The house is the home of Anna and Abel and their children Inés and Louis and golden retrievers, Roxane and Bollinger and has all the luxuries of a country house hotel combined with a friendly family atmosphere. Individually designed double rooms and suites with private bathrooms, thoughtfully decorated with sumptuous fabrics and an attention to detail. Children very welcome. Wine tours by arrangement. Four course dinner on request. Vegetarian menus available. Brive 20 minutes, Cahors 50 minutes.

We have two very large chambres d'hotes bed and breakfast rooms and one small double room in the manoir and two bedrooms in the dovecote, situated across the courtyard, which can be taken together by couples, family or friends, all with en suite bathrooms. Hairdryers are provided. Sumptuous breakfast with fresh coffee or a selection of teas. Glorious gardens and private fishing lake. Close to the Normandy D-Day Landing Beaches and Battlefields. Tours arranged. Bayeux 20 minutes, Caen 40 minutes.

This beautifully restored manoir, situated near Paimpol in Brittany, was built between the 15th and 17th centuries. The landscape here is always changing and the Gulf Stream makes the climate mild enough for mimosas to flourish. The three rooms have private bathrooms and pre-dinner drinks are served around the old fireplace in the Breton room. Near beaches and good restaurants.

This small 15th century château stands in a leafy setting in a park with swimming pool. The residence offers two luxurious and superbly decorated suites with fine Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture. Close by is Château de Bouges which is a replica of the Petit Trianon at Versailles and a Leather and Parchment Museum at Levroux. There is a good restaurant 3 kms away and several others within reach. Dinner is available on request. Awarded 4 epis for comfort and charm.

La Pomme is an equestrian estate with paddocks and stables in beautifully kept grounds, where we have three bed and breakfast rooms, a library and a sitting room with television and a generous breakfast to set you up for the day. The house is very comfortable, very much a family home and a welcoming base from which to enjoy this area or as an en-route stop. Those who can bring their own horses are welcome.

The house is surrounded by beautifully kept gardens, vines, woodland and fields and has a large swimming pool and a lake stocked with fish. We have five double bed and breakfast rooms with private bathrooms in the chateau and three in a separate cottage on the estate. Comfort and an attention to detail are our main concern. Guest salons and games room. Hairdryers provided. Dinner available on request. Ideal as a base for couples, families or friends travelling together. Open all year.

Château de Champallement, once owned by the family of Madame de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV, is in the little village of Champallement in the heart of the Nièvre area of Burgundy and has stunning views across to the Morvan Hills. Nevers, close to the Formula 1 racing circuit at Magny-Cours, is 45 kms. We have six bed and breakfast rooms, all furnished with period family furniture and two guest salons.

The château has been in our family for more than three hundred years. We are also passionate gardeners and have enlarged the park and created a series of lovely gardens. We have here, two guest bedrooms with bathrooms and salons with beautiful painted ceilings, and we hope to be able to welcome you into our home to enjoy the gardens and the area, the banks of the River Loire and the vineyards. Angers 17 km, Tours 1 hour.

Peacefully set in beautiful park and gardens, the manoir has been in the same family since it was built in 1802. Located between Normandie, Picardie and the Ile de France, an hour and a half from Paris in a valley that is surrounded by cereal fields and farmland peppered with villages, cottages and farms. The house is near excellent golf courses and a half hour drive from beaches. Very comfortable rooms and family suits with private bathrooms. Dinner available on request.

Les Farcies lies in the heart of the Pécharmant vineyards 2 kms north of Bergerac, a fine 18th century château set in eight hectares of lovely park and gardens. Each of the bedrooms have been decorated and furnished in keeping with the style and period of the château and have private bathrooms and satellite television. We hope that you will enjoy this little corner of paradise and enjoy too, discovering the pleasures of our wines and our region.

Set in seventeen hectares of park and gardens with a lake, near Roanne, 80 kms from Lyon. This romantic château was built at the end of the 17th century during the reign of Louis XIV and is situated on the banks of the River Loire. The five rooms, including a suite, are all beautifully furnished and have private bathrooms. Private lake stocked with fish. Dinner is available on request. Close to one of the best restaurants in France.

A lovely family home, surrounded by terraces and gardens with ornamental ponds, close the village of Port d'Envaux on the Charente river near Saintes. The bedrooms are spacious, light and comfortably furnished with simplicity and elegance, all with bathrooms. Ideal as a base from which to enjoy all that the Charente has to offer, or as a restful break enroute to and from the North to Southern France and Spain. Cognac and Royan, 30 minutes.

An avenue of century old lime trees leads to the château and has splendid views over a countryside that could only be Normandy. Argouges is set in a lovely park and gardens that have evolved over the years to give a peaceful of continuity to a family home. We have five en-suite bedrooms, salons and a billiard room to make your visit comfortable. A short drive from Omaha Beach and an international golf course, 10 minutes from Bayeux.