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Having unpacked bags, unloaded all the bikes, bought up what feels like half of the local InterMarche, we can finally relax and enjoy our surroundings.<\/p>\n

The main room of the Farm Guest House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The main part of the Farm House that makes up our gite consists of a lovely, atmospheric, big room with a large, circular dining table and a couple of sofas. \u00a0The front door leads out from here into a private garden area<\/p>\n
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The Farm Guest House’s private dining garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
with a dining table and chairs. \u00a0This in turn leads onto a large grassed area looking across to Usseau under the gaze of the chateau above. \u00a0The kitchen has a table and everything you need to cook, eat and drink! \u00a0Upstairs are two very large bedrooms and a third smaller twin – plenty of room for the six of us. \u00a0There are also three bathrooms.<\/p>\n
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The Tribe playing outside the Farm Guest House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Just outside the back door of the kitchen is what must have been an old bakery with a large stone oven – perfect for cooking pizzas, if you’re feeding a small army. \u00a0There is an old wooden door that leads through the stone wall linking the chateau to the farm house building. \u00a0A pathway leads up through a myriad of plants and flowers to an upper garden with another dining area under a gazebo and a further eating area under an old walnut tree. \u00a0Just above the stone wall the French countryside stretches away. \u00a0Behind honeysuckle covered trellis lies a bountiful, perfectly laid out kitchen garden.<\/p>\n
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The Littlest running through the perfectly ordered vegetable garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
This is where Marie-Andree gathers the produce for her candlelit dinners in the chateau. \u00a0Jean-Marie gives the Tribe handfuls of baby plum tomatoes and succulent ripe beef tomatoes as well as delicious plums from the old fruit trees in the orchard.<\/p>\n
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The orchard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
In the evenings, I sometimes wander in the quiet of the garden and pick herbs to add to our dinner – it is quite beautiful and I appreciate the calm.<\/p>\n
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The fountain at the centre of the Medieval herb garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Jean-Marie and Marie-Andree have also recreated an old Medieval herb garden. \u00a0At its centre is a fountain and it then works out in a geometric pattern, surrounded by high hedges. \u00a0Aromatic and medicinal herbs can be found here and the occasional plant once used in witchcraft – highly toxic! \u00a0The sound of the fountain can be heard from the dining areas at the back of the Farm House and just adds to the overall feeling of tranquility – now that’s pretty impressive when you have four boisterous members of the Tribe playing around!<\/p>\n
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