GAUGUIN

2 bedrooms, sleeps 4 to 6.

Details: Semi detached 1 Double room 1 Twin room Sofa bed Separate living room TV, VCR, DVD, radio/CD player Kitchen: dishwasher, gas cooker, exhaust fan, coffee machine, kettle, fridge, freezer, microwave oven, washing machine. Shared swimming pool 1 WC, Bath/Shower Crib, highchair, baby bath Fireplace

The house
Gauguin is a characteristic French cottage, perched on a hill in the Dordogne Valley, just 10 minutes from the picturesque town Argentat. The house was built in 1940 in a typical French way with many small windows with shutters, a country style kitchen on the ground floor with French doors to the terrace and a separate sitting room with a fireplace upstairs. All the rooms are spacious, comfortable, and tastefully furnished. The large dining table with comfortable chairs will invite everyone to stay put for hours enjoying sumptuous home-cooked meals of many local specialities and wines. The oak wood staircase brings you to the first floor, where a cosy sitting room with a fire place is the right place for a book, a movie or just a good conversation. The bedrooms and bathrooms are on this same floor. Next door to Gauguin is Dali, an identical house, but with an extra triple bed room.

Ground Floor
Kitchen; 40m2 with French doors, large dining table with 6 comfortable chairs, small sitting area, side cabinet, Radio/CD player, many cupboards and shelves.
Back kitchen: storage area, washing machine, ironing table and drying facilities.

1st Floor:
Entrance with front door. Sitting room with a comfortable sofa, a sofa bed, several chairs, fireplace, coffee table, side unit with books and games. TV/VCR and DVD player and proper reading lights. There is a wardrobe, so this room can be used for extra guests. Master Bedroom with double bed, dressing table, mirror, wardrobe, side table, reading lights. Twin Bedroom with wardrobe, dressing table, mirror, side tables and reading lights. Bathroom with shower and wash hand basin. Separate Toilet.

Garden
Gauguin has a lawn and rose bushes. A large umbrella shaped Linden tree provides plenty of shade over the garden table. Steps take you down into the shared garden with the swings, the boules area, badminton net, table tennis and the salt water swimming pool. The pool has been safely fenced off and has loungers, umbrellas and a picnic table on the terrace. If you need to get out of the sun on your terrace, you can find ample shade close to the stream, the Glane that flows along the garden into the river Dordogne just after 100 meters.

Domaine Gleny
Overlooking the ruins of the old monastery of Gleny and only a 10 minutes drive from the beautiful town of Argentat, this group of four typical rural French houses perched against the slopes of the Limousin hills offer everything you need for a peaceful and rewarding holiday. If there is a heart of France, if the expression La France Profonde – deep France – has any meaning, this is where to find it. For simple rural charm, Limousin is hard to beat. It has Forests, lakes, gorges, castles, and volcanic ancestry. There is warmth and old-fashioned courtesy about the people of this region, which makes any visitors welcome. The whole area is well known for its beautiful scenery, excellent food and wine, and some world-famous tourist attractions wild unspoiled countryside deep into the real rural France. Nearby you can also find golf, horse riding, canoeing, and beautiful countryside for walking, cycling and touring. Nevertheless for those who are less energetic there is fishing for which this region is so famous for or take a stroll along the riverside at Argentat in memory of the Gabare boats men of bygone days……The town of Argentat has shops and an array of restaurants and other excellent eating-places, many of which are right on the banks of the river Dordogne. The whole area is well known for its good food and wine; there are many places to go within easy reach. Also worth a mention is the presence of many caves in the area, including the very famous Gouffre de Padirac. This is essentially an enormous series of underground lakes, and they can be accessed through a hole which sinks deep into the earth. This really is a sight to behold, and photography is difficult within the caves and could never capture the scale and beauty of this natural phenomenon. However, they do take a photo of you on the underground boat ride as a souvenir. Not far away is Rocamadour. This town has been built spectacularly up the side of a hill and has been a pilgrimage site of great importance since the middle ages.

Activities
The area has even more to offer. The roads are quiet and perfect for cycling. There are many maps available for hiking and VTT, mountain biking. Also horse riding, climbing, golf and delta-wing flying can be done in this area. The birds and wild life is the woods attract many hiker and spotter. And chanterelles and other mushrooms can be picked in autumn.

Location
Gleny is part of the community Servières-le-Chateau and is about 8 km north east of Argentat on the Dordogne.