![]() It has quality meat and maybe the whitest eggs I’ve ever seen. Order online or through Natoora’s app and have it delivered to you in London the morning you leave or directly to the house by DPD, a courier service in London.įor chicken, eggs, bacon, butter, and chicken stock, there’s a wonderful butcher next to Natoora in London, recommended to me by the woman who runs Natoora. It’s the best place to get shopping done when you can’t go to the small farmers’ markets. It has all of the beautiful northern Italian radicchio. It works with tons of small farmers throughout France, Italy, and England. We had a lot of friends fly in from Berlin.īuy groceries two to five days in advance ![]() But if you’re flying directly in for the weekend, London Standsted Airport is an international airport that’s only 45 minutes from the house. I was visiting London for a rather long time because my partner is a film editor, so I had been in England for a couple weeks. ![]() It worked out to be very affordable with all of us splitting it. I put it on my credit card - thank God for that broken American financial system. You have to pay for the entire thing up front. We were lucky enough to find this in Cavendish Hall. There were not so many places large enough to host 12 friends. We were looking close to Easter and without tons of lead time. ![]() One is the Landmark Trust and the other is the National Trust. There are two especially wonderful sites on which to find great houses. The only structure for each day is the meals.” Here, Singer shares a long weekend’s worth of meals, a grocery list worthy of food royalty, and the dos and don’ts for throwing an epic dance party in a house of equally epic proportions. You can have everyone together but still do your own thing. “What’s so great about a big group in a house like this is there are grand sitting rooms where someone is reading a book or telling a story in front of the fire. Once the location was secured, the only planning left was the menu. on British artist Richard Hamilton, shuttling back and forth from the two cities through Suffolk for research. “You can’t believe how many greens there are,” says Singer, who used to live between Cambridge and London while earning her master’s in art history and Ph.D. They set their sites on Suffolk county for its proximity to London and its singular landscapes. to secure a long-term visa, and then there was a pesky global pandemic.” With a few years to scheme with her friends about how to get back together, in 2022 they finally found an event (a good friend’s birthday) and a large enough house to gather beneath one roof at the same time. “I never thought I’d leave England,” says the Los Angeles–based writer, editor, and co-founder of the home design brand Permanent Collection. In this recurring series, we find those people who’ve done all the work for you and have them walk us through a particularly wonderful, especially well-thought-out vacation they took that you can actually steal.įanny Singer hadn’t been back to England - her onetime on-and-off home of ten years - since 2019. Photo-Illustration: The Strategist Photos: Fanny SingerĮveryone knows that person who spends weeks sniffing around travel blogs, going deep into Tripadvisor rabbit holes, collecting Google docs from friends of friends, and creating A Beautiful Mind– style spreadsheets to come up with the best vacations and itineraries possible.
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