Wow, that's a gap! Good news is that we aren't ill, or moved away - truth is we have been too busy doing other things, including hosting lots of very satisfied guests, to take the time to write on the

Wow, it's 2018 already. More blogging to follow shortly.  Happy New Year!

Great news! We now have a licence for table d'hotes meals too! FRom 1st March we will be offering 3 course evening meals with wine as well as our famous breakfast. Keep checking the blog for more info

Our next door (literally the next house to us) neighbours Nicolas and Amandine make some really excellent Crémant and Blanquette de Limoux.  We bought a bottle of each of their varieties to try.  All

Amanda has been experimenting with slow cooked meals using the log burning oven in the snug. It has been a cold winter, according to the locals, so we made efficient use of the room heating to also pr

Dinner tonight – Sea Bream with buttered carrots, spinach and potatoes. One of our neighbours recommended a local fish source which we drove down to this afternoon. The best of the selection was th

So this weekend there was a "festival of veal" up in Limoux, so we decided to join in with some cotes de veau.  A few potatoes and some local courgettes and there you go. A glass of bio pinot noir to

A mixed weekend in the region weather-wise. Saturday was a shirt-sleeves day but Sunday was more drizzly and colder. We spent Saturday doing some essential administrative tasks to ensure the correct b

Our first weekend as hosts. Some very good friends came across to give us some feedback on the proposed business offering and their thoughts were very, very positive.  We adapted quickly to the differ

There has been a blog delay due to the pressures of time and to the fact that we had family across for a week, both to show them the new home and to give the place a full shake-down for the first payi

A mixed Easter weekend on the weather front.  Friday was very pleasant, Saturday less so, then Sunday was marvellous.  Monday was nice too.  It looks like the weather is starting to change.  It surpri

It has been a mixed weekend down in Serres.  I don’t know a lot about wine production, but people who know a lot more than me will talk about ‘terroir’ being key to the quality of the grapes produced.

It’s getting closer and closer to the formal opening of our business in the first week of June.  There have been some very successful soft launch weekends with friends, and our first paying guests hav

We are constantly surprised by how good the ingredients for cooking are here in the Aude. Today we went up to LeClerc in Limoux to get some food in for the Xmas break. Hanging behind the butchery coun