AQUITAINE - renowned for its wine, food and sunshine,
long Atlantic beaches and bastide market towns.

The Priory at St Quentin de Baron is set on a hill with a panoramic view overlooking a valley with rolling green fields and woods. Spend your holiday in the countryside where you can swim in the pool and have your breakfast on the lawn in the sun while you decide how to spend the rest of your day.

Go to St Emilion and try the wine. Visit a busy bastide (walled) town on a market day and bring home delicious fresh country produce for lunch. Have a day on a sandy Atlantic beach, play tennis or golf. Go riding, bicycling or walking. Take a trip to the Dordogne, Périgueux, Bergerac, feast on truffles, confit de canard ...........

 

 

Be independent and stay in “your own” house where you can really experience living French. See “guest house".

Alternatively be well looked after by your hostess, your English chatelaine, see "guest rooms" have breakfast under the pine trees, and plan your day to a vinyard, lie in a hammock and let the fan-tail pigeons coo you into a blissful siesta, for evening meals a professional chef is available on request, or there is a wide choice of restaurants from romantic bistros to gourmet dining.

Rent a bicycle and chose from a range of scenic itineraries -Picnics provided on request. Visit the prehistoric caves at Lascaux or Rouffignac. Enjoy a days golf at Château Vigiers.

Distances

  • Airport (35 mins)
  • Bordeaux shopping, architecture and galleries (25 mins)
  • St Emilion, wine and history (10 mins)
  • Golf at Chateau Vigiers (40 mins)
  • The coast and dunes 1 hour
  • Tennis courts at Moulon (5 mins)