Food & Drink
Wine Uncovered - local wine tasting tours (Sablet, Gigondas) with a bilingual expert
Domaine de Piaugier
- our favourite wine maker in the village
Raymond Usseglio - excellent and reasonably priced wine producer at Châteauneuf du Pape
Patricia Wells - the famous food writer runs cookery courses near Vaison (15 minutes' drive)
Le Grand Pré - fantastic Michelin-star restaurant at Roaix (5 minutes' drive)
Les Abeilles - up-market restaurant in Sablet
L'Oustalet - well-renowned Gigondas restaurant (5 minutes' drive)
Le Dolium - great restaurant in Beaumes de Venise (15 minutes' drive)
Lou Canesteou - incredible specialist cheese shop in Vaison
Art & Culture
Les Journées du Livre - Sablet's amazing book festival which takes place every July
Mireille Estévenin - provençale artist, specialising in still lives and trompe l'oeil
Vaison-la-Romaine - all you need to know about our lovely local town
Avignon theatre festival - the city buzzes in July
Le Palais des Papes - Avignon's historic landmark (well, there's the bridge as well..)
Les Chorégies d'Orange - summer opera festival in the Roman Theatre in Orange
Arènes de Nîmes - events in the Nîmes amphitheatre
Transport
Avignon Airport - 45 minutes away
Nîmes Airport - just under an hour away
Marseille Airport - just over an hour away
SNCF - the French railway network
TransVaucluse - local bus timetables
Places to stay
La Saugie - lovely little B&B in Sablet if you want to stay an extra night or two
Le Clos des Pins - luxury 4 bedroom villa with pool in nearby Villedieu
Le Paradis de Marie - charming B&B in St-Amour , Beaujolais
(a great stop-over if you're driving south)
Tuscany Holiday Rent - very helpful and friendly holiday rental site with lots of nice properties
Friends Further Afield
The Charles Lamb - lovely old fashioned London pub with a French connection
Les Caves du Midi - amazing wine shop in Munich specialising in the South of France
HD Vins - interesting Parisian wine merchant, specialising in Burgundy
The Winery - London based wine merchant supplied by lots of small producers
Yapp Brothers - top UK importers of Rhône wines
Legs of Lamb - food and drink blog from the Charles Lamb kitchen
TAG Fine Arts - affordable prints and original works by interesting artists
69 Colebrooke Row - lovely London cocktail bar
Ciclos Uno - best road bike shop in South East England
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