Fuzzy's Farm

There's plenty to do if you just want to stay close to base during your tipi trip: pick up maps from the owners for details of countryside strolls. It's also only half a mile from here to the Mad Squirrel Brewery for tours and tastings (and pizza), as well as a brewery shop selling award-wining beers; tours run on the last Saturday of the month. A walk of about three miles – or a drive of under 10 minutes – will have you at Berkhamsted, a handsome market town with over 80 listed buildings and several antique shops. Film fans may want to catch a show at Berkhamsted's Rex Cinema, hailed as Britain's best cinema and described as 'absolutely awe-inspiring' by one Dame J Dench. Hiking, biking and moutain biking routes are all around Berkhamsted, including at the National Trust's Ashridge Estate just outside town, a place of chalklands, meadows and wildlife-laden woodland: come here to spot deer, woodpeckers, tawny owls, and bats swooping overhead on a summer's eve. By car, kids should like a day at the Natural History Museum at Tring (15 minutes' drive) and will surely clamour for some time on the Warner Brothers Studio Tour London, within 20 minutes. ZSL Whipsnade Zoo is also 20 minutes from the farm.