The Newt is Britain’s most ambitious hotel opening in decades — and one of the most eagerly anticipated. South African media tycoon Koos Bekker and his former magazine editor wife Karen Roos bought Hadspen House in Somerset in 2013. It was to be their English country seat, but now — some £50 million later — it’s a 23-room hotel in 800 lush, rolling acres. 'The Newt is Britain’s most ambitious hotel opening in decades', writes The InspectorWhich is precisely the goal. Next morning I spot a young man and woman returning from the kitchen garden, trugs laden with sprigs of this and that.

Source: Daily Mail October 12, 2019 13:07 UTC