House with Pool near the River Dordogne

L'Oie Sauvage details

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The house from the pool

View towards the pool from the kitchen window

The private swimming pool

The house

The Dordogne

Home description

Location, location, location!

This is where you want to spend your holidays. In a house ten minutes walk from a quaint village with four restaurants, and a shorter walk to the river Dordogne itself. Once in your car you are only half an hour from a huge variety of places to see, and activities to do.

Come and relax in the shade of the catalpa and acacia trees in the garden of this dormer bungalow located less than half a mile from the pretty medieval village of Trémolat. The house is located beside the "Cingle" or loop of the river Dordogne and is in an area of special conservation.

Accommodation detail

The living room

L'Oie Sauvage actually has four bedrooms, two on the ground floor, and two upstairs. The design of the house is such that the two upstairs rooms can be ignored by parties of four or fewer. A couple or a small family will feel it to be cosy and welcoming, although the house is spacious enough for bigger parties. Families with three children may use the three-bed upstairs room instead of the downstairs twin room. Floors are ceramic tiled throughout, except in the bedrooms, which have wooden floors. This is our holiday home, and is equipped for living, not just as a gîte!

The accommodation comprises:

Ground Floor

First Floor

Outside

There is garden furniture, table, chairs, sun loungers and barbecue. For the children there is a playframe and slide (for the under eights), a big selection of outdoor toys and games for both in the garden and in the pool. There is car parking space for three cars. See below for fuller details of this lovely area.

Swim in the private fenced, 8 x 4 metre pool with Roman staircase and jacuzzi jets. You can lounge beside the pool or wandering when you wish, down through the orchard where you can pick the fruit in season (cherries, apples, plums, pears, walnuts). The bottom of the long orchard garden comes within 20 metres of the river Dordogne. Public access to the river including a boat slip and the "Bassin Nautique" is just a couple of hundred metres away.

About the location

Trémolat has a boulangerie, 2 small supermarkets, one with a butchers counter, a bar/restaurant, a pizzeria, and two very high quality restaurants, the Vieux Logis luxury hotel, and the Bistrot d'en Face, on the main square (owned by the hotel, and with a similar quality of cuisine). There is also a weekly market on Tuesday mornings.

Trémolat, a medieval village with enormous charm, is located beside the Dordogne where is forms a massive "Cingle" or loop. The river etches a huge arc and becomes wide enough to be a lake (hence the water skiing). Close by there are magnificent views over the Cingle du Trémolat. There is a fortified church which testifies to the turbulent history of the area.

The nearest shopping towns are the beautiful Le Bugue on the Vezere River to the east, and Lalinde on the Dordogne to the west. The river Vézère joins the Dordogne at the lovely village of Limeuil just a few minutes drive from Trémolat. Enclosed between the rivers Vezere and Dordogne (the "golden triangle") is a veritable treasure of prehistoric sites, beautiful caves from, for example, Lascaux with cave paintings, to the Gouffre de Proumeyssac with stalactites in a forty metre high underground cavern.

All over the region are "bastide" and other towns with restaurants serving the wonderful Perigordian food. All these locations are within easy drives from Trémolat. For those who like the French markets, you are in easy reach of one in different towns every day of the week.

Look west for a moment, and there is the Perigord "Pourpre" (Purple Perigord) so called because it is a huge wine producing region, with Bergerac, Pecharmont, St. Emilion and Bordeaux, all within a comfortable drive. Wine tasting possibilities abound!! The Chateau of Monbazillac is but one particularly wonderful example of architecture, and a wonderful wine which goes so well with paté du foie gras, a speciality of Perigord.

In short, Trémolat is in the centre of a region which would take happy months to explore.

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

Activities near by

Skiing, Canoeing, Mountain biking, Golf, Wine tasting, Swimming

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

How to get here

By Car

Many routes are possible after travelling through any of the ferryports. We often travel to Cherbourg and head for Le Mans, Tours, then the A10 autoroute to Poitiers, and on to Limoges, Perigueux, Le Bugue, and then signposts to Trémolat. Roscoff is also good, with excellent roads down western France to north of Bordeaux, where you turn east for Bergerac.

By Air

You can fly to Bordeaux, which is about a 2 hour drive via Bergerac to Trémolat, or fly Ryanair from Stanstead or Flybe from Southampton both direct to Bergerac, which is about a 30 minute drive to Trémolat.

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