Welcome to gurson.co.uk, the website for owners and visitors to our house.
Here’s a very recent review from TripAdvisor. What can I say about this place that will catch your attention…its FREE. Free Swimming, Free canoe and kayaking, free parking. Toilets and changing on site, lifeguards too. Also two cafés serving tasty and competitively price food. We visited 3 times in ten days. It helped that temperature […]
This is the definitive best guide to driving in France. Fully updated and with all the information you need about road signs, radar, routes and a great deal more.
The cuisine of South West France is renowned and the area around our house in the Dordogne is no exception. Here’s a recipe for T’Agen with Périgord lamb, an original recipe from Vincent Poussard, Quai des Saveurs. Ingredients 1.2 kg shoulder of Perigord lamb boned 100 g raisins 50 g Perigord walnuts 100 g Prunes […]
One of the best things about where we are based is that there are lots of local walks which show off the best of the French countryside. Visitors to Saint-Martin-de-Gurson will have seen the sign in the middle of the village (next to the church) which sets out details of a local walk. Well the […]
Here’s a new page featuring the superb Chateau Feely. Caro and Sean Feely provide the ideal vineyard visit if you’re visiting the house. They are champions of organic wine and I can vouch for the fact that it’s very good! As they say, they produce Handmade organic wines born on grand terroir; the limestone plateau […]
As you may have seen in the news the counterpart driving licence is being discontinued on 8 June. The usual procedure when hiring a car in France has been to produce the photo card licence and the counterpart. In future the procedure is to use the DVLA “share licence information” portal which, thankfully, is very […]
There is a new Flickr page from Pays de Bergerac with superb photos of the area. Here are a few examples:
La Maison du Vin est la vitrine institutionnelle des vins des appellations Saint-Emilion, Saint-Emilion Grand Cru, Lussac Saint-Emilion et Puisseguin Saint-Emilion. Plus de 250 châteaux sont ainsi représentés et vendus au prix de la propriété, dans une boutique ouverte 7 jours sur 7 de 9h30 à 19h. This is really worth a visit. It’s the best place to find great St Emilion wine without it costing […]
What to make of this? We now have cabaret in a circus tent in Saint Martin de Gurson! In the middle of nowhere, near Les Gatineaux, previously best known for Emmanuel Provin’s foie gras farm (where I found out that geese run forward from an orchard to be fed and thereby disprove the naysayers), we […]
Yesterday was 29 degrees and I was in IKEA Bordeaux buying various new items for the house. Today it’s rained all day so a perfect opportunity for assembling my purchases! First stop the lounge and a new bookcase. Although about half the size of the old one I’ve still managed to fit in all the […]
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