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Cottage |3 bedrooms |Sleeps 7

St Nicolas des Eaux in Blavet Valley

From £375 per week

7 nights minimum stay

Changeover Saturday

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Key info  Swimming pool, beach or lakeside relaxation, car essential, private garden, no pets allowed

About the home

Newly renovated, comfortable cottage suitable for any time of year, it has a wood burning stove in the living room. Wi Fi computer link, Satellite T.V. DVD player. Comfortable, high quality furnishings, Safe secure garden for small children.

A sunny large secure grassed garden suitable for small children. Garden Furniture and BBQ. A paddling pool for little ones has been added for 2011

A larger swimming pool is based in a small local hotel near the cottage and is free for my guests. There is an outside bar, boules court and crazy golf. It is a chance to really mix with the local people.

Facilities

Further details indoors:
Six adult bikes and two bikes suitable for 8-12yrs are available free of charge, also included are a trailer bike for 4-9yrs and a trailer to hold two toddlers. Two free canoes are available. Our motor riverboat is for hire at £50 per day with instruction included. Evening Champagne Cruises could be the highlight of your holiday with Champagne and aperitifs as you cruise the beautiful river.
Other bikes can be hired locally, e.g tandems.
Fishing excursions( rods are available for hire along with bait )

Further details

Your English speaking hosts are nearby to answer any questions. The cottage is suitable for longer lets for those who may be house hunting.

Long term lets available from the end of September until the end of April.

Changeover day: Saturday

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Cygnet Cottage

 

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The lane where Cygnet is located

 

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The lounge/diner

 

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The farmhouse-style kitchen

The Brittany / Morbihan region

On the doorstep there are wonderful riverside walks. Angling is among the finest in France. There is a highly acclaimed golf course nearby together with horse riding, kayaking, indoor and outdoor swimming pools. By car there are dozens of secluded beautiful beaches with safe swimming, hundreds of picturesque towns, villages and hamlets each with their own bars, restaurants and sights of interest, prehistoric sites, a hands-on small theme park and a working genuine medieval village, numerous museums ranging from affairs maritime to collections of old postcards.

The list is endless. However, clubs and discotheques are so thin on the ground (except in resorts like Carnac) as to be virtually non-existant. Brittany / Morbihan region has engaging scenery, charming villages, warm people…fine foods and good wine, a peaceful rural setting, relaxing outdoor pursuits and many beautiful beaches.

It's a quiet fishing and farming region with beautiful and varied coast and lush farmland, woods and moors to delight the country lovers. The Bretons welcome everyone to their local Pardonsfand fetes, regional costumes, music, dances, legends and language maintained by the Bretons are a large part of the area's unique charm.

Brittany 's restaurants and bistros provide excellent meals, including the legendary fruits de mer, crepes and cider. A rich architectural and archaeological heritage give excellent tours. Towns such as Pontivy, Josselin, Dinan and Vannes are full of historical interest. Plus there are megaliths, churches.

The Golfe du Morbihan, a yachtsman's paradise, water-sports and numerous islands are a short drive away.

The Blavet Valley / St Nicolas des Eaux area

In the village there are two restaurants, three bars and a creperie. The nearest supermarket (Intermache) is in Plumeliau, a few minutes down the road by car. A baker from a neighbouring village calls at St Nicolas every morning at 8.30 and stops outside our cottages for the sale of baguettes, croissants, pastries etc. A mobile butcher and grocer calls several times a week. The Blavet Valley attracts artists from afar and there are artistic events in the village.

All rooms are newly-decorated and fitted with good quality modern furnishings. The cottages are in the extremely friendly little community of St Nicolas des Eaux, a delightful riverside village in a conservation area on the banks of the beautiful Blavet. It's some 3km from Plumeliau between Pontivy and Baud in Morbihan.

The properties are in a lane of attractive, renovated 18th century former Breton farmworkers' stone-built cottages, many thatched.

How to get there

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CHEAP FLIGHTS available from FLYBE from Southampton and Exeter to Brest and Rennes also Birmingham to Brest.
EASYJET flights from Gatwick to Nantes. Glasgow/Edinburgh to Paris.
AIRLINGUS flights Belfast to Paris.
BMI / AURIGNY AIR Aberdeen to Rennes and Dinard ( not direct )
RYANAIR flights from Bristol, Luton, Stanstead to Dinard , also East Midlands to Dinard and Nantes.
AIR ARANN from Luton, Kerry, Cork, Galway, and Waterford to L'Orient.
FERRIES to St. Malo, Roscoff, Caen and Cherbourg from Plymouth, Poole, Weymouth, Portsmouth, Newhaven and Dover.
IRISH FERRIES Rosslare to Cherbourg, BRITTANY FERRIES Cork to Roscoff.
The channel tunnel is also possible with a good road to the village takes approximately 6 hours.

Car hire is not expensive in Brittany and is available in all ferry ports and airports.

FERRY DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE

Activities near Blavet Valley

Guestbook for Cygnet Cottage

Of all the gites we've ever been to this has been by far the best - The Eccles family, Donhead.
We have spent a lovely fortnight in this beautiful, peaceful village - the MacFarlane Family, Ruislip.

We picked the right day to take the self-drive motorboat up the river and had a wonderful picnic - Brian and Jackie Wiltshire, Corsham.

Amazing - free new bikes available for all to use, just the job for cycling along the river towpath - John and Mary Rowling and family, Oxford
Today we took the boat and spent a glorious 7 hours cruising the river with a picnic and wine. Sheer bliss. Pip, Nicky, Nick and Viv from Dorset.
Great place to just relax or to sightsee. We loved the boat trip with champagne and nibbles. Neil and Mo
Great holiday the children loved the canoes and bikes, we loved the scenery and beaches. We will return

Rental prices

Prices for group size 7
Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
Low Season	8 Jan 11	28 May 11	375£ 375	0-	0-	1 Week
Mid Season	28 May 11	23 Jul 11	495£ 495	0-	0-	1 Week
Peak Season	23 Jul 11	3 Sep 11	695£ 695	0-	0-	2 Weeks
Mid Season	3 Sep 11	1 Oct 11	495£ 495	0-	0-	1 Week
low season	1 Oct 11	17 Dec 11	375£ 375	0-	0-	1 Week
	17 Dec 11	7 Jan 12	695£ 695	0-	0-	1 Week

NB: Prices may be subject to change at the advertiser's discretion.

Payment by credit transfer, electronic (online) transfer, Paypal (2.5% surcharge), or cheque.

Changeover day: Saturday

Availability

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3 years listed You are contacting Patricia Zwartouw Landline +44 01305 780061 Mobile n/a Languages spoken The owner is based in the United Kingdom and has advertised with Holiday Lettings since 2008. This cottage has so far received 0 reviews.

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