Proprietors: Roger & Jackie
Thomas
e-mail: enquiries@bladanel.maison
See BOOKINGS for details of dates, prices, and availability
An idyllic holiday cottage built as a farmhouse in the mid-19th century, Bladanel is set on a hill overlooking the beautiful Courbiac valley and with panoramic views of the 13th century Bastide town of Tournon situated high on an outcrop of rock. Tournon is 2 km away with shops, bank, pharmacy, and good restaurants.
See: https://www.francethisway.com/places/tournon-d-agenais.php
Bladanel itself is one of half a dozen houses in a small
hamlet. The others are farms (with delightful French inhabitants) and a
couple of holiday homes owned by British or Dutch families. Bladanel is managed
by British couple who live in a nearby village. Bladanel provides ideal holiday accommodation
with its garden and private 10 x 5 metre swimming pool with a pool heater and heat-retaining
cover. To the south side of the house is a tiled awning providing
relief from the heat of the sun. From the hallway, there is a
small well-equipped Kitchen with all the usual facilities including
a washing machine, microwave, and dishwasher.
There is a large sitting/dining room with exposed beams and a wood-burning stove
in an open fireplace. Double doors lead out on to a paved terrace with
the pool below. The bedroom on the ground floor has three single
beds, and there is a shower room with shower, basin, and WC. The
upstairs bedroom has a king-sized bed and en-suite bathroom with
bath, basin and WC. Garden furniture and barbecue are provided,
also duvets and pillows. There is a telephone, a radio/tape/CD player, a VCR and also a combined TV/DVD
with "Freeview" UK TV/Radio programmes. There is a
wireless broadband facility.
We ask guests please not to smoke inside the house.
The views from the terrace across the Corbiac valley.
The ground-floor bathroom, kitchen and bedroom with olive tree outside the bedroom window.
"Humming bird" moth and Swallow Tail butterfly on lavender patch
View from the Courbiac road across sunflower fields to Bladanel; pyramid orchids in the garden and a misty autumn morning in the Courbiac valley