| If you're planning on France holidays this | | | | contained holiday accommodation ensures total |
| Christmas season, you might want to stay at | | | | privacy in luxurious surroundings with quality |
| French gites for a change. A gite is a holiday | | | | furnishing and fittings. |
| home that is rent out fully furnished by the | | | | Rural French Gites |
| owners. These furnished holiday lettings are | | | | When exploring Normandy, you may want to rest |
| self-catering and of a fairly high standard. Spread | | | | in picturesque villages that dot the landscape of |
| all over France, French gites are ideal for | | | | rural France. French gites are common in these |
| accommodating the whole family. | | | | quaint hamlets inhabited by warm, generous and |
| General Features of Gites | | | | hospitable folk. You can forget the hustle and |
| French gites provide more than adequate lodgings | | | | bustle of your busy cosmopolitan life when you're |
| during your France holidays. Although usually | | | | immersed in quiet France holidays amidst tranquil |
| converted cottages once used by farm workers, | | | | surroundings. Admire the lush, green valleys which |
| gites contain all the necessary modern | | | | are home to sturdy traditional Norman cottages |
| conveniences to make a memorable stay. The | | | | standing secure with heavy timber. |
| owners reside close to the gites to provide you | | | | One such quiet village is Lonlay L'Abbaye. It |
| with a warm welcome and offer any necessary | | | | derives its name from the local Abbey, built in the |
| assistance during your stay. Typical French gites | | | | 11th century by then Lord of Domfort, Count |
| would boast en-suite bathrooms, TV and DVD as | | | | Belleme. This focal point of spirituality and |
| well as a fully equipped kitchen. Some may have | | | | reverence was home to the Benedictine monastic |
| adjacent swimming pools and access to outdoor | | | | order known today as the St Benoit-sur-Loire. |
| recreational activities. French gites these days | | | | Now the parish church, the Lonlay Abbey has |
| encompass holiday apartments, cottages and flats. | | | | withstood numerous challenges to its structure |
| Gites in Normandy | | | | and existence over its nearly one thousand years |
| One of the premier destinations of anyone who's | | | | of existence. |
| considering France holidays is the beautiful region | | | | As you soak in the atmosphere of your France |
| of Normandy with its long coastline and | | | | holidays, repose at one of the luxury gites in |
| spectacular countryside. If that's where you're | | | | Normandy situated just walking distance from |
| headed then you'll be thrilled to find that gites in | | | | Lonlay L'Abbaye, Le Manoir Nezement. Set smack |
| Normandy make for excellent accommodation | | | | in the middle of 10 acres of breathtaking |
| especially in the lush interior. You can choose to | | | | countryside, the luxury gite rural in this 18th |
| stay in one of several different class of French | | | | century English owned manor house has a fully |
| gites, namely gite rural - an independent holiday | | | | equipped kitchen, comfortable bedrooms and free |
| home situated in the countryside, up in the | | | | wifi broadband access for you to stay in touch |
| mountains or even by the sea shore. The self | | | | with friends. |