16/08/18 – 18/08/18 – Chateau Bellevue, Saint-Avit
After just over three months in the Moho we were both starting to get cabin fever and as Lorraine still owed me a birthday treat, we decided that a couple of days break from our 13m2 home was in order.
We found Chateau Bellevue on bookings.com and it looked like the perfect place to enjoy doing not that much, lounge by the pool, spread out and enjoy a little bit of luxury.
I think the chateau was ran like a B&B as there were a couple of rooms upstairs for paying guests, a communal breakfast area and swimming pool that we could use, but there was also rooms labelled as private, so I assume these were for the owners only. We also had free roam of the grounds (Apart from the stables area) so had a good area to walk Marley.
Our room overlooked the front of the Chateau and felt huge (especially in comparison to the Moho) We had massive bed and sofa in front of a fireplace along with a bathtub – it’s the little things like having a bath that we missed so we had a long soak each on both nights.
Perhaps the most unusual thing in the room was the douche/bidet toilet…..Neither of us had used one before, it was definitely an experience!….. Sorry about the quality of the video , it was late and I was a little drunk 😉
There was a roof terrace to the back of the property, overlooking the grounds that we made full use of (I think we were allowed on there as no one told us otherwise.) After a couple of G&T’s, we polished off a bottle of wine out there, listened to some music before lying on our backs to watch the stars feeling somewhat tipsy.
We didn’t fully escape the Moho during our time there however, as the chateau was quite remote and too far away from any restaurants to walk plus they didn’t do any other meals than breakfast, we ended up going back to the barn where it was parked and cooking our meals in it. It must have looked quite odd had anyone seen us!
After a couple of days enjoying the pool, reading books, walking through woods and soaking for too long in the bath, we were feeling relaxed and refreshed and ready to take on the rest of our trip!
Thank you Lorraine XX
