Experiences
Seasons & What’s On
Open all year
Season by season
Come in the months no one thinks of
What’s coming
The postcard shows July. We live here the other eleven months too, and we like them better: truffles, almond blossom, the irises, the harvest, the new oil, Christmas with the fires lit. The houses are open in every one of them; this is what each looks like, and the dates worth planning a stay around.
Markets
Harvests
Concerts
Festivals
Christmas
March to May
Spring
The irises, the first roses, the horses out all day, and the Alpilles at their greenest before the heat. Breakfast moves outside again, the windows stay open until dinner, and Easter fills the houses. The pools are warm from May, and from April if you ask.
June to August
Summer
The cicadas from the first hot morning, the shutters closed against the noon sun, the pool at the centre of the day, and dinner at ten under the plane trees, while the stone gives back the heat. Weeks only, Saturday to Saturday.
September to February
Autumn and winter
The light turns low and golden, the vines go red, the olives ripen, and then the mistral scrubs the sky a hard, clear blue. Fires in the evening, long walks that end at the table, and the hills to yourselves. For the coldest weeks, La Bergerie de Calabrun has its indoor pool.
Dates worth holding
What is coming
Truffle markets, January
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence and the Vaucluse markets on Saturday mornings, and Quentin cooking what comes back.
Almond blossom, February
Two weeks of it across the Alpilles, and the quietest weeks of the year in the houses.
Transhumance, Whit Monday
The flocks walked through Saint-Rémy-de-Provence on their way to the summer pastures.
Lavender, early July
The fields above Eygalières in flower, the plateaux an hour and a half from the gate.
The harvest, September
Grapes in the domaines of Les Baux-de-Provence, the green-olive festival at Mouriès, long lunches where the picking is going on.
Concerts in the cloisters
Summer evenings in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence and Les Baux-de-Provence, tickets held on request.
December
The new oil on the table, the foie gras fair at Fontvieille, the Christmas markets, the thirteen desserts, and the fires lit at home afterwards.
Plan around a date
Come for something, or for nothing
Tell us roughly when you are free and we will say what is on, what is worth travelling for and which weeks to keep empty.