Your B&B Hosts:
Your Bed and Breakfast Farmstay hosts at Benbellen Country Retreat are
Sherry Stumm and Peter Wildblood. The hospitality Sherry and Peter offer is based on "discrete involvement" with opportunities for conversation with two people who are widely read and whose experience through work and travel has a strong international flavour.
Sherry has worked as a journalist,
public relations consultant, publisher, television researcher and radio producer;
she has produced a documentary on the New South Wales prison system and a number
of special interest video programs and written books on healthy
living. Sherry is passionate about her alpacas, geese, guinea fowl and her
gardens.
Peter has wide experience as a senior manager and consultant and has written a
book on leadership, published in 1995, and many articles in professional magazines
on management topics generally. He is now turning his hand to making fine breakfast
marmalades, baking bread and running a small farm.
Sherry and Peter have created a relaxed and friendly atmosphere
in their home to match the serenity and quiet of the home paddock on
which the Benbellen homestead nestles. There is a level of peacefulness approaching
the spiritual when you gaze out from the balcony of the homestead over the large dam
on the farm backed by the remnant rain forest on its northern bank.
Sherry and Peter have traveled widely in Europe, the United States and
in Asia and the Western Pacific and in many ways the ambience they
have created at Benbellen reflects their own experience of the very
best in bed and breakfast accommodation.
They have designed their home so as to optimize both the privacy of
their guests and the opportunity for more communal life on
a busy working farm. This is why two of the three bedroom suites open
off an extensive library and why each has its own large balcony; the third
bedroom opens directly into a downstairs courtyard and a walkway to the
dam itself.
When staying at the fully self contained Penlan Cottage, 10 minutes drive from Benbellen, you are most welcome to visit Peter & Sherry for morning
or afternoon tea, share an evening meal or participate in farm activities.
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Sherry with Alpaca
Peter slicing fresh baked bread
B & B Farmstay Hosts
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