Peter's place is super relaxed so you immediately feel like it's your home for the stay. Perhaps it helps that he's an evident Anglophile, has stacks of books and a ton of tennis memorabilia - all guaranteed to endear him to us.
Everything worked very intuitively and the location meant we seemed to be within 30 mins from any sight we wanted to be and breathing the lovely hillside air.
I found the steep drive a bit scary with an unfamiliar hire car so most of the time we left it on the street with no problems.