La Maison du Bouchonnier

Mezin is located in the Lot-et-Garonne but also borders the Gers and the Landes. There are plenty of walking routes, around the town there is a walking route starting from the front door. In the documentation cabinet there is a folder with printed walking routes, but there are also QR codes for those who find it more convenient. Such a printed walking route can be taken out of the folder to take with you on a route and after returning home, if any have been lost, please report them so that I can replace them via the rando site. Mezin has an outdoor swimming pool, with a shady sunbathing area and a lifeguard. A paddling pool is also included. The opening time from Tuesday to Sunday from 2 to 8 pm. Next to the swimming pool is a freely accessible fenced playground for the little ones. There is a Petanque club (jeu de boules) in Mezin that you can join, but that is not mandatory for a game of jeu de boules, there are 2 sets in the gite. Canoeing is also possible in Mézin and Lavardac. Nerac at 12 km has a swimming amusement park: Ludopark with slides. In Gondrin (20 km) there is a water park called a base de loisir as it is called here. Condom also has a large swimming pool and a Lake/Lac as well as Cazaubon with its lac Uby. In Poudenas (5 km) and Lavardac (15 km) there is a riding school that of Barbaste also has International competition. Barbaste (15km) has an 18 hole golf course as well as Casteljaloux (30km) where there are also the thermal baths / spa / swimming pool and a large lake the Lac de Clarens with a water park, Aquapark, Damazan has the Lac du Moulineau with activities such as wakeboard. Lamontjoie a Lac with water skiing and other activities. In Roquefort, 30 km from Mezin, the amusement park Walibi, there is also an Aquapark with the largest toboggan in Europe. Cauderoue(7km) Cap Cauderoue Acrobatic forest tour, Acrobranches for children from 3 years to 99 years in 6 ha of forest. A boat trip can be made on the river that flows through Nerac, but also through Condom in both places. In the center of Nérac along the river is a good ice cream parlor and a cozy terrace. Henry IV's castle in Nerac can be visited. A walk through the parc La Garenne dating from the time of Henri IV is also worthwhile, possibly with the aim of a consumption in the Chalet at the end of the parc, a walk of 2 km I estimate. We also have thermal stations 30 km from the house where it is also possible to swim, relax, sauna or massage. Mezin has a beauty salon and hairdressers if you like something like that I can schedule an appointment. In the region there are lakes for natural swimming at 30 km from the house. The above is just a small sample of what there is to experience and do, there is also much to see and taste in Mezin and the surrounding area, there is so much to do that even 2 weeks leaves room for a next time. Usually the first trip of my guests is on Sunday afternoon to the beautiful village of Fources, 5 km from Mézin, where there is always something to do and in any case visit and taste because it is very beautiful and typical and there are 2 restaurants. The house has a documentation cabinet with folders by theme, there is so much to do, to see, to experience, to taste. Sunday morning is the market in Mézin and I take advantage of that to keep the Office de tourisme open and to make suggestions and provide documentation to the tourists. The office is between the 2 cafes with terrace.

Mézin The town lies in the vineyards of the Coteaux du Mezinais (Côtes de Gascogne) and Armagnac. Mézin also has a "cave" where the local wine, Armagnac and Floc du Ténarèze sold worden.De cave also sells to local producers, asparagus, strawberries, kiwi, melons delightful as the harvest time. Many wine chateaux are open for visits and tests and I now have some good addresses collected. 100m around the corner from La Maison du bouchonnier is the restaurant "Le Relais de Gascogne" where at noon daily menu with wine for only 11 Euros served on the terrace or in the cozy living room-like restaurant. In the periphery restaurants I know I can beat you because I like to try it myself first before I recommend them to my guests. In the marketplace are 2 cafe-restaurants / Pizeria also offer WiFi on their terrace so you can check your mails. Cafe du Commerce also organizes concerts of which some artists with a certain reputation. In the town there are 2 restaurants. The shops and 4bakkers, 2slagers a caterer / charcutier for takeaway, the pharmacy are also open on Sunday morning that is also the market day that all the atmosphere already worth is.Maandags there is a chance that shops are closed but a baker and 1 of 2 caterers / charcutiers are also open on Monday morning, the pharmacy is 6.5 / 7 days open. In Mézin there are doctors, nurses, a dentist, shoe repair, laundry and newsstand. In Nerac is also on Sunday the supermarket Carrefour open market and Leader Price. The larger super-marchés Intermarché and Super U are open Monday to Saturday, respectively in Nerac and Lavardac. In Nerac is a big market day on Saturday.

Mézin is one of the routes to St Jacques de Compostella, limit of the Lot et Garonne, Gers south / south-east to the hills of Armagnac and the forests of the Landes to the west / north-west. The area is also called the Tuscany of France and is popular with artists. The summers are sunny. September, October and even November with beautiful fall colors we enjoy a wonderful Indian summer we Ete If the call even in december there is much chance of a mild climate. Real winter is usually in January and February. Ask for a longer stay from september to the special rate. The house has central heating and a fireplace. After mid novembre there are festivities for example La Flamme d'Armagnac, then the flame at the Armagnac-firing created that is celebrated with a meal and be treated to warm Armagnac. In this gastronomic area, there is always an excuse to celebrate! The mushrooms, foie gras, confit Les, with the wine of the vintage les Coteaux du Mezinais, as le Buzet.De region has a great cultural wealth. The house lends itself as a starting tour for interesting day trips such as to Lourdes, Pau, the Atlantic coast or Bordeaux, Toulouse, Bergerac or interesting trips near home.

Mézin in Autumn Winter and spring and enjoy for a very reasonable low rate of tranquility, the beautiful surroundings of the beautiful autumn's rich history, read a book by the fireplace or still on the terrace and garden. Enjoying wine and Armagnac with many castles or domains can be tasted and / or for purchase. Gastronomy in the local restaurants or in the area with their three-course lunchtime menu at 11Euro maxi or the good tables in the vicinity such as Condom a star Michelin restaurant "La Table des Cordeliers" in a 13th century chapel, enjoy a gourmet meal between 30 and 60 Euro. The beautiful towns and villages view including Nerac city of "our good king Henri" The gallant king, everywhere are his "chevauchees" the roads on horseback giving testimony indicated along the lovely roads, it was also his idea that every Frenchman chicken would eat on Sunday, one of the favorite recipes here is therefore façon La poule au pot Henri IV. The atelier du Pastel in Lectoure is also worth visiting, not to mention the cork museum Mézin. The holiday is not called "La Maison du bouchonnier" it was the former residence of the cork manufacturer. Nearby is also the collegiate La Romieu which was classified by UNESCO in 1998. There is so much to see and view the beautiful Bastide towns and too many to mention you run out of time and I will be happy to provide tips, the house you will find plenty of documentation of what the region has to offer to enjoy . Nearby and further away to beautiful long or short hikes and walks are made, Mézin lies on the route of St. Jacques de Compostella (Vézelay route). The trails are marked so that it also on your own easy to follow the routes can I print or they can be stored on the GPS or you come along as LAUNCHES my walking club. Mézin halfway between Bordeaux and Toulouse in clear weather on the horizon to see the Pyrenees. I can, if you prefer, with great pleasure be your guide for an unforgettable stay at "La maison du bouchonnier!

In Mézin Sunday Market is only for the atmosphere is worth it. The southern French markets are particularly colorful and unique atmosphere, every day of the week is near a market in Nerac as Saturdays. Thursdays in Lavardac. Wednesday evenings in Sos (10km) a very pleasant night market where local produce to purchase the long tables in the marketplace can be eaten. Nerac has Tuesday summer evening market which brings a pleasant crowd, the restaurants do also participate in that by long tables set up outside and the food and drink stalls in the old town. There are also several pic-nics as organized in July at the Chateau de lagrangerie in Lannes, each year this is an enjoyable, tasty and cosmopolitan event.

The region has a rich history and many historic buildings. There are concerts. Sos has an art market that is crowded and where Dutch artists present. In Mézin there is a Jazz cafe which organizes weekly concerts. Mézin has a theater and also in the Romanesque / Gothic church concerts. Jazz in Marciac and the event is held each year more successful for some examples. Fources, the only round bastide of Gascony is 5km from Mézin, the inn offers a delicious meal on the terrace or inside for 13Euro menu du jour with wine included. Fources is organizing an evening eetevenement and a brocanteur all days of the week open. Nearby, the medieval Larresingle is worth visiting and has a park that the defense of a castle fortress demonstrates. Montréal du Gers is a charming bastide 10km from Mézin. The wine chateaux and wineries often have a tasting and sales at home. A summer holiday is not enough to everything to see and do what the region has to offer except its wonderful climate that invites to relax under the linden tree to rest or to read!

An introduction to the land of D'Artagnan and the holiday Armagnac.Mezin La Maison du Bouchonnier as a starting point, there is an Ipod with walk through Mézin be collected at the Office du tourisme.Mezin is a stop on the pilgrimage to St Jacques de Compostella so it is lovely to walk. The Roman Church, and the cork museum that gives you the 19th and 20th century history of Mézin illustrate are worth a visit as well as the restored train for a nice trip to Nerac, Nerac as when located 12 km from Mézin and is a city with a whole day seizure can nemen.Mezin also has a nice & cozy theater where performances are given and concerts. The church has a very special organ and also there are concerts and summer for a week the academy des jeunes soloists led by Christophe Boulier to beluisteren.Het café du commerce organizes a jazz every weekend evening. The summer festivals are also very attractive and cozy as in the whole region there is always something to do whether or not Mézin zelf.Fourcès: 5km from Mézin and you are now in the Gers. Via a bridge over the Auzoue next to the castle of the 15th and 16th centuries we achieve this by the British-built 13th century "Bastide". It is the only bastide of Gascony on a circular plan, the center around a large shady square gives the village a charming effect. In the half-timbered houses and art galleries, artisans welcome visitors. L'Auberge de Fourcès is a restaurant where you at a fair price, a good meal served. A week-end in May, a now very famous Flower Market held. There is also a regular antiques market, le marche des Antiquaires, held by professionals in order to distinguish between the vide grenier and brocantes.Er is a beautiful hike with Fources as departure and return punt.Gallo-Roman village of Seviac On this site For over a century archaeological excavations. The foundations of a Gallo luxurious Roman villa from the 4th century, as to light and subsequent early Christian and Merovingian traces, which indicate a permanent population of the 2nd to 7th century. (Business is not free) A walking route will also langs.Montreal is one of the oldest (1256) "Fortified" of France in Gascony and was built above the valley of the Auzoue. The river l'Auzoue has its source in the Gers and joins in with the Gélise Mézin. The village was damaged during the religious wars, but can still be proud of a fortified Gothic church and a market square surrounded by houses with arcades. In one of the houses you will find a small museum to visit is via the Tourist Office. In Montreal there is a good retaurant for a meal at fair prijs.Larresingle This is a fortified village of the 13th century. It was and is on private initiatif restored and rehabilitated by a foundation, the residents are proud of the smallest denomination fortified city of France. We find beautifully restored houses which sold crafts and get a pancake serving delicious French pancakes served. In one part of the house is a museum that illustrates vakmans life in the Middle Ages. Outside the ramparts of the town is the park of the medieval gardens of a siege camp of the 13th century nagebouwd.Condom also called Condom-en-Armagnac, the capital of the Armagnac is located in a region filled with Romanesque churches and country houses with vineyards for wine and Armagnac, many plum trees for the famous pruneaux d'Agen, and is surrounded by the typical for this region as "bastide" villages with ancient geometric ground plan from the time of the English invasions. Along the Tarn and Garonne you will find about 300 bastides. Condom and Nerac is situated on the River Baise where trips can be made on a canal boat. It is the capital of the Ténarèze this area is so called because of a Roman road that also leads to Mézin. In earlier times, the Armagnac over the Baïse transported to Bordeaux. Condom was a major staging point on the pilgrimage route of St Jacques de Compostella. THERE are plenty of historical buildings to visit a separate trip to Condom plan that is 15km from Mézin and as the name might expect there is a Musée du preservative (condom museum). In the city center (about 7000 inhabitants) are cozy terraces and beautiful boutiques. Famous events: international plan on the 2nd weekend in May, "the Bandas y Peñas" Bandas festival.En the Tournoi d'echecs, Chess tournament in juli.Salon des Antiquaires the last weekend of Februari.De famous movie "Le bonheur est dans le pre "Etienne Chatliez was partially included in Condom and Vic-Fezensac.Condom even has a star restaurant but also known as casual restaurants throughout the region. Vic-Fezensac summer, imagine you are in Spain and bustles of life during Vic-Fezensac markets, village festivals and the Tempo Latino festival that takes place in the last days of July. The arena is also well known and there are still bullfights and corridas held as in Eauze and Gabaret that 30km of Mézin lie. Lavardens This picturesque medieval village lies at the foot of the castle next to the clock tower of the church. The route winds through the hills and is wonderful not only because of the sunflower fields that are so characteristic in the summers of Gascony. of sunflowers, the huile de tournesol made or zonnebloemolie.De old tobacco barns where tobacco leaves were dried earlier are typical in the countryside and the beautiful avondluchten.Auch The historic capital of Gascony, the city of Artagnan.Van which side it is also we see the cathedral and the monumental staircase and the tower of Armagnac. The city extends along both banks of the River Gers. Is about 70km from Mézin. Nerac is 12 km from Agen Mézin direction. It is the city of Henri IV "Le bon roi Henri" and Queen Margot. Part of his castle is still there and the monumental staircase leads to the Baise where a boat can be made at the Henri IV a "Gabare" a typical boat that was used to fly cargo to Bordeaux. Along the Baise is the beautiful park "La Garenne" where summer musical also be given in the open air theater de verdure or something deeper in the park stands the chalet where the salon is a daytime and evening restaurant. It is a very nice walking park and summer are also flea markets and vide grenier held as throughout the summer streek.Nerac is a vibrant city, in the old city "Le vieux Nerac" are dinners, night markets, music and other activities georganiseerd.Sinds 2009, a Ludo Park a water park for young and old.

By car the A20 (without Péage from Vierzon to Cahors) Vierzon then A62 direction Bordeaux Montauban to Agen exit, from there down pat Nerac 656 (+ /-25km) and 12km further than Mézin Or A20 to Cahors and + / - departmental road 140km through Agen Mezin.Andere ability to autoroute A10 then the A62 to Bordeaux to Toulouse via exit 6 Aiguillon Lavardac to Mézin. Airfare and rental car is also an option. For example, Toulouse or Bordeaux airports near the highway, not just Ryanair or Transavia but Air France-KLM cheap flights. Bergerac with Ryanair or Transavia then a rental car. All airports are located 140km from Mézin. Pick up fee is possible but you have no transport Mézin unless rent a car.

Mézin boasts some of the routes to St Jacques de Compostella (still 1058km away) it's very interesting documents (messages) of this route to walk. Wednesdays you can join the walking club of Mézin which leaves from the Tourist Office or you can accompany me, Mondays & Wednesdays, to my club "tourism Pédestre du Neracais and thus the beautiful surroundings of the Lot-et-Garonne , do our neighboring area the Gers, with its sloping varied landscape is not too heavy as drafts. In the cottage lying in the further documentation, printed circuits. Because the rando circuits generally well maintained, you can use the cards they walk without assistance. The circuits vary tusse 5 and 20km or more. Gers department has issued a hiking book that also in the Cottage on the documentation to find.

For those of lazing in the garden and watching the immediate vicinity and Mézin enough!
The location of Mézin the limit of the Aquitaine and Midi-Pyrenees ensure that the Atlantic coast and the Pyrenees are eligible for a day as to Pau or Lourdes and Gavarnie or Biaritz and La Dune de Pilat and the Bay of Arcachon. Bordeaux is on the list of UNESCO and Toulouse in one day to visit. All these places are around 135 - 150km but via departmental roads, so on average 2 hours by car.

15 km from Mézin is an 18 hole golf course. On weekdays you can play golf for € 30 and € 35 for the week end. It's a nice job not yet visited pressure.

A holiday in Mézin is enjoying the rest, relax with a book or one of the many DVDs that are ready at la maison du Bouchonnier. The town lies in the woods and hills on the limit of the Lot-et-Garonne and the Gers, in the vineyards of Armagnac de la Ténarèze, Côtes de Gascogne and Buzet wines. The domains can taste wine in a relaxed atmosphere. As of October is harvest time, and in November the flame under the Alambiques is created for Armagnac the firing. The restaurants such as the fully renovated 7 Princes in Mézin serve at a fair price, delicious menus, à la carte or the products featuring the cuisine of this region. To the local shops, bakery, butcher, vegetables and fruits, cheeses and delicacies for a cozy meal in your French home. In the guest book you can read that previous guests who appreciated the sense of home in a typical house in an authentique region. There may be that walks you through the vineyards and buildings perform testifying to the rich history of this region still authentique. Mézin was and will again place a stop on the pilgrim route to St Jacques de Compostella. Printed walking, cycling and car trips are ready for you in the cottage. If you have a dog that is welcome and will enjoy nice walks. The garden of the house is completely fenced. If you want to bring your bikes then also shelter for them. There are planar circuits such as those along the Canal Lateral a la Garonne Mézin close to Agen and his beautiful Pont Canal. You touch here in southwest France never uitgekeken.In the period between 11 October and 20 December you can rent a week but there is also a special monthly price for 2 people.

The house is within walking distance from the baker, the butcher, delicatessen and prepared meals (charcutier - caterer) Fruit and vegetable shop, Petit Casino - shop, restaurants dagmenus inl. wine, € 15 (2) and Bistros (1). GP, Pharmacy. Bank Machines, post office. Public swimming pool, fishing lake, tennis court (2). Riding 5 km, Golf course at 17 km. Town (Nerac) with restaurants and supermarkets within 12 km. Large Supermarket at 15 km. Fourcés 6 km with a Brocante shop, shops a tea room, a restaurant, wine - Armagnac farmer, the boutiques are also open on Sunday afternoon. Reopening in March 2015 of the tourist train route from station to station Mézin Nerac.

Within walking distance you will find food shops: grocery, bakery, butchers, delicatessen, caterer. Pharmacy, tobacco and newsagent. Cafe with terrace on the market, Kebab. Sunday and Thursday morning market. Evening food market in the summer months.