Deep in the countryside, steeped in Helen and Frank’s love of local tradition, history and architecture, Stable Cottage is a dream. The views across the fields, the changing light, the silence. Making a fire every morning before making coffee. It was hard to go out, though we did (during our two weeks there) walk on nearby Duncannon Beach and experience the drama of Hook Head over bowls of fish chowder. Then went happily home. Where every imaginative detail, inside and out, is the handiwork of either Frank or Helen, supremely considerate and sensitive hosts.