Spring has come to Lam Erin’s Cherishville for 2026, and with it the region has evolved into a new setting for visitors to enjoy.
With this iteration of the region we are offered a truly pastoral location; a place of farming, outbuildings, a meandering stream, gently rolling hills crowned by trees and flowers, and a scattering of animals together with little touches of humour for those with a keen eye..
The Landing Point sits to the north-west of the region, in the lee of an aged, bent-backed tree. This tree appears to suggest that strong winds can at times visit themselves across the island, although the upright poise of the other trees across the setting appear to say otherwise, and suggest the curved nature of this tree’s back is perhaps due to some other factor.
Sitting on a stubby headland, the Landing Point looks both east and south over the region, the eastern view encompassing the tall form of what might be taken to be a lighthouse on the far horizon when first seen, but which is in fact a clock tower, its belfry sitting in place of any lamp room. Between these stubby headlands is a sweep of beach which is separated from the clock tower by the mouth of the region’s stream.
Southwards, the landing point overlooks a rutted track leading inland, a small stretch of shingle shoreline and a further trail passing some old vehicles on its way south. This rutted track forms a junction with the one leading inland from the Landing Point whilst also pointing east, where it becomes sandwiched between the beach and a pair of Tuscany-style outhouses, one of which has been turned into a patisserie and the other a residence-come-coffeehouse.
With outside seating, a large rectangular pond that has become the home of water lilies and swans and a separate fountain, the coffeehouse makes for a pleasant place to stop, itself sitting between track and the sharp curve of the stream behind it which leave it and the patisserie effectively sitting on a finger of land. The patisserie offers more limited seating, but is still a pleasant visit and also holds an element of the humour I alluded to earlier.
To the south of the setting and sitting on a hill is a large farmhouse, in the grounds of which chickens squawk and cluck among the flowers – fortunately leaving the vegetable garden at the front of the house alone; a goose watching over her brood as they learn to swim, and a family of birds has taken over the mailbox – the property sitting, appropriately, on Bird Lane. With lavender and fruit trees being cultivated to one side of the house, with the lavender extending to encompass two more sides, the farmhouse is welcoming in a shabby-chic kind of look.
The best way to reach this farmhouse is to follow the track down the west side of the region from the Landing Point. This takes people past the old vehicles, one of which – an old truck – has become something of an apiary, with hives established outside its blocky form, and more hives apparently mounted along either side of its rear chassis.
A second vehicle has been turned into someone of a psychedelic piece of graffiti art as it sits at the side of the track. Beyond this, the track then rises up a slope to pass another outbuilding / shack where horses and sheep graze, to meet the stone built bridge spanning the region’s stream. The track then curls along the slope of the farmhouse hill before passing between the fencing surrounding the farmhouse. As it does so, it passes a signboard explaining the art of trail blazing and referencing the Slovene cartographer and trail blazer, Alojz Knafelc.
High photogenic, calming and rich in colour, sound and with an ideal EEP setting, Cherishville Spring is another excellent design by Lam Erin.
SLurl Details
- Cherishville Spring (Tuscan Hills, rated Moderate)
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