Large Vaucluse Farmhouse with Garden In Luberon, Provence, France Reviews

Our favorite place in France

We've stayed twice at this wonderful farmhouse -- once for four weeks, once for three -- and found it to be a perfect getaway from our busy lives. (I'm a writer, my wife is in marketing). The house is comfortable, simple, beautifully situated and very romantic -- like stepping back into a time when Provence wasn't all about tourists. Surrounded on one side by lovely woods, on another by vineyard, it features a magnificent separate studio above the arched entrance (which i used for writing but is a perfect and very large bedroom and sitting room with its own bath) and a two bedroom main house with a large, comfy living room and delightful kitchen that opens onto the courtyard. (The master bedroom is huge, too). Cherries in season in the yard, figs down the road. We love the town of Gault, a less than ten minute drive -- small enough to get to know the people, but with several amazing restaurants and excellent bakery, butchers, grocers etc. Also Coustellet, a much larger town, but wonderful, and ten minutes in another direction -our favorite farmer's markets is held there. The fortress town of Gordes is also very close --great restaurants and shops there too. Actually you're close to everything -- and yet so very far away. And the owner's Judith in Paris and Michael in New York are lovely, generous and responsive. This is an old-world house with modern comforts -- not a McMansion-- and just thinking about our time there makes me yearn to go back.