La grange

A Normandy adventure

We arrive at our gite Auberge du Noyer, Landisacq mid-afternoon, greeted by our host, Madame Costarde with welcoming energy. They have 40ha of pastures that support 40 beef cattle. I am delighted to see our converted barn nestles in the valley bottom, overlooking a water meadow, with a tangle of towering aspens, and alder behind. The gite is well-appointed and filled with light. I feel a surge of nostalgia as I wade through the sunlit, dew-covered mosaic of familiar meadow flora sorrel, and rush, cocksfoot and dock trawled by iridescent green damsel flies and alive with tiny grasshoppers. A pair of buzzards wheels and mews above the trees, and a heron peels gracefully from the riverbank. I cross an ancient flat-stone footbridge and follow a footpath past an 14th century parish boundary cross (during the Nazi occupation, the locals would swivel the cross-head through 90-degrees when there was some Nazi danger nearby). I head up up through a hazel-roofed tunnel, between the sloping pasture land, the vegetable scent of cow-dung hanging in the evening air. Beech mast and leaf litter crunch beneath my feet. It is so lovely to have escaped the uncomfortable mediterranean August heat, and I feel I have fallen into heaven.

This is a great base for exploring the beautiful Normandy landscape with its chateaux, castles, villages, farms, footpaths.

Posted on 09/03/2024

Excellent séjour

Gîte situé au calme, bon accueil. Un très bon séjour, dans une très belle région. Et le restaurant de l'auberge est très bon.

Posted on 09/06/2024

Accueil très chaleureux

Déjà notre 2eme séjour dans ce gîte où nous passons à chaque fois d’agréables moments. Les propriétaires sont très accueillantes et disponibles, tout en étant discrètes. Le gîte est confortable et bien équipé.
Nous y reviendrons, sans nul doute.

Posted on 08/06/2024