Our home Les Marronniers, is situated in a small village called La Bruguiere. It is a charming place to walk in and around just enjoying the views and practicing your French with the locals playing Petanque in the shaded square outside the house. This is a Maison de Maitre (Master's house), built on three levels around 1812 with an enclosed forecourt, shaded by chestnut trees. On the other side of the house is a good size heated swimming pool set in a lawn surrounded by flowering shrubs and plants. Ample garden furniture provides poolside seating under the old fig tree.

There are four double rooms, each of which is decorated differently in French country style. All have tea and coffee making facilities; TV; video, CD and radio and private bath or shower and wc. One room has a satellite TV and we have a video library full of English language movies. Les Marronniers has been our home since 1989, and after ten years of restoring it, we decided to open it up to a small number of paying guests. We thought about it a lot. We were wondering how we would feel with strangers in our home. Then we realized that Les Marronniers has always been full of visitors. The difference was that they were family and friends. So, we decided to think of our guests as friends coming to spend some time with us. This has worked very well, both for us and for our guests. More importantly, many of our guests have become our friends. In fact, our website (which we hope you enjoy) was created by a guest who loved his visit with us. The real sign of happy visitors is that they come back - - and they do!