We wanted to thank you for your hospitality and your assistance in getting us started on our vacation!

We have arrived back in Arizona and settled in to our "normal" life. We wanted to thank you for your hospitality and your assistance in getting us started on our vacation. Your Harvest Suite apartment in the carriage house is lovely. The views and quiet location were a perfect start to our month in France.

We are still sorting though the million photos so we will send some later. The town that we fell in love with on our first outing was Cinq-Mars. We got lost and decided to drive though when we were turning around. It captured our attention, and forced us to slow down and take in the experience. We took your advice and slowed down significantly after the first week.

Curt & Gaye K.

Arizona, USA

The Old Stone House was a great place to stay!

We returned to Canada from France on June 18 jet lagged. Our 10 week time in France was all we had hoped, and our time in Menerbes was most memorable. The Old Stone House was a great place to stay. Your English neighbor across the street was very kind and helpful!

Charles R.

Kelowna, British Columbia

Canada

The Edouard Jacques Studio met all of our needs perfectly!

We returned last evening after spending a wonderful five weeks in France, four of them in the Edouard Jacques Studio. The studio met all of our needs perfectly. It was quiet, convenient, well kept, and a pleasant place to spend time.

A couple of thoughts for your concierge book:

CDG – 3, rue Edouard Jacques: We can recommend the shuttle from Paris Airport Service (parisairportservice.net) or 01 -55 -98 -10 -80. It was 32 euros for both of us, and is door to door. Because others may be in the six passenger van, it may take a few minutes longer than a taxi, but it is much less expensive. We have used it successfully three times.

We, of course, found our favorite park. It's the small park on rue Loesserand across from the bus #58 bus stop – no more than 100 meters from the studio. It's quiet, close, and private; it seems to get little use. Its name is Le Jardin de Moulin du Trois Comets.

Regards,

Lynn B.

Boston, MA

USA

Thank you both for a wonderful week at the Chateau des Sablons!

After 92 degree heat in Provence (in May) we were enfolded in the cool, gentle, green arms of spring when we arrived (a day early) at Chateau des Sablons. Our hosts were welcoming, understanding, and invited us to collapse in our apartment a day early. And what a lovely apartment it was! The living area was flooded with light from two tall windows complete withworking shutters. The ceilings were high, and the wood floors were old. But pehaps not as old as the wonderful circular stairs leading up to our door. The staircase center pillar was carved from a large treetrunk after the stairs were installed many years ago. Much more recently the walls of the apartment were skillfully covered with a lovely fabric that softened the sounds and surfaces of the rooms. The kitchen of the apartment was new with all the expected and hoped for appliances – even a small freezer in the refrigerator. A vase of mauve peonies and a bottle of local wine were awaiting us after our first day. The king-sized bed was firm, and the bath had a blissful soaking tub. We would throw the window shutters open in the morning to radiant sunshine and the birdsong of a warbler, and the cooing of doves.

Besides all of this, the garden was postcard perfect with a gleaming swimming pool and clusters of tables and chairs set around the park-like grounds. The chateau itself is a perfect example of the exquisite, small country manors of French history. Not a huge castle, but a real and beautiful home. The local village, a 10 minute walk away, would have taken many weeks to get to know, but we were also in the center of the great chateau-wine-mushroom-troglodyte-Tufa cave-middle age village-Loire River-fabulous restaurants country. We could only scratch the surface and must return to continue our studies.

I would also like to mention how helpful, knowledgeable, and gracious our hosts were!

Thank you both so much.

Anita & Mike M.

Oregon, USA