Les Mimosas
A Quiet Single-Storey Cottage with Enclosed Garden
Les Mimosas (next to Les Pommiers with entirely separate garden), is a traditional French detached single-storey stone cottage with walled, south-facing garden in the traditional seaside village of St Georges de la Riviere. Situated in the rue Bonvalet, opposite a petit manoir and within a cluster of pretty stone houses, the cottage is single-storey only with French doors opening directly onto the sheltered garden with roses and honeysuckle lining the old walls.
With one good-sized bedroom and a sofa-bed in the living-room, it is an ideal holiday cottage for one or two people or a small family with a baby and/or toddlers, as the lawned garden is enclosed and there are no stairs within the cottage. The unspoilt beach with its well-known beautiful stretches of sand and dunes is only a twenty minute walk or five minute drive. Possibility of bringing your pet – please enquire.
Accommodation
- Bedrooms - Bedroom 1 with king-size bed or separated into twin beds. Also cot and single folding bed available. Double sofa-bed in sitting room.
- Bathrooms - Shower room with washbasin and bidet. Separate wc.
- Kitchen - Electric cooker, washing machine, microwave, fridge-freezer.
- Utility room - Clothes airer, high chair, baby bath and changing table.
- Living area - Two sofas, screen for DVD player (No television reception), CD player.
- Garage - Secure garage large enough for car/small boat/storage of bicycles etc.
- Cleaning/towels/Linen/maid service - Linen and towels are not supplied. These may however be hired if requested (bedlinen/kitchen linen @ €10 per person/ towels @ €5 per person). The property is cleaned before each booking.
Notes on accommodation
Les Mimosas is single storey only. It is ideal for two people or a family with a baby and/or toddlers, as the lawned garden is enclosed and there are no stairs within the property.
suitable for people with reduced mobility - hand rails are provided in both shower room and wc.
However only the sitting room is wheelchair accessible. Access is not possible to the other rooms by wheelchair as the doorways are too narrow.
There is a lawned south-facing enclosed garden, accessed by double French doors from sitting room. Garden loungers are available plus BBQ, table and chairs for outside dining.
If two families or friends are staying in both Les Mimosas and les Pommiers, they may be linked by an internal garden gate (safe from road) - ideal for a young family and grandparents.
Special interest holidays
Les Mimosas is ideally situated for cyclists or walkers. A myriad of flat tiny lanes connect the coastal villages to beaches. The undulating bocage is around half an hour by bicycle inland from the coast: a network of high hedged quiet roads and bridleways criss-cross the peninsula. A "Train Touristique" runs from 7th July to 27 August on Tuesdays and Thursday between St Georges and market towns Portbail and Barneville-Carteret. The Marais region, around half an hour away by car, is a large area of protected marshland with an abundance of waterfowl and bankside mammals. Canoes may be hired at St Sauveur le Vicomte and guided boat trips are available with stops at both a restaurant and a café A treetop adventure trail is available at St Sauveur le Vicomte.
Distances
The sailing resorts of Portbail and Barneville-Carteret are both 10 minutes drive from the gite.
Further details
The village has an epicerie for general groceries and adjoining bar with open log-fire on cooler days. The market towns of Portbail and Barneville Carteret are both within a five minute drive (15 minutes by bicycle). Both towns have sailing schools that also offer sand-yachting and boats and yachts for hire. The neighbouring village to St Georges, St Jean de la Riviere, has a nine hole golf course and riding school. In the summer season there are usually day trips available to the Channel Islands - from either Portbail or Barneville-Carteret.
Guest comments
'Absolutely loved it. Perfect setting, very comfortable, easy to feel at home. Perfect' - Mr and Mrs J, Bonn
'Our 3 year-old daughter thought this was the most beautiful house that she had seen!' - The V H Family E. Sussex
'A lovely cottage, splendid countryside, dunes and sea. - David & Susan B, Wolverhampton
'A very charming cottage with oodles of character! We thoroughly enjoyed our week. Very relaxing and we'll definitely return' - The H family, Tipperary, Ireland.