We've been brewing another idea generated by yet another friend. We're thinking of offering private week-long adventure packages for a single or a couple (or a few!) people who want to choose their week a la carte and employ D's services privately. There are several very nice hotels nearby where we could lodge folks who want a more luxurious stay.
Chateau de Lunac is one. Mme Revalor speaks 'un peu anglais' and she means it....she offers rooms with 'antics' on her website (!). There is a swimming pool and each room has a fireplace along with French 'antics'. Here's a new-ish hotel that we know nothing about yet, but which we'll investigate in September.
I can't wait to do our investigative visit to France and finally be able to put numbers to all of this. It's been a little frustrating to make an Excel sheet full of items with no numbers to plug in. It will be very satisfying to finally be able to tally everything up and see what a week's adventure will cost.
I was digging around online the other day and I found a similar business to ours in the next town over. They offer a food-based tour in a chateau hotel. The tours are midweek, for only 4 days and you have a chance to spend time with the chef in the kitchen and out at markets and vineyards. Included in their price is a rental car, which I think it a fabulous idea. We were a little uncertain about how we'd manage to pick everyone up each week. This solves that problem and gives our guests some flexibility to spend their evenings doing what they please; visiting local food or music festivals, dinner, a scenic drive.
We got our passports all sorted out yesterday. Baby P has the cutest picture for his and I got out the older boys' ones which are more than three years old. They've changed so much!
We're getting so excited about visiting Aveyron and Grandpa (or Grandpere as we're calling him these days!).
The MacCs
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