Category Archives: Languedoc

Your Flexible Friend in the Real South of France

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Your Flexible Friend in the the Warm Heart of Languedoc, the Real South of France

I’m talking about our home and B&B, Villa Roquette, not Carole or me, although we will bend over backwards to make you welcome and help you to discover the most interesting region in France.

We have designed our accommodation to be flexible for your wishes. Our apartments and our Bed and Breakfast accommodation can be arranged to give individual private rooms all with en-suite bathrooms,showers and private entrances, or we can combine units to give one, two three or four bedrooms suits or apartments for bigger family units. All with air-conditioning (and central heating for winter evenings).

We offer you either self catering, or B&B – with evening meals if you wish.

Our dates are flexible, whether you stay for one night, a few days, a week or for a few months, you can arrive and leave at any time on any day of the week.

Stay with us on a flexible plan where you use us as your home-base for your trip, leave your luggage (husband, kids etc), but only pay for the nights you stay. You can leave your car in our secure parking and use the wonderful (and inexpensive) French rail network to visit other areas and cities (Paris is under 4 hours and the last thing you need in Paris is a car) – we do all the driving, to and from local rail or airport connections for you. Spain is only an hour away, so you could take the train to Barcelona. or take advantage of the great deals from Beziers airport (only 20 minutes from us and we do a shuttle service) to other Euopean capital cities.

All guests have the free use of bicycles, golf clubs, swimming pool, barbecue areas, terraces and gardens, beach and picnic items plus lots more..

You can book online now, or contact us for any special wishes.

We are keeping our old prices for as long as possible, as a newsletter subscriber I guarantee that you can book at this years prices until January 31st.

Do come and share our home with us, we would love to see you here.

Tony and Carole

When Does Winter Begin

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We live here, in Villa Roquette, in the sunny heart of the Real south of France.

Summer is easy to recognise, hot shimmering days, flourishing vineyards and cafes festooned with garlands of people (blah… that is enough soppy copy).

Winter is a time vaguely between Autumn an Spring and the exact start is sort of forgotten, shoved aside as an irritating interruption with Christmas and (more importantly for the French) New Year as focal points of a wobbly ellipse of time.

I looked up the “official” start of Winter – not surprisingly there are several – the astronomical winter is from the winter equinox (around December 21 for France) – but this is later than the traditional date of November 1 (All Saints Day or Samhain in older ideas) – The Chinese fix it around November 7.

If winter is the coldest three months of the year, then for us this would start around the endish of November – for me it starts when we like to turn on the central heating for a couple of hours in the morning and evening and is confirmed when we light log fires in our living room to cheer up the darkening evenings.

So I can now state with certainty that officially winter started today – chimney is swept, boiler is cleaned and calibrated, logs have been gathered for the fire and the central heating was switched on this morning.

Now I can announce our winter special offers for Villa Roquette.

We still have our “Rose Apartment” available from the beginning of December and can offer B&B in our “Olive” and “Sunflower” suites.

Villa Roquette availability book now

Our prices are already very very competitive (low) and we are not raising them (well at least not until next year) – but, if you wish to escape for a short break, or stay for a few months and share some winter sunshine – then make me an offer and join us in  Villa Roquette – you will be made very welcome

Cap d’Agde Autumn Boat Fair 2011

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Cap d’Agde is hosting the Autumn Boat Fair from Friday 28th
October to Sunday 1st November 2011, a major event in the
Mediterranean market in new and second hand boats and
nautical equipment

Recognised as a major centre for water sports and pleasure sailing,
the sailing waters of Cap d’Agde can cope with the requirements of
the most demanding sailors. Its situation in the centre of the Gulf du
Lion, the quality of its facilities and its port make it one of the major
centres of nautical activity in the Languedoc-Roussillon region.

Major boat builders and brands will be taking advantage of the
occasion to present, in advance of the Paris Boat Fair, all the new
models for the coming year. A total of some 500 sailing and motor
boats, both new and second hand, will be on display. Some great
deals are on the horizon for those who want to translate their
nautical dreams into reality…

The Cap d’Agde Boat Fair is pulling out all the stops to surprise,
interest, educate and inform its visitors who enjoy pleasure sailing
and love the sea, in a festive atmosphere.

Get low cost flight (available from just 9 euro) to Beziers or Montpellier, use our guest shuttle service and stay with us at Villa Roquette