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VERNET
Guestrooms & Bed and Breakfast |
Guestrooms
at the farm, "à la ferme" in
caracteristic cevenol stonebuilt farmhouse. 5 rooms for a
maximum of 15 people.
Large livingroom, salon, two shaded outside teraces
with garden furniture. Parking.
IEach room is equipped with a bathroom and a WC. At
the ground floor, a great stay. Terrace with furniture of
garden - Central heating.
Opened
from March 1 to November 15
Meals
Specialties with raspberries, lamb, kitchen garden vegetable,
chestnuts….
meal 18 €
Reservation compulsory
Prices
Minimum 1 person 40 € , 2 persons 50 €,
3 persons 66€,
additional guest 16 €,
Half
board in double room 43 €
Products
from the farm
Ovine agriculture, donkeys, horses, fruits and vegetable,
confitures ans syrops, chestnuts
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In the
heart of Cevennes National Park, halfway between
Saint Germain de Calberte and Col de Jalcreste, a little
road of 3,3 kms. leads you to Vernet, a small hamlet named
after alders (vernes) which still grow in the neighbourhood ever
since…
You will discover a different life, where everything tells
the story of the Cevennes People and their efforts to leave
in those mountains, resisting to the constraints and
struggling to think freely.
The mountain is beautiful, colorful, simple and quiet, and
the altitude Mediterranean climate is very nice (620 meters
high).
Sabine and Gerard welcome you in this
massive natural stone walls and fascinating roofs of
slate stone hamlet. They take time to discuss with their
guest, tell them about their life in Cevennes, and exchange
views.
In this amazing region, rich of history,
theatre of the Camisards during the religious wars, they
took the continuation of the former Cevennes families which
formerly populated this valley, rebuilt the houses and took
over the farm: you will discover a preserved and authentic
architecture, the sheepfold and its sheep going for summer
transhumances on the Mont-Lozere, donkeys and horses you can
feed…
You will have your meals under the vine arbour or the large
dining room and you will taste the local and regional
specialties, the Cevennes meats, mountain lamb, "pelardon"
as is called the local goatcheese, vegetables grown in
Vernet own kitchengarden, raspberries and various other
tasty fruits. At breakfast you will enjoy home-made yogurts,
sourdough bread and colorful confitures(jams) on the terrace.
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If you like nature, hiking
roads like Flandonenque
path (P.R) will make you discover the most curious valley and if
you are patient patient you will be able to observe stags,
roe-deers, wild boars and raptors,
a whole fauna adapted to the roughness of the country. It is also
a stop over close to the way of Stevenson (G.R 70), that can
accommodate you. You will be surprised by the quietness of this
lost valley.
From Vernet you can access four hiking roads to
discover the valley or go sightseeing in the Cevennes (around one
hour drive). In summer, enjoy see-trough water rivers, those “gardons”,
rivers forming Gard - abound in trouts, crayfish and beavers…
and Gerard, who is a hydrobiologist and specialist in animal
behavior will be happy to speak to you about it!
You will spend one or several days under oak
trees and chestnut trees in those mountains that change colors
every season, and which beauty always make you heart happy…
enoying bird singings and sheep bells as only background noise.
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Who are we ?
Gerard is hydrobiologist and
agronomist, and is now working on the farm with
Sabine, agricultural engineer and horse-lover. They
are restoring this hamlet where there are only 5
inhabitants during the year: Gerard, Sabine, Diane,
high school student, Lea schoolgirl, and Bernadette,
their only neighbor. |
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Chambres et table d’hôtes Vernet F-48370 Saint Germain de Calberte 00 33 (0)466459194