From our guide to French Bed & Breakfast
Coming in from the magnificent gardens, you catch a wonderful smell of herbs as you walk through the house. The charming owners, educated and well-travelled, moved here from east France...
Passionate eager hosts, a refined old manor in an idyllic setting, magnificent rooms, meals cooked by a master (in winter they run an Alpine restaurant). Abel and Anna's restoration is caring and sophisticated...
It is easy to be beguiled into inspecting places that look good but feel, upon inspection, less so. Separating the marvellous from the merely good is a daunting task. We have to be fully attuned to the nuances, the subtleties of human behaviour. We have, in short, to stick to our guns and only select the places that we feel really are special. We have to weed out the houses that are fraying at the edges just that bit too much, the owners who think of themselves first and foremost as businesspeople rather than B&B owners.
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