Your home, while you stay here in Forgès , is a small stone built cottage, probably dating from the 18th century, though it might be a bit older. Ian and Jacquie took a year to restore it themselves, from removing the old mortar rendering on the outside of the house, to creating two complete rooms in the attic area, having passed through stages like completely re-plumbing the house, renewing the electric installation and tiling all the showers and bathrooms.
The "sejour", in which our guests take breakfast, is at their disposal at other times of the day. The enormous fireplace, into which the kitchen area is built, is known as a "Cantou" in the area, and is very much a feature of Corrèze houses.
This room, like all the rooms in the house, has electric thermostatic heating, and guests are more than welcome to use it on chilly spring or autumn (fall) mornings.
Your breakfast is included in the price of your room, of course. It consists of freshly squeezed fruit juice, coffee/tea or other beverages, cereals, yoghurt, croissants and crusty french bread. Butter is usually farm made, all our jams (and proper English marmalade) are home made, and honey (entirely natural and untreated) comes from local beekeepers.
This is the newly redecorated ground floor bedroom, which opens off the breakfast room and like the other bedrooms. has a fitted wall-to-wall carpet. It is large enough to take an extra bed (supplement) and we have aimed to make it extremely comfortable with nice firm beds, which you can choose to have as one enormous double bed, or two singles, whichever you prefer. It has private en suite facilities consisting of a bath with a thermostatically controlled shower, washbasin and toilet. Click here to see some more photos..
As in the upstairs shower rooms, there are heated towel rails for that extra touch of luxury and face flannels are provided for the use of our guests, to spare them having to travel with a damp sponge bag. All our rooms are pictured in the prices and conditions section.
Ian and Jacquie moved here permanently over fifteen years ago, and grow a proportion of the produce they use in their meals. The Dordogne valley is renowned for the quality of its fruit, while wonderful produce of all types can be found at local markets.
Ian was a self employed chef in London, and the quality of his cooking is known throughout the area. His speciality has always been to produce authentic regional and national cuisines and in the 5 course dinners, served en famille in their own living room, or outside in summer, you may well find yourself being served a Hungarian soup, a French entrée (appetizer) and main course, local cheeses(unpasteurised, of course) and an English dessert.
While they do not offer half board, they will be delighted to share a meal with you (click here for details) on the day you arrive, and possibly on others, depending upon mutual convenience. For people keen to discover good local cooking, there are many excellent hotels and restaurants within 15 minutes gentle drive from Forgès.
This is the front garden in which guests are very welcome to sit out and take their ease. Built in 1997, it is still fairly young, but is already a comfortable place to relax and contemplate the delights of rural France! Ian and Jacquie used local materials to build the garden, with the result that it looks very much part of the countryside.
