You’re glad you’re not allergic to flowers. Everything is flowery here in Carmel, or as it is officially known, Carmel-by-the-Sea, the most famous hyphenated name since Farrah Fawcett-Majors.

You wake up in the canopy-draped four poster bed of your English country cottage, on the floral print sheets and Laura Ashley duvet, and have breakfast on the sunny terrace swallowed by perennials.