La Magnanerie

Au calme et proche de tout

Going back to Saint Siffret again next month for what must be our fifth or sixth year!!! For those who want perfect peace and tranquillity and wonderful hosts in a beautiful little getaway Provencal village this must be the ultimate experience. My wife and I always take the ground-floor gite La Cigale - a large, spacious, well appointed room with a wonderful 'cave' shower room built out of the local limestone bedrock !!!Everything is always so clean and Pascale may even fetch your croissants from the small village supermarket even before you get up in the morning!!!||The pool and its surrounds are absolutely idyllic and so tastefully laid out and are expertly tended by Ton on a daily basis. It is wonderful just to relax there and great for morning breakfast or an evening meal or drinks. Pascale and Ton are so warm, kind and really helpful with advice on anything you might want to know from the local area. St. Siffret sits on the edge of the hill and is one of the prettiest old medieval villages of the area with some wonderful architecture around its labyrinth of narrow streets. It has one restaurant - good, but a bit pricey - occupying the site of the former schoolhouse. The upper part of the village on the plateau is now fast becoming a residential area for people who may work in Uzes or even beyond. Uzes itself - the first duchy of France - is a great experience only some three miles away. Go on a Saturday morning - the market is renowned and the ducal palace and several churches are well worth a visit.||There is so much of value in the wider area also - the tremendous UNESCO Pont du Gard site (only a few miles away), Nimes (the huge Roman arena), Avignon and Villeneuve (with the reminders of the Popes of the Middle Ages), while the sites of Arles, Saint Remy and even the Camargue delta and beaches are all within reach.||Pascale and Ton are fantastic. They will always be there if and when you may need them, but they will never be intrusive. Thanks for wonderful holidays - a little bit of heaven deep in the Gard.

Nous avons été charmé par ce bel endroit. Chambre au calme avec une vue magnifique sur la rivière. Seul le bruit de l'eau et des oiseaux viennent perturber de façon très agréable le silence. La chambre est correct. Propre, avec une salle de bain en hauteur très jolie.||Le petit déjeuner est très plaisant, l'été ce doit être encore mieux au bord de la piscine.||L'accueil fût parfait et les visites très bien conseillées.||Nous reviendrons certainement.

Fabulous base to just relax or to use as a base to explore the area.||||Les and Judy always willing to help and in several languages.||||Breakfast by the pool is a must.||||I know several other people who have been there and were equally impressed.

This year will be our fifth (or sixth) visit to La Magnanerie. This sentence alone says it all; once you have found perfection you keep going back as often as you can, The place was set up on simple principles by Les and Judy who wanted a place in France that provided all the comforts of home and Pascale and Ton have continued this and developed it. So the beds are comfortable, the showers hot and roomy, the rooms always spotless and the welcome friendly, helpful and unobtrusive. Breakfasts are superb (don't expect bacon and beans!) The pool is shallow but always quiet and sunny (and meticulously clean) The setting of St Siffret is exactly right for a huge range of visits - we have always found new things to do and see. Ton and Pascale are an amazing source for suggestions. Wine lovers will be in paradise with a very acceptable vigneron down either side of the hill and name vineyards within easy reach.