Mortain holiday cottage rental with walking, log fire, rural retreat, DVD

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Chez Barry (cottage)

Home description

£300/week from September to end May-includes Xmas/New Year. This spacious cottage, retains all old features of beams, rafters and fire place with wood burner. It is situated on the edge of a small hamlet overlooking fields and forests - a wonderful place to relax. Your vacation holiday home, rural retreat in Normandy, with a French colonial Moroccan influence from the kitchen tiles to the sumptuous imported fabrics, rugs, light shades. In the heat of summer the cottage is cool and in the winter warm and cosy with log fire. Outside is a private patio and garden where you can enjoy breakfast with the birds singing, evening soirées with the stars and owls. There are colourful flower beds, a lawn , swings for children and a 4.5m plunge pool. The layout of the cottage - ground floor, large open plan lounge, dining room and kitchen area and off this is the bathroom. The second floor, under the roof with exposed oak beams are 3 bedrooms and a separate toilet. Long winter let available.

South facing patio area from garden	Comfortable Spacious Lounge
Open plan Kitchen	Second Bedroom

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The Normandy / Manche region

An area of great rural charm with a coast line of miles of beaches. Generally having longer hotter summers than the UK going well into the autumn. A small sample of where to go and what happens there is: Agon Coutainville gather your own mussels, Grandville sur Mer-horse cart rides on the beach, Grandeville -golf,casino, St. Mere Eglise-war museum, Hambye-large ruined abbey, Carouge-canooing, kayaking, horse riding, assault courses, Putanges Pont Ecrepin-large lake for boating, Conde sur Noireau-aquatic activity swimming centre, Bellefontaine Parc for the young with animated fairy scenes and miniature railway, Caumont l'Evente -old slate mines with tunnels caves and underground lakes, Clecy-one of Europes largest miniature railway museums, Champrepus-zoo specialising in breeding lemurs, Mont St Michel-monastery in the sea and reptilaruim, Villedieu les Poeles-for anything made with copper especially pans, Falaise castle home of William the Conquerour, Fougere-castle, Bagnoles de l'Orne-casino and golf, Domfront-Medieval Festival, Vire-jazz festival.

Mortain area

The cottage is ideally situated to explore beautiful Normandy-quaint geranium filled villages with street markets selling local produce. Mortain has a range of shops, large supermarket with wonderful fish counter, weekly market, waterfalls and abbey, WW11 site with chapel, heated outside swimming pool, go-carting. Locally are miles of old railway tracks to walk and cycle on, forests, day trout and carp fishing.
Visit Medieval Castles, fabulous beaches-nearest only 45 mins away. Visit the Calvados and cider farms.. Have a day in Paris-leave your car in Flers 15 miles away and take a train. The famous Mont St Michel is 48 miles away. WW2 sites can be done on day trips. Information pamphlets for where to go and what to see in the cottage.
Nearest shopping and supermarket in Ger or Barenton 5miles, Mortain-8 miles away.

How to get there

How to get there
The situation with ferries and flights are for ever changing and so a search on the internet will soon give you the latest information.
Ferries from the UK to
1)Caen 58miles (93kms) 1hr 40mins to drive to us.
2)Cherbourg: 87miles (139.5kms) 2hrs
3)Le Havre 115miles (183kms) 2hrs 30mins
4)St Malo 78miles (125kms) 1hrs 45mins
5)Boulogne and Calais are 5 to 6 hour drive away
6)Dieppe 170miles 3hrs 30mins
Ferries from the UK to the above ports leave the UK from Dover, Portsmouth and Poole. The other shorter crossings from the UK are less expensive but further away.
Flights from the UK to Dinard near St Malo.

Activities near Mortain

Facilities

Further details indoors:
Kitchen is well equipped-a large stainless steel gas cooker with 5 burners and large oven- microwave - food processor. All you prepare can be served up on a table that can extend to 3metres. There is also plenty cupboard space.
The TV is Satellite Free View so you will have UK TV channels and also radio-there is a DVD player-please bring your own DVDs and CDs.
Bathroom has an electric heater, bath and shower over the bath. There is a separate toilet with sink.
High chair, stairgate and cot available.
Bedrooms: Comfortable beds. Large romantic master bedroom. 2nd bedroom with double bed. 3rd bedroom has a bunk bed and a single bed. Electric radiators in bedrooms if needed.
Winter lets: the house is very warm with a large efficient easy to work wood burner. The house has double glazing and a great deal of roof insulation.
2 electric fans to keep cool in summer.

Further details outdoors:
Private area for eating -BBQ, table chairs with sun shade, sun loungers. Private lawned flower garden with swings, 4.5 metre plunge pool.

FURTHER NOTES
Heating is low and efficient using local sustainable wood and using off peak electricity. The house is so well insulated – double glazing and loft insulation- that a wheel barrow of wood is enough to keep the whole house warm in the coldest of weather.
We practice recycling and provide bins for compost, glass, plastic and general rubbish which we will take away when the bins are full.
We have our own sewage system and provide all the eco friendly products needed to keep it running efficiently – toilet paper, washing liquids, toilet cleaners and an explanation leaflet on why this is necessary.

Rental rates

Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
	26 Sep 09	29 May 10	300£ 300	5050	5050	4 Nights
	29 May 10	5 Jun 10	350£ 350	5050	5050	4 Nights
	5 Jun 10	24 Jul 10	450£ 450	0-	0-	1 Week
	24 Jul 10	28 Aug 10	500£ 500	0-	0-	1 Week
	28 Aug 10	25 Sep 10	400£ 400	5858	5858	4 Nights

The property's weekend rates apply to: Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights

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

Xmas/New Year - for this year - a flat winter rate of £300/week which includes Xmas and New Year.

£300/week from 26th September to end of May 2010

Booking dates-prefer Sat to Sat in peak season but flexible - please contact.

We also accept payment in Euros.

We ask for a Deposit of 20%-payable at time of booking and the Balance 5 weeks before the stay.

Rent includes bed linen, towels, T towels, toilet paper, cleaning products and heating.

Winter lets: the house is very warm with a large efficient easy to work wood burner-radiators in bedrooms and heater in the bathroom. The house has double glazing and a great deal of roof insulation.

Renovating your property-need a long winter let? Longer lets from October to the end of March considered at greatly reduced rates. Please contact to discuss.

Guestbook for Chez Barry

Have spent an incredible relaxing week in this lovely house which has been everything that we hoped it would be. Lovely décor, well equipped and topped off with a wood burning fire. The garden and the pool were icing on the cake and would recommend evening trips down the lane glow bug spotting as well as plenty of star gazing. Had a great meal out in Mortain but spent most nights enjoying the comforts of this lovely cottage. B T London and S. Wales

What a beautiful home you have created here. You have thought of everything possible to make the perfect holiday home. It is probably one of the nicest, most relaxed places, we have ever stayed in. We will definitely be back-the children have loved it here. T & H C West Sussex


Really great house with lovely décor-very nicely furnished. Having the pool was fantastic had a lot of fun in it. Had a day in Paris and some good weather. Really lovely log burning fire and spacious rooms. N M aged 12

Availability

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Contact details for the advertiser of home 19415
Name:	Barry Everson
Tel:	+33 (0)233 695273
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