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Ideal for couples (or 2 friends) and year round breaks. "La Vieille Grange" is a quality conversion of an old wine producing barn, with stunning year round garden room / terrace overlooking 11mx5m pool (open May-Sept), an acre of garden & fabulous views.
Deep in the countryside surrounded by vineyards & sunflowers, but within 10mins of the quiet ports of the Gironde Estuary and 30 mins of a nice beach.
The gite has been primarily designed to provide spacious accommodation for 2 people. However, it can easily accommodate up to 4 people if you want to bring some friends with you !
Newly renovated in 2002, the gite consists of :
On ground floor :
* Kitchen/dining room : modern and fully equipped incl full sized oven & ceramic hob, breakfast bar, dishwasher, washing machine, fridge/freezer, microwave, dining table/chairs and direct dial telephone/answering machine (enabling internet access if you bring a laptop. Fax facilities also available).
* Living room : with Godin log burner, TV/video with English (BBC, ITV, Film4 etc) & French channels, DVD player, CD/radio/cassette player & new sofa.
* Bathroom : bath with wall mounted shower attachment.
* Separate WC.
* Entrance hall, with spiral staircase up to :
On 1st floor, in the converted grenier/loft, 2 large bedrooms (each approx 6mx3m / 18ftx9ft into the eaves - although with some low beams) :
* Main double bedroom for 2 people, incl. sitting area with sofa ... and French windows with views across countryside towards the estuary (and the sunsets !)
* Mezzanine double bedroom for additional 2 people, leading to main bedroom
and outside :
* An enormous (6x4 metre) all weather & all year round garden room/terrace (with stylish infra-red gas radiator when needed) with triple sliding patio doors, opening onto pool area and stunning views across garden and valley beyond
So if it's a bit drizzly you can still relax and enjoy a good book (or an even better bottle of wine !) whilst enjoying the "being in the garden" feeling and gazing at the views across garden and valley to the village beyond !
And when it stops drizzling and warms up - just open up as much or as little of the patio doors as you want - opening up as much as 2/3rds of the room to the garden.
With a choice of furniture : easy chairs; wood steamer-style chairs or deckchairs. Plus dining table & chairs, coffee table and side tables.
* Plenty of choice of garden furniture (wood or PVC sun-loungers, chairs, tables & parasols), plus BBQ, and 2 bikes
* Use of 11m x 5m swimming pool - May to September incl. and as far into October as the weather permits, as it's unheated. The pool is approx 1m in the shallow end and approx 2m at the deep end *
* Use of garden - approx 1 acre - incl boules pit and picnic area with 2nd BBQ
* With pool and garden shared with owners and from time to time their guests - yours is the only gite !
and the ever popular "finishing touches" :
* With your confirmation letter, you'll get our colour information booklet - with everything from our favourite places to eat and drink, to the all important opening times of local supermarkets - and of course maps and directions for getting to us !
and waiting for you when you arrive :
* Fresh flowers to gladden the eye
* Our complimentary "Post Travelling Recovery Kit" otherwise known as our "Welcome Pack", including a bottle of wine (for you to celebrate the start of your holiday !) and provisions for an evening snack and morning breakfast - so you don't need to go to a supermarket after travelling ! (Pack includes : chilled bottle of champagne, olives, bread, croissants, milk, cheese, orange juice, tea, coffee, sugar, margarine, pasta & pesto sauce)
* An abundance of up to date tourist maps, guides and leaflets - carefully organised to make it easy to find just what you want (yes, Chris IS that sad !)
* Availability of an extensive DVD & video library (to accompany that late night bottle of wine perhaps ?)
* The gite Information Folder with details of everything from the latest weather forecast, times of local markets, list of DVDs/videos available to borrow and information about how to use all the gite's facilities - from the dishwasher to the underwater swimming pool floodlights !
And not forgetting (in the words of previous guests) :"our wonderful hosts ... thoughtful and tactful sharing of hospitality"
Whilst the gite is attached to Chris and Martin's house, it is completely self contained and the terrace is divided to provide privacy.
The gite is well equipped with heating for the cooler months, with a new Godin log burner in the living room and new wall mounted electric radiators and convector heaters in all other rooms - including modern "chaleur douce" radiators for gentle and controllable background warmth
We're ashamed to say that some of the internal doors, even on the ground floor, are too narrow for wheelchairs to get through. Otherwise, the ground floor facilities are quite accessible for people with mobility difficulties.
* We have installed a pool alarm that conforms with the new French legislation regarding pool safety (AFNOR standard NF P 30-307) - but all guests are given a magnetic key to disable the alarm whenever they wish to use the pool !! |
