Bed and breakfast in the Somme Bay

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  • Services available Your breakfast | Billiards room | Equiped kitchen | Lounges | Parking | Grounds | Other things to do | Evening meal | Bikes | Stables | Baby sitting
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Services and facilities

Your breakfast

Your breakfast Zoom

Your organic breakfast will be served around our large family dining room table in front of the fireplace for a convivial atmosphere.

As much tea, coffee and homemade hot chocolate as you like, with different homemade breads and brioche. For example you can discover green tea and date bread, or brioche with raisins, or chocolate with homemade jam made from local produce. Apricot, strawberry and blackberries from our fields, or apples from our orchards and farm butter.


Your breakfast

We will make your freshly pressed juices and there is a wide choice of cereals, yogurts and fromage blanc.

If you like we can cook you eggs and bacon or boiled egg and there is a cheese and ham platter.

Billiards room

Billiards room Zoom

You will have access to the billiards room where you can play snooker and pool. (adult must be responsible for their children).

It is possible for the table to be enlarged and used as a meeting room or for large family meals.

Fully equiped kitchen

Billiards room Zoom

You have access to a kitchen with fridge, a microwave, an oven and a hob sink. There is also a tea and coffee area that you can use when you come in from your outings. We have baby equipment: a high chair, 2 cots, a bouncy chair, bath seat and a baby carrier for your walks.

The lounges

The lounges Zoom
The lounges Zoom

A big lounge with TV and video, a bookcase, scrabble, cards chess and draughts.

Wifi connection is available on asking.


In the music room you will find lots of guides and information on things to do and see. Hélène is happy to help you with recommending excursions, restaurants etc.

Parking

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Shaded parking is available next to the chateau.

We also have a locked garage for your bikes and motorcycle.

The grounds

The grounds Zoom
The grounds Zoom
The grounds Zoom
The grounds Zoom

The chateau is surrounded by 5hectares of wooded parkland. Behind the house is a patio terrace where you can relax at the tables and chairs and on the sun loungers. There is also a barbeque area.

You can stroll in the park and admire the flower garden, walk around the fields, cross the wood and orchard, see the vegetable and kitchen garden and then watch the sun set behind the church tower.

Other things to do within the grounds

You can make use of the play area for the children, swings slides and playhouse in the wood.

You are free to stroke the horses and ponies (children are under the responsibility of their parents).

We can organize for you, by reservation, a pony ride for your children or for adults a horse ride.

Other things to do within the grounds Zoom
Other things to do within the grounds Zoom
Other things to do within the grounds Zoom
Other things to do within the grounds Zoom

If you bring you're own horse with you we can make available to you two riding arena. Available for use is a ping pong table, a badminton, pétanque and croquet set, table football and darts.

Thought the year we organize events for special occasions. At Easter an egg hunt, at Halloween a tea and at Christmas a treasure hunt.

Footpaths for jogging that run around the village and along the border of the forest are available near by all year round.

Services available at extra cost

Set evening meal

With 48hours notice we can organize an evening meal for you from local delicacies. For example :

Apéritif
Champagne or other pre dinner drink of your choice
Starter
Home made quiche or pizza, fish soup, seafood, or melon and porto
Main courses
Lamb, sole or turbot
Cheese and salad
Dessert
Moelleurx au chocolat chocolate sponge with a delicious runny centre served with cream custard or apple sponge where the apples are flambé in Calvados
Wins are selected to go with the food
White wine from Provence, Bordeaux, Bandol…

The stables

The stables

We welcome riders and their horses and can provide stables, paddock or stalling.

We can provide maps for walking and riding in the Somme estuary and Crécy forest. (More than 150km of circuits are available).

We can organize private lessons for you with a certified teacher.

You can also reserve tours on a horse drawn carriage near by.

Bike hire

We have nine mountain bikes available that can be matched to your needs.

Bike hire

We also have maps available for you to use for cycle routes that join up the forest, the Somme estuary and the Marquenterre beaches.

Baby sitting

Baby sitting

We can organize a baby sitter here for you at the house with 48-hour notice.

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