Au Passage du Gois - holiday cottages in the Western Loire area - Vendée

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Au Passage du Gois - holiday cottages in the Western Loire area - Vendée

Welcome to our holiday cottages in the Vendee on the french Atlantic coast

24/08/2026

We hadn't even finished editing the video and then is was already as if it had never happened... The sun is shining beautifully again.

18/08/2026

Our activities this week:

1. can you guess yesterday's activity by looking at the photos? :-)
2. evening walk
3. fishing for wedge clams and shrimp

In short, our guests (and we too 😀) are still thoroughly enjoying the summer. We hope you are as well. Have a great day.

Greetings from France,

Hemko and Martine

13/08/2026

Did you watch the eclipse yesterday? Naturally, we went to the Passage du Gois with our guests. We brought along cushions and refreshments. It was a really great experience.

11/08/2026

🦉🐇🦔 While we sleep, it comes to life in our former vegetable garden...

Our wildlife camera captured these nocturnal visitors by the water trough this week.

02/08/2026

Are you enjoying the summer? Time seems to be flying by. Is it the same for you?

Even after 20 years, something new can still happen. Early one morning, we found an eel on the road right by our entrance. How on earth did it get there?!?

We are pleased to see that work is well underway on the cycle path towards Fromentine and the bridge to the island of Noirmoutier. Things have paused briefly for the holiday season, but work will resume in September; the signs are already up. Once it’s finished, you’ll be able to take a lovely circular route starting from our place. It’s 25 km in total, so it’s easily manageable even without an e-bike.

We have six banana trees in bloom this year. The first (tiny) bananas are yellow.

We do a bit of maintenance work now and then, provided it doesn't disturb our guests—like installing these beautiful Maxibel lights in our parking area.

We’re even thinking ahead to next year already. We plan to remove the wooden garden shed under the trees in the spring and create a terrace there instead. We’ve already placed a bench there as a trial run and are enjoying the view.

17/07/2026

We are enjoying the summer, and it looks like our guests are too 😎 The pool area is lively and colorful; we’re having a great time with our activities and we are, very seriously of course🍽️, testing out restaurants for our guests 😊 Every now and then, we go for a picnic or a walk in our beautiful surrounding area 🌞 or we head to fun events in nearby villages, like the kite festival 🪁 on the photo.

Are you enjoying the summer?

Have a good weekend,

Hemko and Martine

27/06/2026

Thierry, our favorite salt farmer in Bouin, has been sweating these past few days (and had a lot of salt). Hemko took the photos when we visited him last Thursday.

Have a great weekend!

Best regards,

Hemko and Martine

22/06/2026

It is better to drive over the Passage du Gois at low tide. Hemko took this photo of the poor people with their caravan a few days ago. His picture even made it into the newspaper.

Are you enjoying the sunny weather? At our place, the swimming pool is being used gratefully 😎 The owls chasing away pooping pigeons are watching. Can you picture yourself floating in the sun or the shade? You surely understand that Hemko cleans the pool with pleasure every day 💦😊

We had a lot of activity around our house this weekend due to the Foulees du Gois, with 2,000 runners on the Passage du Gois. With a bit of humor, we kept (almost) all the french men with an urgent need at bay.

This past weekend we made the first batch of jam of the year; apricots. An elderberry bush was heavily pruned, and while cleaning the cottage, we quickly snapped a photo of our banana plantation. We have three flowers so far this year.

To our delight, there are an above-average number of butterflies in the garden. It is beautiful to see, but very difficult to take a good photo of them.

Have a great week and enjoy the summer!🌻

Greetings from France,

Hemko & Martine

12/06/2026

☀️💐Today marks twenty years since we started living in Beauvoir-sur-Mer!💐☀️

The first photo is from June 12, 2006, when we just came back from the notary's office.

The second photo, taken in approximately the same spot, was taken on April 6 of this year, after we had made our final mortgage payment and Au Passage du Gois was truly all ours 😊

The twenty best, but also most intense years of our lives. We look back on them with great pleasure. Many thanks to everyone who made living and working at Le Ménitres a joy! Here's to the next twenty years 👍

Have a great weekend,

Hemko and Martine

11/06/2026

Bonjour!

How are you? Things are going well here in Beauvoir-sur-Mer 😊 We are now living in our summer residence 🌻 the garden looks beautiful and we are enjoying the summer just like our guests.

We saw this week beautiful birds on our bird safari, last night we had a fun time playing 'palets' with our guests, and tomorrow we are going to watch when the Passage du Gois fills up again.

But we also have to get to work, of course 😊 This afternoon, among other things, we went for a trip to the bulky waste collection with empty bottles, because the weather was of the thirsty kind for a moment😎 Our swimming pool was already 29°C even in May 🌞

For those visiting us or elsewhere in France this summer, we have included a handy link below with information about the new toll system.

You can now also book online on our website, so if you feel like coming our way, you are more then welcome. We kindly invite you to check our availability.

'Bonne lecture', as the French would say 😊

Have a nice day! Warm regards from France, Hemko and Martine

Adresse

Le Menitres
Beauvoir-sur-Mer
85230

Téléphone

+33251490217

Site Web

https://aupassagedugois.com/

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