ZONE BLEUE

29/07/2024

5 years since we officially went live with ZONE BLEUE on Booking.com and had our first guests. What a journey it has been, and it seem like a journey that never ends. We are always busy with guests, renovation projects or both.

Our barn has been one of the bigger projects. 3 years ago we were at the attic in the barn the first time, only to find a thick layer of compressed hay, branches and dust (and a few old coins now framed and hanging on the wall there). First phase was to get all of that out, only to find that the wood below was completely rotten and eventually it all needed to go. Creating the first part of the floor was the next and not insignificant task, lifting the entire floor construction over the old stable to level it out and insulating in between.

Since then it has been working on the walls, on the ground floor removing a layer of cement plaster and on the first floor a layer of regular old style sand/chaux plaster, cleaning in between the stones, and finally point with sand and chaux between the stones. All sounds simple, and it probably is, but it really takes a loooong time. So this has been a project to work on while we had a little downtime and the right motivation.

Once it was a plan to create a cafe and brocante there, now more realistically it has been to create a place of simplicity and calm, where you can sit and think about life and enjoy a local eau de vie (yes that’s what in the carafe) and admiring the canoe finally hanging there.

Will it stop there? Probably not, we have started sharing it with guests, and still hope we can follow through on another dream of having occasional live music there ❤️❤️

There are other projects completed we have still not share here but we will do later, some related to our guests and some just for Edith and me.

If you have not been at ZONE BLEUE yet, or want to come back to visit us again, have a look at our website: www.zonebleue.info

17/11/2023

Ons weer vrouwtje ❤️

17/11/2023

Homemade sourdough bread 🥰,made out of the starter Peter got from his dad Leif, who made Danishes brown bread for 40 years!
So a little different than a normal white sour dough 🥰

05/08/2023

Our double room called HAGUE BLUE captured in the early morning light by a French guest today - thank you soo much for sharing with us ❤️❤️

29/07/2023

Today we celebrate our 4th year anniversary of ZONE BLEUE.

It has been the most amazing journey we have shared with incredible guests. Guests who show there appreciation to Edith and I every day, in words and in reviews. We never ask for reviews but many guests turn to their pen and share their appreciation with us and others.

We celebrate our anniversary with a guest review score on Booking.com of 9,8 over a total of 593 reviews. It’s a rolling 3 year average that makes us incredibly proud. Our score of 9,8 makes us one of the highest raking Chambres d’hotes in France when you take the amount of reviews into account.

While reviews from Booking.com is an important indicator on how we are performing and viewed by our guests, feedback from guests who have booked directly with us or through our website: zonebleue.info often come in the most surprising formats. Love the feedback below we got from a Belgium couple we had staying with us on the day Jonas Vingegaard won the time trial in this year Tour de France July 18th - epic time trial and epic review ❤️❤️

Thank you to all our guests for sharing the love for our home with us….

Successful Chambre d'hotes in Auvergne - renovated Maitre Maison tastefully updated with respect for the original quality and atmosphere of the house.

28/02/2023

Another project well overdue - removing trees and serious trimming along the road as well as even more serious trimming in the garden. So far a 3 day job for the cutting alone while most of the cleaning up, cutting to smaller pieces for starters in the wood burner as well as an attempt for shredding some of the branches still remains….

I has given us an amazing and surprising amount of light even with just the branches cut and hopefully it will last for years before we will have to do it again ❤️🇫🇷❤️🇫🇷