Horizons Vendeens

After having filled in administrative paper, the concrete part of the restoration of gites -not the least interesting but with all complete surprises- begins, ie. with works of craftsman.

When the earthworkers come, we note that buildings show themselves off to advantage, especially with the demolition of buildings on the right side, which hid superb dressed stones around the front door-to-be.

Photos will summarize and explain better than long comments.

Otherwise, just for your “eyes” during restoration, you have a look on beautiful stones inside the gite -on the front façade- which will be unfortunately hidden before the end of the restoration. Indeed, this wall is too weak and we should solidify it in order to avoid that stones fall.

Front door of gite  Lounge side

If you do not remember how were the gites and the interior swimming pool, do not hesitate to go and see on the post ”Detailed photos of gites before restoration“.

For us, the first step with a such project of the stone-buildings restoration to create gites was to “be” on the Internet in order to make our name. As we will not have concrete photos before the end of restoration site -for a high-performance website- we have been advised to comment the unfolding of this project on a blog. The result is here if you can read this post today… during the restoration works in Pouzauges, the website will be created and should appear around April 2008, date to be confirmed as well as the official opening of gites. A direct link will be available on this blog as soon as the website “Horizons vendéens” opens.

In the meantime, in order to make our name among the gites, we should obviously belong to tourism professionals and show our reliability and high quality for our gites: Read the rest of this entry »

After serveral years working in an export department, I wanted -during my maternity leave- to widen my professional horizon: a work « at home » -in order to be available for my children- by keeping a commercial link towards “outside”.

This idea to create a gite -holiday cottage- or B & B -Bed and Breakfast- has gained ground since April 2006. First, we should restore an old building on our private property; but for various reasons, this project ce projet has fallen through.
As I wished maintaining this welcome idea, our research was about a stone house/building -which arouses curiosity and because of personal taste and of an aesthetic character- in the du Puy du Fou “area”, in the country -to guarantee calm to visitors and to give a whole change of scene with an unusual panorama- but close to comfort for all needs -eating, health and activity…

We carried out this project in 2007 May in Pouzauges: Read the rest of this entry »