Originally a farmhouse and barn, it has been painstakingly restored. The barn is now the high ceilinged, oak-beamed living room with a minstrel’s gallery leading to the bedrooms. There is a large kitchen and the number of other rooms provide a variety of accommodation for 6 people but is also just as nice for 2. Each room has its own individuality with doors and french windows giving access to the outside. There are poplars, fruit trees, and bamboo. A hedge with a wooden door encloses a “breakfast” garden outside the kitchen. An old wisteria grows along the veranda, providing shade for sitting or eating outside. A weeping willow makes a focal point beside the covered “sunset” patio. There is a tin bath and outside shower for cooling off when it’s hot. There is also a barbecue, garden furniture and a hammock.
In the garden there is plenty of nature, this is rural France! There are birds, butterflies, lizards sunning themselves, tiny green tree frogs, small preying mantis and the occasional toad. Frogs can sometimes be heard against a background of cicadas and harmless bats can flicker swiftly through the garden on a summer’s evening. Wildflowers include orchids, ladysmock, vetches, violets down by the small river, poppies, cow parsley and buttercups in the fields. The house is near Duras in Lot-et-Garonne and the nearest small airport is Bergerac (half an hours drive) with flights from Stansted, East Midlands, Bristol & Liverpool (Ryanair); Gatwick, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Southampton and Exeter, (Flybe). Flights to BORDEAUX (one and a half hours drive) are available from Birmingham and Manchester (Bmibaby); Gatwick (British Airways); Bristol and Luton (Easyjet) Southampton (Flybe).
Travelling here for a break is now really easy! The owners have an English agent who lives locally and will help with any problems when the owners are not available.
