Horizons Vendeens

Yesterday, a representative of “Gîtes de France” from Vendée came and check the both gites and the interior pool in the Horizons vendéens in Pouzauges. The target of this “visit” was to control:

• the compliance of the gites, the pool and their environment with their quality criteria,
• the respect for the plans before works and now,
• the quality of materials chosen for the restoration,
• the quality of furniture and household appliances for the comfort of tourists.

The goal of this meeting was also to enter the gites and the interior pool for the quality label of ”Gîtes de France”. Papers will be sent soon and the contract with Gîtes de France will take effect straight away.

Yesterday, we received the 2 signs -1 for each gite- of the quality label logo

with the inscription to be put up underneath ”GITE RURAL”.

From the sigature of the contract, the gites from Horizons vendéens will appear on the website of the “Gîtes de France”.

After this visit for the entry for the quality label “Gîtes de France“, a second one will be scheduled in order to have the classification of each gite, with at least 3 earth of wheat…

Now with the quality label “Gîtes de France“, we should to make our website available soon…

Otherwise, for further details and bookings for your next holidays in our gites with interior pool, do not hesitate to contact us:

• by mail: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr
• by phone : 00 33 (0)6 23 00 13 67

In order to reassure the tourists-to-be -those who have already booked and those who have not ye in the gites of Horizons vendéens, I show you round rooms, which have been furnished this weekend in the gite “la Gentilhommière”.

When you come into the gite, hereafter the living room with

its ”dining room”

its “lounge”

As piece of information, the living room -including the dining room, the lounge and the quiet spot- is more than half of the gite.

Then, let us go to the bedrooms:

Bedroom with twin beds:

Bedroom with the king-size bed:

It remains furniture to put in the kitchen and photos of this room to take…

Lastly, the bedroom of the gite has been removed since the publication of  the post wall tiles on the gite 2, without the washing machine. But a photo with this machine is not really necessary.

For further details on the gites and the pool, do not hesitate to contact us:

• by mail: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr
• by phone : 00 33 (0)6 23 00 13 67

After having shown bedrooms in the gite 1, only with the bed in wrought iron, hereafter ca you find photos od beds made, made as when you come this summer for your holidays.

Bedroom 2 with the twin beds:

Bedroom 3 with its king size bed:

For the 1st bedroom, on the ground floor, it will be finished this weekend; indeed, craftspeole do not need to go there and this room does not use anymore as place for the furniture of the other rooms.

For any further details on the gites and the pool, do not hesitate to contact us:

• by mail: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr
• by phone : 00 33 (0)6 23 00 13 67

In the last post, we said that the gite has been almost ready for you, tourists. So after having stuck the wall tiles and made seals, we can show you now some photos from the bathroom. Toilets have the same wall tiles.

Let’s go and see in the Horizons vendéens inside this gite:

From the door towards the shower:

From the shower towards the 2 sinks:

From the 2 sinks towards the door:

If you need further detailsabout the gites and the pool, do not hesitate to contact us:

• by mail: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr

• by phone: 00 33 (0)6 23 00 13 67

After the connection of the gite with lelectricity, the insulation on the roof timber, insulation and covering with wood panelling was to be done in the ceiling of the living room of the gite “La Gentilhommière”.

Hereafter, you can see photos of the white ceiling:

In this gite, it remains to test the heating floor with the heat pump, to connect phone, to make beds, to furnish kitchen and living room and to take photos in order to encourage you to come and take holidays in our gites in Horizons vendéens.

For further details, do not hesitate to contact us:

• by mail: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr

• by phone: 00 33 (0)6 23 00 13 67

Let’s disclose the Horizons vendéens outside, just in front of the gites and the pool, just before sowing the lawn and preparing the parkings for cars -near the entry:

Photos are taken from the gite 2 -”la Gentilhommière”- towards pool, then towards and from the gite 1 -”l’Hosterie”-, the the entry of the area towards the gite 2.

For any further details about the gites and the pool, please let us know:

• by mail: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr

• by phone: 00 33 (0)6 23 00 13 67

After months of restoration for the gites and creation for the pool, we need to show you now any photos of the gites and the pool, letting you come and have some holidays in a quiet space in the gites in the “Horizons vendéens”. Even if the website has not been available yet, phone calls or mails have already confirmed us confirmation of tourists for this summer, and why not thinking of your visit in Pouzauges???

The pool -full of water- but without deckchair:
 

The pool with deckchairs for a whole rest:
 

If you want more details on the gites and the pool, let us know:

• by mail: contact@horizons-vendeens.fr

• by phone: 00 33 (0)6 23 00 13 67

In order to distinguish the gites in the Horizons vendéens, instead of saying gite 1 and gite 2, we had to customize them. Since the beginning of works, we have tried to find indications and details, which could have helped us to describe at best these 2 gites, a difficult step but an important one!

A lead was a book -that a friend of us helped us to find- “l’histoire des maisons nobles de Pouzauges“, -”History of the noble houses, located in Pouzauges- which was written by Yves Dopsent, according the archives of Clément Blandin. Although this book was very interesting, it describes Puy Papin – hamlet, where are located our gites- only for the listed edifice on the other side of the road; indeed, before the road has been created, our buildings used as outbuildings of this “Logis” from Puy Papin. Consequently, no well-known personality was able to live there, apart from servants working for the lords of the Castle, then of the “Logis du Puy Papin” and their animals, or at least no precise detail has been given for the “activity” and ”function” of these buildings, that will be our gites. So, these gites will not be named after their former owners.

As far the gite 1 is concerned, this stone building -which has been inhabited untill July 2007 and so  partially restored- gives us a feeling of place to swap and reception, and reminds us of an inn. With that in mind, the chosen name is l’hosterie, old French word, which is synonymous with inn.

For the gite 2, this stone building has been neglected for years and was more particularly in ruins, so it has a secret side, even mysterious one. It was mainly used as a shelter for animals, some call it a sheepfold and others call it stable… As this function has nothing to do with the one of the gites, and as we have restored it into a residential use with the charming old stones, the nam of this gite will be as follows la gentilhommière: this old French word describes a pleasant and charmingly converted cottage, located in the country.

 For further details about these gites-to-be -l’hosterie & la gentilhommière- and about the interior common pool, do not hesite to contact us:

• contact@horizons-vendeens.fr

• or by phone: 00 33 (6) 23 00 13 67