Travel
Where I grew up, an old house meant felt overshoes and a guide leading you from room to room. In Britain you can rent the whole thing for a week, key and all. This is what it is really like.
Every holiday cottage listing has a photograph of a fire in it, already going, glass clean, third log. Reading it properly is the difference between a warm week in February and a memorable disappointment.
Eleven tabs open in January and every cottage has started to look like the same cottage. What the photographs are not telling you, and how to read them properly.