Martin and Annie Howard's exquisite Lutyens style home is barely an hour from the airport but its rural seclusion provides rest and recuperation for tired travellers in the most idyllic of settings. You will be welcomed with lime sodas or gins and tonics, and revived with fine food and finer company. Walk in the Aravali Hill, visit Martin's village school, or simply float on your back in the pool listening to the birdsong from the Howard's miraculous garden.
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