2 bedrooms
2 bathrooms
sleeps 4
PAMPER yourself in a special nest overlooking the Park and Port Tabarka, with terrace views across the étang to Sète & the Mont St Clair.
Les Rives du Port offers a unique hideaway on the banks of the waters of the little port... read on to discover why Les Rives is the favourite choice for couples and friends.
Have a late Summer getaway this October:
If you missed out on a Marseillan escape this summer - come and join us for the wine festival season of October
2022 - Summer selling fast
just 2 weeks in May and 2 weeks in August left
Just beyond the greenery, between the jetties of the port and the park, is the the champ des pecheurs, the fishermen's field, where nets are strung between the trees to dry as the pecheurs
themselves gossip and idle away the afternoons and look out across the lagoon in in the shade of the Madeleine Saint Jean winery.
The cave itself is around 50 yards from the house, and here you can pick up a bottle of the Maison Rouge or a crisp Chardonnay to serve on your terrace with the evening meal.
For yourselves, be like the locals and keep a biberon on hand to fill up with good country wine by the litre and serve in pichets as you toast the setting sun. You may park your car right in
front of the house, next to the field.
From the bedroom and its private terrace, come back indoors and make your way up the white-painted wooden stairs to the first floor salon-sejour:
A modern well-equipped kitchen for people who enjoy good Mediterranean food prepared with passion,as the southern sunshine spills in through the window. Now with a dishwasher to allow you to linger
on the terrace after dinner. the kitchen also has a ceramic hob, electric oven, microwave and fridge.
A high-end music system and the TV for quiet nights in. And a cooling through breeze in summer as you enjoy either your own tunes or the house owner's eclectic taste in music.
A brand new ensuite shower/wetroom and a seperate wc on the same level.
This bedroom now has an extra-wide kingsized double bed. Space for pampering and quality me time, comfortable chairs, with desks and tables to catch the wifi signal for catching up on your emails, or
simply gazing out over two contrasting views of Marseillan:
Decisions, Decisions ... Will it be breakfast in bed, or breakfast in the sunny living room, or breakfast on the terrasse, or breakfast in the tiny courtyard garden, peeking out at the port
through the shrubs and plants ?
We never said life was easy in Marseillan Village.
Some things you just have to work out for yourselves. Enjoy our diary of events in and around Marseillan and the region during your stay, with tips on nearby markets and festivals and reviews of the
best restaurants in the village and port.
Ask for information on sight-seeing, itineraries, wine tasting, dining further afield and other trips, from visiting a goat farm to tasting delicious cheeses to catching the local ferry to north
Africa or, staying closer to home and driving up to the back country.
Up to the hills of the back country to discover Cathar castles and the Languedoc of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code and Kate Mosse's Labyrinth - or perhaps the Cevennes of Robert Louis Stevenson's famed Travels With a Donkey: where you may still follow in the author's footsteps with a donkey of your own and staying in the same inns and guesthouses, still welcoming guests 150 years after the writer first made the trip. Pick up a copy of the novel - with a guidebook at the back! This is after all, the land where your holiday reading comes to life!
Relaxation is the keynote of any stay at the Rives du Port. You can see the oysterbeds from the terrace and one of the gentlest shopping trips you will take will be the lovely waterside wander
through the park, along the new plagette beach to the oyster farms.
Pick and choose your seafood supper and, on the way back, step into the red stone warehouse of the Banq family's winery and choose a flavoursome viognier white or reliable marsellan red to serve with
the meal.
You can take the same walk, leaving the car at home should you fancy dining out. In summer, fishermen's shack just beyond tha plagette, serve platters of fresh oysters with a glass of crisp chilled
picpoul and the lunchtime brasucade fishermen's barbecues at the osyer sheds are the stuff of legend.
Behind the sheds, grab a plate, find a spare place at one of the long shared tables and lunch with the locals. Mussels, sizzling in white wine and herbs, toasted over flaming vine stock, fresh sardines on the grill: pile up your plate and leave space for dessert. 4 courses, coffee and wine for under 15 euros - pretty much unforgettable stuff.
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stephane@marseillanvillage.co.uk
or call us in France on 06 06 75 65 59
Guests from the UK can call us on 07522 507915 .