these cottages have dim lighting.  

Accessories – accessories need to be chosen carefully, so that the décor appears rural and authentic. The fabrics used for curtains, table linen, bed linen are of natural fabrics, like cotton and wool. The utensils are usually of stone, brass and copper. The cottages display accessories that are reflective of the region that they are located in. The accessories also differ on the landscape that the cottages are situated in. For example, a cottage situated along or in the vicinity of a beach can have a bowl of sea shells placed on the coffee table or paintings and photos of beaches decorated from the walls. 

The above details will give you some idea about the décor of a typical rural cottage.

Breakfast is a very important part of our diet. If you are following habit of avoiding or skipping your breakfast, here are some very important reasons why you should not.

If you want to getup in the morning, needs alot of energy to kick start a day. Only breakfast can boost you with this energy

If you are of those one who are still skipping your breakfast, now is the time to change. Some extremely important reasons Why you should never avoid breakfast?

1. Breakfast improves your metabolism:

Blood sugar level drops down in the morning. You need food that can provide you energy to get through the morning. Body needs fuel to keep it running and the night is the longest gap in the refuelling process. To make sure your metabolism keeps on going you need to have something within 2 hours of waking up.

2. Breakfast Keeps you on track if you are looking to lose weight:

Researchers have found that those who eat breakfast incline to maintain and lose weight. Though people skip breakfast in the promise of losing weight they tend to eat more during lunch or even choose unhealthier options later on which results into weight gain.

3. Helps to maintain insulin response:

Skipping meals leads to a hyper insulin response when calories are consumed later on. That means the level of insulin in blood is more than the glucose level which can lead to metabolic disorder. This in turn results in to fat accumulation.

4. Helps perform better and sharp at work/school:

Hungry employees and students don’t do any good at work/school. When you are hungry you are irritable and disinterested which reflects on your work too. Breakfast helps you to wake up and makes you attentive.

5. Burns those calories early in a day:

If you have breakfast you can burn those calories early! How is that? Well, instead of going hungry till lunch and then hogging on something loaded with calories with fewer hours left in the day to burn it consider refuelling yourself early and getting enough time to burn those calories. So as to burn the calories dont use the elevators instead stairs, as much as you can go through the stairs and if not possible choose the elevators at that time.

6. Aids in setting a good example:

If you have kids, you always want to set a good example for them. By having breakfast on time you will show the quality of leadership by example.

7. Gets you your essential nutrients first thing in the morning:

There are food which we have only as a part of our breakfast like cereals, fruits, corn and milk. If you bypass your breakfast you might never get those nutrients.

8. Skipping breakfast can make you grumpy:

If you have been skipping breakfast and are in bad mood, you probably should know why. Not having breakfast makes you grouchy. You might not even realise it and keep wondering why you are so irritable!

Apart from all these reasons to have your breakfast there are few things you should always keep in mind:
Never have dessert for breakfast, it will cause blood sugar loss later on and you will be tempted to eat even more.

Stay full, stay happy!