Beautiful Home In The Vallee De La Course
Quiet Designer's Home, Near Le Touquet, Golf, Beaches, Restaurants, Cafes, Markets, Historic Sites
Sleeps 4 (2 Bedrooms)
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A Californian designer transformed this house into an open, light, unfussy home. Refreshingly modern and light yet very comfortable throughout. An open-plan downstairs with modern kitchen, comfortable living area with a woodburning stove that warms the whole house. The garden, terraces and courtyard are all very private, overseen by no-one. All year round the courtyard is a delightful sanctuary to spend time reading, writing, playing cards or eating by candlelight. The village wins awards every year for its floweriness! Golfers, walkers and cyclists are spoilt for choice, historians, chateaux/garden lovers, twitchers too. Montreuil-sur-Mer is adorned with flowers and is steeped in historical interest. Nearby Le Touquet is famous for its quaint airport, equestrian & other sports, the casino, chic boutiques, large market twice a week and numerous fine food & fish shops. Wine lovers and gastronomes particularly enjoy this area.
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| Rental Period | Per Night | Per Week | Per Month | Min. Stay (Nights) |
| 5 May 2012 - 2 June 2012 | £750 | 7 | ||
| 2 June 2012 - 9 June 2012 | £850 | 7 | ||
| 9 June 2012 - 30 June 2012 | £800 | 7 | ||
| 30 June 2012 - 8 September 2012 | £900 | 7 | ||
| 8 September 2012 - 13 October 2012 | £650 | 7 | ||
| 13 October 2012 - 3 November 2012 | £850 | 7 | ||
| 3 November 2012 - 8 December 2012 | £600 | 7 | ||
| 8 December 2012 - 22 December 2012 | £650 | 7 |
Notes on prices
We are currently having work done on the house. Please email or call us for the next available dates.
Changeover day
Usually Saturday. Leave house by 10am. Arrivals not before 4.30pm. Please call to discuss as we can be flexible if weekends only are required.
Accommodation
| Bedrooms: | Bedroom 1. Double bed, bedside drawers, 2 drawer units giving 8 separate drawers. Cute original windows overlooking the front of house. Bedroom 2. O/P Queensize bed, original window overlooking terrace, garden and sun terrace at the end of the garden. |
| Bathrooms: | White tiled bathroom. Bath with shower over. Toilet, basin, heated towel rail, extractor fan. |
| Kitchen: | Cooker, hob, fridge, double sink, good task lighting. Kitchen table with built in storage trays for vegetables, table cloths etc. Well equipped with plates, pans, cutlery and crockery. |
| Utility Room: | What we call 'the remise' - an outbuilding housing the washing machine and a fridge/freezer. |
| Living Rooms: | Woodstove fireplace, antique sofa, leather arm chair, designer furniture by Phillipe Starke, Alvar Aalto, Vico Magistretti, Achille Castiglioni, Terence Conran and Eileen Gray. Large dining table seats 8 people. TV/DVD with UK Sky channels. |
| Other: | Open-plan wooden staircase from living room to upstairs hallway with a bookcase full of books to borrow during stay. Covered courtyard just off the kitchen for alfresco dining and barbeques. |
| Cleaning/towels/ linen/maid service: |
Please discuss when booking. |
| Amenities/Facilities: | hob/stove oven fridge washing machine iron/ironing board satellite tv tv central heating barbecue |
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Notes on accommodation
Not suitable for small children because of the pond and open-plan nature of the staircase.
Outside
40' lawned garden with mature flower beds. A slate-tiled terrace outside the dining room with a 10' spring-water pond. Sun deck at the end of the garden for late evening sunshine. One old-style French cafe table, 6 slatted chairs. Courtyard with vines and table for 4-6 diners. Rain protection from large professionally hand-made awning. 8 dining chairs, 2 sunchairs, one reclining beach-type deck chair. Can take sun deck table to sit at the front of the house and watch the sunset.
Coast/Beach
Driving time in mins: Le Touquet 20, Berk Plage 23, Merlimont Plage 25, St Cecile 26, Stella Plage 26, Hardelot 29, Le Crotoy 35, Fort Mahon 33, Saint Valery sur Somme 41. Activities include: windsurfing, sandsurfing, sailing, kiteboarding, kitesurfing, surf-edge horseriding, volleyball, winkle picking, clam collecting, beachside brasseries, promenade cafes and restaurants. Sunbathing and picnicing in the dunes with a swim at sunset to end the day is rather nice!
Golf
Superb championship golf courses are just minutes drive away. 20 mins to Le Touquet for the 2 championship courses and a 9 hole course, Le Manoir. La Mer and La Foret offer contrasting style courses. La Mer is regarded as one of the finest 'links' courses in Europe and a stern test for all levels, particularly when the wind blows. La Foret offers a beautiful parkland course that is slightly less challenging. A 29 mins drive from the house you will find 2 very beautiful championship courses in Hardelot, Les Pins and Les Dunes. 17 mins drive away is Golfe de Nampont-Saint-Martin between Montreuil and Abbeville which has two 18 hole courses, Belvedere and The Cygnes set in a combination of woodland and open countryside. 30 mins drive south of Le Touquet is The Belle Dune Golf Course and is ranked the number one in Picardie. A tough, uncompromising dunes/links style course set inside the biggest bird sanctuary in France. Further inland there are 2 wonderful courses at St Omer & Arras.
Travel
Use of car is essential.
Cross channel: Eurotunnel (eurotunnel.com) to Frethun/Calais - 60 mins drive to house. Ferry companies: SeaFrance and P&O to Calais - 75 mins drive to house. Speed Ferries (speedferries.com) to Boulogne - 25 mins drive to house. Lydd Air - direct flights from Lydd to Le Touquet (lyddair.com). Sky South - direct flights from Brighton to Le Touquet (skysouth.co.uk) Hertz car rental at Le Touquet 00 333 21 05 03 99.
Distances
Montreuil town 7 mins drive or 20 mins bike ride. Le Touquet is a 20 min drive or 70 mins cycle. Most beaches can be reached comfortably inside 35 mins. Swimming at the Aquaclub de Belle Dune is 40 mins, adjacent to this is the Belle Dune Golf Club and birdwatching santuary.
Further details
Local shops at Neuville-sous-Montreuil for freshly baked bread and there's a convenient corner shop. The nearest supermarket is Leclerc in Attin, near to Neuville. Montreuil-sur-Mer has many banks, restaurants, bistros, shops, a Shopi supermarket, an open market every Saturday morning, an antiques salesroom, theatre and cinema. Montreuil loves using the town and its walls and citadel for open air theatre and has become famous for its annual open air production of Les Miserables. Boulogne is a large town full of diverse interests probably most famous recently for its Nausicaa marine life observatory and Phillipe Ollivier cheeses. Fresh fish can be bought from the quayside in Boulogne if you don't get to Etaples which is one of the business fish ports in France and has three huge fish shops. For walkers, visit the Office de Tourisme in Montreuil and pick up a book of walks which is published each year 'Promenades Vertes' detailing ordinary and themed walks that cater for walkers with specific interests. Mushrooming, birds, plants, geology, night walks, nature, pretty villages, buildings with architectural and historic note etc. Musee de Picardie, steam train trip in Le Crotoy/St Valery sur Somme. 1st World War battlefields in the Somme. Le Touquet motor bike rally in February and car rally in October. Bird watching at Parc du Marquenterre. International kite festival - Berk Plage in Spring. Chateau and gardens at Abbaye et Jardins de Valloires. Open air theatre and festivals throughout the summer. Walking and cycling routes throughout the valley. In Le Touquet there's a flat and hurdles racecourse and casino for the gamblers, chess and bridge clubs for the card sharks. Concerts, orchestras, football matches, vintage car exhibitions and lots of golf. The list is endless. Arras is a baroque town steeped in history and beauty as are Amiens and Lille. The Office de Tourisme will also have leaflets for cyclists, bird watchers, golfers etc.
Booking notes
Please call house owner.
Guest comments
We're family friends and go over regularly to stay at the house and spent our honeymoon there in September. It's our favourite hide-away home, we light the fire, fall back into the sofa by the burning wood-stove and read, eat and really relax. There's so much to see all around. You can be a big adventurer one day, lay out by the sea the next, do the holiday historic stuff another day and let the lady wife go boutique shopping while you try out the cafes and shop for the lovely wine and pop your head into the antique shops.
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