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We are now taking bookings for the 2011 Summer Holiday Season in our Dordogne Gites.
Don’t miss out on your preferred weeks, book up now to guarantee your holiday and if you confirm your booking before 1st January 2011 you pay 2010 prices – avoiding any price increases!
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Rent a French Gite for 2011
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Les Jardins de Marqueyssac
2 Posts in 2 days… why you might ask??? Well, I’m shocked to see that Dordogne-gites.net has slipped off the Google radar. If I don’t blog regularly the major search engines including Google will start to think this website is ‘no longer live’ which is obviously not the case… Therefore I must try to [...]
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The ‘joys’ of running gites in France
The good times out weigh the bad… honest!
This is our 5th season of running our gites and we are proud to say our best year yet. The availability calenders for all 3 gites are showing the much sought after ‘booked’ message for the main school holiday weeks with many ’shoulder weeks’ also booked.
It isn’t all [...]
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Gites offering flexible arrival & departure dates
Mid-Week arrival and departures to suit our guests.
Are you looking to book a gite during the months of April, May, June or September? Perhaps you can’t get flights or ferries on a Saturday or would prefer a short stay of just 3-6 nights – well, hopefully we can help!
Where possible we will try to [...]
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Bordeaux Marche Noel 2009
Christmas Markets in the Dordogne, SW France
European Christmas markets are world famous and France boasts some of the best inlcuding our favourite in the Beautiful city of Bordeaux – just one and half hours drive from our lovely holiday cottages – La Treille Gites.
The Bordeaux Christmas Market or ‘Marche Noel’ is held every year and [...]
Bourdeilles winter walk
Promenade around a beautiful village
It might be early winter here in the Dordogne but that doesn’t mean we have to hibernate. The local towns and villages are just as pretty as we may remember in the summer but they take on a different hue and are just as pleasant to visit in these cooler seasons.
Just [...]
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A re-newed passion for the Dordogne
Well, here we are it’s the 1st of November already… where did the summer go?
We finally got back from our short break in Spain and although we had a lovely time staying with Jeff’s brother and visiting lots of amazing places, to be honest we were quite pleased to get back to our ‘home’ here [...]
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Autumn around La Treille Gites, Dordogne
It’s a busy old time around La Treille at the moment so I”ve done 2 posts in 1 here…
1 – Rambling around La Treille Gites in the glorious September sunshine -
It’s been an absolutely perfect summer and even now during late September the sun is out giving us temperatures in the mid twenties. It may [...]
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Circuit des Remparts, Angoulême
Ideal ‘long-weekend’ event for classic car enthusiasts in SW France!
If you are into street car racing or classic cars you would have loved today’s event… the streets of the ancient city of Angoulême were closed off to normal traffic today to allow hundreds of classic cars owners the chance to rev their engines, don their [...]
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Vide Grenier at Tocane St Apre
Our first and last Vide Grenier (Car Boot Sale)
We’ve been living here at La Treille in the Dordogne for over 5 years now and still have many ‘un-packed’ boxes of ornaments and ‘who knows what” sitting in our barn. I’ve been threatening to do a ‘Vide Grenier’ now for about 2 years and clear out [...]
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