La Vieille Distillerie
Bed & Breakfast, South Charente, France
Special
interest holidays
These include cookery, visits to a local Cognac distillery for Cognac and wine-tasting, painting with artist's tuition, courses in mosaic work, golf, fishing, horse-riding and bird-watching. Visits to Chateaux and gardens can also be arranged. For those wishing to improve their French tuition can be provided.
Walking holidays
This is a great area for walking. We can arrange for you to follow the Frankton Trail, the escape route followed by Lt. Col. Blondie Hasler and Marine Bill Sparks, the only two Cockellshell Heroes to return from the raid on Bordeaux Harbour during World War II. They walked from Blaye on the Gironde to Ruffec in the north Charente just over 100 miles through occupied France. You can make part of the same walk, which passes about five kilometres from our village. Many other local walks are available. Full support can be provided to your next stop-over.