Le Puy - Gite picture

The gite is usually found under a blue sky.

Le Puy

Here are a few pictures of Paul and Kay's gite at Le Puy, near Nontron.

Here is the chestnut house where you can store the wine you are planning to take home.

There is a suntrap courtyard round to side of the gite, where you can dine in the shade in the evening.

A rare photo with the sun umbrella down, this is the front of the gite, behind it's garden wall.

Le Puy sunset

The sun sets behid the hills to the west of Nontron. The pool cools a little, which means that only people used to swimming in the sea at St Andrews should attempt the late swim.

For everyone else, a few glasses of wine might be the choice way to end the day.

Nontron - home of the supermarket

Nontron is lovely in the sunshine. Useful too if you want to buy food. Apart from the normal shops, Nontron sells knives. Look it up. There is a knife festival in August which might be interesting.

Also useful for Lidl, Super U, cash machines, and other dull things.

Le Puy Gite - and the sailors

From the gite at Le Puy, we went for a day trip to the Dordogne river region. We went to Sarlat and had a great pizza lunch in the old town. After some serious shopping, we went on to the banks of the Dordogne wher we found a coffee shop! You can hire canoes from here, and paddle down the river, but you can just sit and have another coffee :)

Le Puy and the Crusaders

The knights are not in Domme anymore. At the end of a long day we went for a wee look round Domme. The gate towers in the picture below were where the knights were held. They must have been bad. I was going to try to leave some family members....

Le Puy pool

We were spoilt by the pool that Paul has built.

Perfectly private, beautifully finished with a fixed depth (1.5M)

Sunloungers with umbrellas, and a lovely hot stone seat.

While we were there, the unheated pool varied from 22 to 24 degrees.

I swam every day, and the stragglers joined me most days.

There is a fridge in the pool house which keep beer cold!