Le Jardin

Sleeps 6 persons

Choose any day ARRIVAL/DEPARTURE

(except July / August = Saturday)

3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms*

* second ground floor bathroom for 2012

Le Jardin is a pretty Perigordian cottage set within it’s own large private garden, laid to lawn with mature trees. There is a private pool (7.5m x 4.5m), poolside terrace and outside furniture, table, chairs and sun loungers, plus barbecue. Totally peaceful, situated at the end of a lane the gite is part of an ensemble of three detached properties located well apart (two gites and the owner’s house). There is outside lighting and ample private parking, with designated parking for the cottage.

The entrance to the cottage from the parking is through a gate leading to the cottage and pool. Once inside you are in a private walled and secluded space including garden and pool.

French doors from the poolside terrace lead into the kitchen on the right and the dining room on the left. The fitted kitchen has fridge, mini oven, gas hob and extractor, pots and pans, coffee machine, microwave. The kitchen leads through to the dining room and on to the lounge (TV and wired Internet access). Off the kitchen to the rear of the cottage is the shower room and wc.

The ground floor double bedroom is off the lounge to the rear of the cottage.

A second ground floor shower room and wc is planned for 2012, to the rear of the cottage next to the ground floor bedroom.

Stairs wind up from the dining room to the two attic bedrooms, one double and one twin (a child gate protects the stairs at first floor level). Each bedroom has a window to the side of the cottage.

The Location.

When you get off the beaten track you might simply drive straight through and never notice the interesting little things that almost every town or village has to surprise the visitor. Saint Germain du Salembre the local village is no exception.

The Biscotterie La Chantracoise is one of the last remaining bakeries producing locally made biscottes in France. And what are biscottes, I hear you asking? At the end of the 18th century bakers looking for a way to preserve bread for longer came up with the biscotte, essentially toasted bread slices. All over france they are eaten for breakfast with butter and jam dipped in your large bowl of coffee. This is the French version of breakfast toast.

The Biscotterie is open all year from Monday to Friday 8am to midday and 1.30 to 5.30pm.

Biscotterie La Chantéracoise
Le Maine
St Germain du Salembre
Tel: 05 53 80 51 17

THINGS TO DO.

The nearby town of Neuvic is famous for it’s chateau and gardens and a train hold up by the Free French resistance towards the end of the second world war.

The town itself is lovely with church and market place and local shopping.

Just outside the town are the preserved medieval straw and mud houses that used to be the homes of the country folk.

On the river Isle from the camping it is possible to hire an electric boat for a gentle cruise along the river.

There is also a local equestrian centre for rides out into the Forest of La Double.

Map.