Peaceful eco farm stay in a converted cowshed - 45 min drive from Bordeaux
Región De Langon
- 4 Dormitorios
- 4 Baños
- No se admiten mascotas
- 10 Personas
- 100 m²
- Granja
An old cowshed converted into a two story gîte on a 20 acre micro farm working with biodynamic principles. 45 minutes drive from Bordeaux. Easy access to the Atlantic Ocean (Arcachon/Dune of Pilat), medieval castles and villages, thermal spa, many châteaux in the Bordeaux wine regions, tranquil canals, lakes, scenic Dordogne, and even the Basque country and the Pyrenees. A good base for cycling, fishing, and walking holidays, or for a farm stay to experience tranquil French farming life.
Clavaillon is a small working farm working with biodynamic principles. At the moment, we grow vegetables and fruit, and keep Gloucestershire Old Pigs. We don't use insecticides, herbicides, pesticides, or chemical fertilisers. We tend to compost at the farm and return the good bits to the soil, as we believe it is vital to nurture and improve it, not the plants. We look at the whole farm as an organism and try to achieve harmony, rather than just combating localised acute problems. We encourage predators of pests to thrive, hoping they achieve a good balance between them, and use a wide range of companion plants to deter them, improve the growth, and achieve a better flavour.
We hope you will enjoy the peaceful surroundings in the French countryside. Come feel four distinctive seasons at Clavaillon, in which you see different flowers, birds, and colours of foliage and sky. Or even different smell in the air.
If you feel more active, Clavaillon is in a very good position to go out for walking, running, cycling, canoeing, horse riding, swimming, etc. Also, by car, you can easily reach many scenic areas with natural beauty, as well as tourist attractions including Bordeaux city centre.
Pets are welcome - we have our own cat and dogs, too! If you'd like to bring your pets with you, please just tell us when booking the gîte.
The gîte is self contained and it has all the facilities you may need. Please just let us know, however, if it is missing something.
Please feel free to walk around the 20 acres of land, which includes grass fields, some with farm animals on, a kitchen garden, a pond (we plan to build a natural swimming pond in the near future, too), and deciduous and pine trees.
We live on the other side of the farmhouse which houses the gîte, a storage and a boot room, and our living quarters. We are often working in the fields or kitchen garden. If you have any questions, or just want to have a chat, please find us!
For 12 people maximum, with 5 permanent beds across 4 bedrooms and 4 additional fold up beds. We also have two cots available. Please let us know if you would like us to get the fold up beds or cots ready for you.
Towels and bath linen are provided by us so you don’t have to bring them with you.
We sell seasonal vegetables and fruits to our guests for a reduced rate. Please ask for details.
The check out time is at 11 am. If you would like to leave the gîte later than 10am, please request when you make a reservation.
If you would like to have continental breakfast provided with tea, coffee and juice, we accept additional charge of 10€ per person per serving.
If you would like daily cleaning, we accept additional charge of 30€ per cleaning.
We have a table tennis table, rackets and balls, and a badminton set to play at Clavaillon. Also, the next door village, Saint-Côme has a communal tennis court. You can borrow rackets and balls from us.
Clavaillon’s nearest town is Bazas, famous for its local breed of cattle, the Bazadaise, and a medieval cathedral, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France. The cathedral was the venue for the wedding between the heiress apparent to the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy empire and the heir to a dynasty of Italian winemakers in 2005, which was featured in Forbes Magazines, 10 Most Extravagant Weddings.
Bordeaux city centre is a 45 minute drive from Clavaillon. Though it used to be called ‘the sleeping beauty’, with abandoned warehouses on the riverfront, heavy traffic, and facades of buildings blackened by air pollution, the long running redevelopment programmes has transformed the city into a beautiful and vibrant place where even Parisians would love to move to, as, since July 2017, the new high speed rail line lets you travel between the two cities in 2 hours. Since 2007, half of Bordeaux has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, too.
Clavaillon is situated towards the South East corner of the vast and world famous Bordeaux wine region, including Médoc, Graves, Pomerol, Sauternes, Saint-Émillion. It will be a great day out to visit those regions or even a chateau or two, not only for wine but also for a sumptuous meal, bucolic scenery, and horse riding.
The nearest international airport (Bordeaux Merignac) and TGV station (Bordeaux St Jean) can be reached from Clavaillon in 45 minutes by car. The nearest local station to Clavaillon is in Langon which is 25 minutes drive away. Other major airports around Clavaillon are in Bergerac (90 minutes away by car) and Biarritz and Toulouse (2 hours away each).
There is a private parking space in front of our gîte.
Clavaillon is a small working farm working with biodynamic principles. At the moment, we grow vegetables and fruit, and keep Gloucestershire Old Pigs. We don't use insecticides, herbicides, pesticides, or chemical fertilisers. We tend to compost at the farm and return the good bits to the soil, as we believe it is vital to nurture and improve it, not the plants. We look at the whole farm as an organism and try to achieve harmony, rather than just combating localised acute problems. We encourage predators of pests to thrive, hoping they achieve a good balance between them, and use a wide range of companion plants to deter them, improve the growth, and achieve a better flavour.
We hope you will enjoy the peaceful surroundings in the French countryside. Come feel four distinctive seasons at Clavaillon, in which you see different flowers, birds, and colours of foliage and sky. Or even different smell in the air.
If you feel more active, Clavaillon is in a very good position to go out for walking, running, cycling, canoeing, horse riding, swimming, etc. Also, by car, you can easily reach many scenic areas with natural beauty, as well as tourist attractions including Bordeaux city centre.
Pets are welcome - we have our own cat and dogs, too! If you'd like to bring your pets with you, please just tell us when booking the gîte.
The gîte is self contained and it has all the facilities you may need. Please just let us know, however, if it is missing something.
Please feel free to walk around the 20 acres of land, which includes grass fields, some with farm animals on, a kitchen garden, a pond (we plan to build a natural swimming pond in the near future, too), and deciduous and pine trees.
We live on the other side of the farmhouse which houses the gîte, a storage and a boot room, and our living quarters. We are often working in the fields or kitchen garden. If you have any questions, or just want to have a chat, please find us!
For 12 people maximum, with 5 permanent beds across 4 bedrooms and 4 additional fold up beds. We also have two cots available. Please let us know if you would like us to get the fold up beds or cots ready for you.
Towels and bath linen are provided by us so you don’t have to bring them with you.
We sell seasonal vegetables and fruits to our guests for a reduced rate. Please ask for details.
The check out time is at 11 am. If you would like to leave the gîte later than 10am, please request when you make a reservation.
If you would like to have continental breakfast provided with tea, coffee and juice, we accept additional charge of 10€ per person per serving.
If you would like daily cleaning, we accept additional charge of 30€ per cleaning.
We have a table tennis table, rackets and balls, and a badminton set to play at Clavaillon. Also, the next door village, Saint-Côme has a communal tennis court. You can borrow rackets and balls from us.
Clavaillon’s nearest town is Bazas, famous for its local breed of cattle, the Bazadaise, and a medieval cathedral, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France. The cathedral was the venue for the wedding between the heiress apparent to the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy empire and the heir to a dynasty of Italian winemakers in 2005, which was featured in Forbes Magazines, 10 Most Extravagant Weddings.
Bordeaux city centre is a 45 minute drive from Clavaillon. Though it used to be called ‘the sleeping beauty’, with abandoned warehouses on the riverfront, heavy traffic, and facades of buildings blackened by air pollution, the long running redevelopment programmes has transformed the city into a beautiful and vibrant place where even Parisians would love to move to, as, since July 2017, the new high speed rail line lets you travel between the two cities in 2 hours. Since 2007, half of Bordeaux has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, too.
Clavaillon is situated towards the South East corner of the vast and world famous Bordeaux wine region, including Médoc, Graves, Pomerol, Sauternes, Saint-Émillion. It will be a great day out to visit those regions or even a chateau or two, not only for wine but also for a sumptuous meal, bucolic scenery, and horse riding.
The nearest international airport (Bordeaux Merignac) and TGV station (Bordeaux St Jean) can be reached from Clavaillon in 45 minutes by car. The nearest local station to Clavaillon is in Langon which is 25 minutes drive away. Other major airports around Clavaillon are in Bergerac (90 minutes away by car) and Biarritz and Toulouse (2 hours away each).
There is a private parking space in front of our gîte.
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