We had a wonderful time at Le Sautaire. The weather was pretty near perfect

Le Sautaire is the best property we have ever rented (and we have rented 10 in either SW or S France over the past 19 years). The house itself is lovely, full of character and spacious enough for all 8 of us never to feel cramped. Not that we spent much time in the house. The gardens are beautiful and the views to south, west and north spectacular. There were plenty of places to sit in either full sun or shade and also places to eat. The pool is huge and we had such fun with our 26 year old ‘kids’ recreating all the silly games they used to play when children.

We loved the area too, although we were far too busy relaxing or playing around the pool to go out that much. Walking to Grambois early in the morning for bread and croissants and joining the old men in Café Dol for a coffee before returning was a delight. Grambois is such a sleepy little place. We also joined the locals for a pizza in Café Dol on the middle Sunday evening, eating huge ‘sharing’ pizzas with our fingers. The lady at La Fontaine in St Martin de la Brasque was so helpful we had dinner there twice. We liked St Martin de la Brasque simply because it is so unassuming. We thoroughly recommend a visit to the local cave, Les Coteaux de Grambois where the ladies were helpful and ‘le vin en vrac’ perfectly drinkable and just around E2.00 per litre. Despite being very lazy for all of the two weeks we did get to visit Aix-en-Provence which we liked but which was too busy and hot to spend too long there. Apt market was great and not to be missed as much because the drive there is across such beautiful country. We also went to the smaller markets at Cadenet and Tours d’Aigues; just such fun to sit with coffee or beer watching everyone after walking around. We liked Cucuron very much; agree with your comment that Lourmarin is spoiled (although Anne did like some of the products in the little shops) and wished we had had an additional week to get to visit more places.

So thank you Jenny and Brian. We had a great time and loved every moment of it.