Village House in Aude, France

Chez Pierrette details

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Gazebo, back garden

Hammock, back garden

Patio, front garden

Bizes' natural swimming pool

Home description

Spacious house situated in charming mediaeval village.  Large garden.  Sleeps 6 - 8.  River swimming is 3 minutes walk.  35 minutes to Mediterranean Sea.

You enter the walled front garden past flower beds planted with roses and honeysuckle onto the patio, perfect for alfresco dining and shaded by a plane tree and vines with stone steps up to the back garden. There is also a portable barbecue available.

The back garden has a shaded gazebo and lawns for sunbathing, a comfortable hammock, space for the paddling pool and is filled with mediterranean plants - lavender, mimosa, hibiscus, and various fig, apricot and olive trees.

Accommodation detail

Top bedroom

Dining room

Back Bedroom

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The house is arranged predominantly over the ground floor.

• The open plan sitting room is entered through a porch, good for storing sandy beach clothes. It has a high, wood-beamed ceiling, large open fireplace, coffee table, armchair and sofa
• A wide archway connects the adjoining dining room which has a table to seat 8 people
• off which is the kitchen, overlooking the front garden
• Turning right at the front door is a second sitting room or television room. This  room has a TV with free to air French and English satellite programs, DVD player (with films available to hire from "Utile" around the corner) and a pull out sofa bed. It makes a good children's bedroom, if needed, with room for a second bed. There is a staircase to
• an upstairs double bedroom and en-suite shower room with basin, bidet and toilet, it also has its own terrace, running the length of the house
• Through the sitting room is a corridor off which are the separate WC
• a bathroom with shower over bath, basin and bidet
• a laundry room
• a twin bedroom with separate dressing room and
• a double bedroom with additional space for a single bed or cot

About the location

Bize is a gem of a village set amongst the olive groves and vineyards of the Minervois wine region that lie between the foothills of the Black Mountains and the beaches of the Mediterranean Sea. Amongst its narrow mediaeval streets you will find three restaurants, a baker, cafe, bar, two grocers, a newsagent as well as a pharmacy, doctor, dentist and hairdresser and there is a market every Wednesday morning. The river Cesse flows through it and is dammed to produce a clean, natural swimming pool which has lifeguards in the Summer.

See Local guide and map for information on nearby towns and facilities.

Activities near by

Ballooning, Bird Watching, Boating, Boules, Canoeing, Caving, Cycling, Drawing and painting, Fishing, Flying, Golf, Gourmet dining, Hiking, Kayaking, Mountain biking, Paragliding, Photography, Pottery, Rambling, Riverside activities, Rock climbing, Sailing, Scuba Diving, Sea excursions, Shopping, Sightseeing, Skiing, Snorkelling, Swimming, Tennis, Theme parks, Walking, Water skiing, Water sports, White water rafting, Wind Surfing, Wine tasting, Wine touring

See Activities and attractions for more information on nearby activities and places of interest.

How to get here

If you are flying, the drive from Bezier airport takes 30 mins, Carcasssonne 45 minutes, Perpignan 60 minutes and Montpellier or Toulouse 90 minutes.

By rail from London take the Eurostar/ TGV via Lille or Paris to Narbonne which is a 20 minute drive from Bize.

By road leave the A9 at Beziers Junction 36 or Narbonne South J38 or leave the A61 at Lezignan J25.

See Local guide and map for information on nearby towns and airports.