The views are spectacular and we are in wonderful isolation with few nearby neighbours. The buildings are all made of local stone and the walls are are a foot thick. There is a swimming pool, although it's much too cold to swim. The main house has a huge farmhouse style kitchen with a center piece of a massive wooden table and benches which would seat about 20 people! The lounge room has a lovely open fireplace, an eclectic mix of antiques from all over the world while gorgeous rugs cover the flagstone floor.
We are sleeping in the 2 bedroom self contained caretakers cottage. The previous caretakers did a runner stripping the cottage of all its furnishings including the cooker! So it it rather bare, although we have the basics, 2 new beds, a leather sofa and brand new satellite TV. It is because of the caretakers that we are here. The owner didn't want to leave the main house empty in case they returned, so he asked Peter to come and stay while they spent Christmas in their English mansion (formerly owned by ex Brit Prime minister Edward Heath)
Christmas lunch was a HUGE leg of Aussie lamb (half the price of French lamb) grilled in the oven, along with grilled Christmas cake. Yes, grilled, we discovered the oven doesn't work! The cake turned out a bit weird, but the lamb was fine (I covered it in foil) and the roast potatoes were very crispy!
For my birthday Alan took me to Spain for the day! We are so close tot the border here and there are no formalitites you just keep driving. The food and booze prices are much lower in Spain than France so there are miles of hypermarkets to service the coach loads of French visitors who flock there to save money.
Today all 3 of us are taking a drive down the coast. We only have a few days left before it's back to the boat for a few days before we fly off again to the UK.
Check out the location on our map. Mas Coq is pin pointed on our interactive map on the web site.
http://www.sunflowercruising.com/mapinter2010.html
Just move up to France and click on the top most blue thing and use the "more" to zoom in.
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