La Vallée du Soleil

29/01/2026

New shady seating area for the coming season...

03/02/2023

06/04/2022

BOOK DIRECT...
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31/07/2021

Welcome basket for our latest guests arriving today. Local wine from Les Caves Jules Gautret, local goats cheese from the nearby Fromagerie de Mortafond, little heart soaps from Coeur de Savon. Fresh milk, butter and yoghurt from our local dairy farm who supply Laiterie de Pamplie. A baguette from our favourite boulangerie B-Sweet and of course some free range eggs from our chooks and fresh veggies from the garden.

29/05/2021

🇬🇧 Gite garden looking lovely for our guests this weekend.

🇨🇵 Le jardin du gîte est très beau pour nos clients ce week-end.

08/05/2021

The new herb bed in the gite is coming along nicely; there's even a few strawberries 🍓 ready for our latest guests who are arriving today.

31/12/2020

Somewhere to visit nearby...

POTERIE ARTISANALE À TUSSON
On the edge of the square in Tusson is a pottery where you can watch, through the window at the back of the shop the art being created at the potters wheel.

It's lovely to see how they produce the beautiful bowls and plates that you may have just discovered, like me, in Gateaux because they serve all their glorious cakes on the pretty plates and their teas and coffees come in the lovely cups with their unusual saucers.

Now you may not be able to recreate a cake quite like the ones from Gateaux but you can take home a beautiful piece of pottery to enjoy anyway.

29/12/2020

Somewhere to visit locally...

Gâteaux is the most fantastic little coffee shop/tea room and it's not far from us in Tusson. They have some of the best cakes I have ever come across, with the best stocked cake selection and when I say that on any given day there is always something for everyone I am seriously not joking. It is always a challenge to choose!

Le magasin est ouvert exclusivement pour la vente à emporter de 9h à 13h.

17/09/2020

Château de Dampierre sur Boutonne.
We took a picnic because you can sit in the château gardens to eat. It was so tranquil, just the river flowing past , the trees rustling in the breeze and birds singing. A stroll around the gardens, a wander through the maze and searching out all the wonderful sculpture. What a lovely place to have nearby!

16/08/2020

Welcome gifts for our guests...
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We love to support local businesses so everything we give our guests is local to this area. The closest is the veg from our garden and eggs from our hens and the furthest is the wine just a few kilometres away.
There's so much lovely produce to try in this area!