Each sleeps just two people: choose from the sleek Le Bébé Cottage, with its baroque Paris feel (there's even a bright-red birdcage reborn as a swivel chair); Aunt Zoe's Place, decorated like a 1940s lakeside cabin, with restored farm sinks and stained-glass windows; and Papa Hemmingway Cottage, designed like a wilderness lodge.
He said when they were in the Bahamas, they all stayed in the same cabin.
In a high-brow equivalent of cash in the attic, the 92-year-old says he is selling the medal because it is just taking up space in his log cabin.
A skipper, if required, costs £95 per day (they need their own cabin and the charterer is responsible for their food).
She even has a little art cabin that she built in the middle of the main house.
The way the ceiling is moulded and the way the interior is softly lit with LED spotlights almost suggest a plane cabin rather than a bus.
'Brittany Ferries (0871 244 1400; brittanyferries.co.uk) offers 14-night villa breaks on the northern coast of Spain from £1,740 providing easy access to both the countryside and the coast, including return crossings from Plymouth to Santander for two adults, one car and a two-year-old child with a four-berth cabin suite each way.
In last year's production of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, she built a film studio in miniature: a sound stage, a cinema screen, a booth in which a foley artist created live sound effects, and a cabin in which an actor voiced the main character's fragmented thoughts.
Mylène Gilles has beautifully renovated a stone Normandy farmhouse, with four rooms, and in the garden is what she calls her "gypsy caravan", but is more like a roomy fisherman's cabin.
South of Bariloche are a string of pleasant towns, including El Bolsón – a former hippy hangout, and still popular with Argentinian campers – and Cholila, where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid bought a ranch (you can visit Cassidy's log cabin there).
But then there is the cabin baggage challenge.
