Holiday Cottage Midi Pyrenees, Hautmont, France

Hautmont Cottage

   ...ref.no: 1170

Accommodation   (Self Catering Cottage, sleeps: 2)

Bedrooms 1 bedroom

Bathrooms 1 bathroom

Outdoors private garden

Haumont” meaning hilltop, is a former parish of 200 hectares (450 acres), home to about 20 families and surrounded by lovely countryside.
There is a a state-of-the-art Boarding Cattery, and a tiny rural cottage to let for short breaks.
Someone said that staying here is a bit like camping without the tent.

Facilities include:

• floor area is about 25 m sq (the main room is 14 ft sq)
  
• It's well insulated
  
• double bed
  
• gas immersion hot water
  
• There is a radio but no TV
  
• The back door faces a private 4 acre sessile oak woodland, a home to birds and bats
  
• Organic figs, plums, and blackberries mature in August and September and guests are welcome to pick them.
  
  
• The absence of traffic noise makes the silence deafening
  
• The night skies are fantastic, there is no light pollution
  
• There is no swimming pool. It's so quiet
  

You just come for the tranquillity and the smell and sounds of nature where you can concentrate on the sounds of insects and birds which include nightingales, skylarks, golden orioles, buzzards and owls.

Boarding Cattery
We have a new dedicated building (like those recommended by the UK Feline Advisory Bureau), compliant with the French county vet DSV.
We accept vaccinated, sterilized cats in good health, and those currently on prescribed medication/treatment.

Located on the south ridge of the ancient bank of the Garonne, 50 minutes from Toulouse airport, Auch, Agen and Montauban with Lourdes and Bordeaux are just two hours away.

About the Region:

• The area is famous for white garlic which is still peeled by hand.
  
• There are two local vineyards, lots of fruit growing and hazelnuts.
  
• The farming is mostly arable - corn, wheat, soya, sunflowers and rape-seed.
  
  
• The Barrau estate has 14 sloping acres of which half is indigenous deciduous woodland and the other half is fields.
  Blackberry has been allowed to colonise a lot of the downhill field, forming extensive wildlife corridors. This provides food plant & shelter for bees, wasps, butterflies, nesting birds, hares and the occasional wild boar.
  
  
• On the bird migration route through the Pyrenees where summer grasslands buzz with insects, providing food for swallows, swifts, frogs, toads, lizards and snakes.
  
  
• We have on-going wildlife audits, and so far we have identified 49 bird species, 48 butterfly species, plus hundreds of types of moths and beetles.
  

 

week: Sat-Sat sleeps: 2 s.catering: pvt.garden: countryside: walking: cycling: