It was a little cloudy and overcast this morning but it eventually cleared away over the acres of this rolling site deep in the French Countryside.
The Chateau is owned by Stuart and Sheila Coe who purchased this property many years ago and have turned it into a fine place to visit and enjoy the quiet and the ever present sound of insects and other forms of wildlife. Up and till this year the site had been open to all ages, but after a particularly tough last year where they had some kids cause damage and upset to other residents they decided finally to make it an adults only site. However the word ‘adult’ in France,as according the French Law, means anybody over 14 and that was still too young a person that the hosts wanted. And so now it has been renamed as a Country Club for those over 18+ and this is exactly what they want.
The downside of this is that in Holland, the ‘Adults only’ badge tends to indicate a free sex club of sorts and so they are having difficulty getting the Dutch to book here but we believe that word will travel quite fast. But back to the site which has about 90 placements for caravans, motor homes and tents and about six very nice wooden chalets set in the wooded part of the site and four mobile homes which now look slightly out of place. The bar and restaurant are a very attractive area which overlooks the very large and mostly empty swimming pool which is in itself a great selling or marketing tool. Following the change to all adult they also have started investing in the site again with better site roads, planned changes to the chalets making them more suitable for adults viz no small children’s rooms and a nine-hole golf course planned to open next year. Noel has been asked by Stuart and Sheila to set up a BLOG, similar to this, so that they can communicate in a simple way with their customers to keep them informed of site developments rather than changing an expensive web site. Anyway back to us, late in the afternoon a jolly good swim in the pool prior to heading back for a shower and an excellent ham salad, with yet again some more wine. This really has to stop.
Later in the evening we decided to watch a DVD called ‘Up in the Air’ with George Clooney and although it is a brand new disc direct from Amazon and not even unwrapped there is something wrong with it and it would not start. Fearing that the DVD element in the TV had broken Noel grabbed the next nearest DVD to see if that worked but without looking at what it was. This DVD started fine and is called ‘Das Boot’ a German film made about the U-Boat crews in the Second World War where 40000 men signed up and only 10000 lived to tell the tale. However it was NOT noticed when placing this disc in the machine how long the film was. Anyway we started watching and enjoying the film and it went on and on and on and we looked at the clock and it was almost midnight and so we looked at the box cover and discovered that the film runs for 310 minutes, plus extra’s, and so we still had about another hour to go, so we stopped the film and went to bed. No doubt it will be part two tomorrow.
Finally a few more people have left the site today with the departures outweighing the new arrivals at this moment but as most arrivals are on late Sunday and Monday let’s see what happens
