Blaye

We were really taken with Blaye.  It is a pretty town on the banks of the Gironde estuary, just across from the Medoc wine region.  All the people we met there were very friendly, and there did not seem to be any English people there at all - which is a good thing!

The house we fell in love with there had really large grounds lawns sweeping down to woodland with a stream.  Some work was needed on the house, but it had plenty of charm, including a separate room with en-suite, which you could only get to by putting up some external stairs.  If we had gone with this, we would have needed to build the pool - not a problem given the space available.