The place is even more quiet and romantic, than it looks on the pictures. We spent more evenings on our roomy terrace, than we initially intended. Sitting there on spacy grounds in a rural idyll, looking at an old oak-tree, which seemed to be composed by a painter beside an old, normannic farm-house, was simply too beautiful. At the same time, it was easy to walk to the village in about 1,5km distance. The village is small, but nice and well maintained. In the one and only restaurant, you can eat meals from Pizza to french meals for decent prices, with a nice view on the old church.
We where also happy with our choice of location, because it is in a good strategic position to reach a lot of interesting places on the coast as well as inland easily (f.e. about 22km to Deauville and other interesting places on the coast). It does'nt even take long to some highways, that take you to more distant destinations of interest, if you like. We don't know why, but there was often no Maut at all, or a a very low one of 2 or 3 Euros. The region Calvados has a lot of beautiful gardens, castles, ruins, villages with nice markets (brocante as well as other things). Other places of history as the landing beaches, a lot of museums etc. are also easy to reach.
Our conclusion: The Pays d'Auge is a very nice and interesting region. And every day we happily looked forward, to return to our charming barn, which was well equipped with everything you need. Our very nice and friendly landlady Brigitte was always at hand, when we had a question and took care, that also the kitchen had everything in place, so that we could cook as if we where at home. And so we felt. Thank you Brigitte.
