A simple break – Log Cabin holidays

One of the truly wonderful things about booking log cabin holidays, getaway, retreats or corporate get togethers is the history. Unlike modern structures which often have very little character and even fewer stories to tell, log cabins are traditionally made by hand, sometimes by the community and almost always, if the walls could speak there would be stories to tell. That is because a log cabin simply isn’t the kind of accommodation one books just to have a place to stay. Rather there is an expectation that memories will be made in a log cabin.

There is sentimentality too, about log cabin holidays, which is easy to feel when you stay in one. Traditionally these were the foundation homes of pioneers, settlers and people who had endured great struggle to come to their patch of earth. Often the log cabin would be the starter home for a family which would grow and with it other dwellings and structures would grow around. Historically log construction has its roots in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Although their origin is uncertain, the first log structures were probably built in Northern Europe in the Bronze Age. As such log cabins are often the oldest and most sentimental places a person might stay.

It’s for these reasons that log cabins remain in fashion as a favoured retreat. It isn’t because there aren’t more modern structures with an abundance of amenities available. No, it is because people often like to return to that sense of a simpler time. To the nostalgia of days gone by and although most log cabins today have all the modern appliances, sometimes people even want to return to a time when they had to get up to light a lamp or chop some wood. There is something special and timeless about log cabins that will never fade from our sense of who we are and where we came from.