10/10 Excellent
Carol W., Wethersfield, CT
May 8, 2024
Liked: Cleanliness
Extraordinary lodging and base for exploring beautiful « Swiss Normandy »
Sandrine and Yves have created the most comfortable, beautiful, impeccably clean, and well-located (14th century!) lodging imaginable. Three couples each had private, spacious and luxurious rooms. We thought 4 days would be enough to savor the beauty of this part of Normandy south of Caen and a bit north of Flers - driving east to the chateau at Falaise (with its great use of technology to bring the castle’s history alive) and to the Camembert museum with tasting, north to the Roman ruins/museum at Vieux la Romaine, the quaint WWII Blackwater Museum at Berjou (where Germans were trapped in the « Falaise Pocket »), Pere Magloire Calvados Experience and Chateau de Crèvecœur and west to Mont Saint Michel. But we could easily have stayed longer. We loved the Thursday outdoor market at Conde-en-Normandie and preparing our meals in the manor’s wonderful kitchen, playing the piano in one of the sitting areas, reading around the cozy pellet stove in another sitting area, catching glimpses of the manor’s sheep and chickens, chatting with the very personable, hard-working and helpful hosts (and meeting their beautiful Australian shepherds). We would love to return - to relax in their gorgeous heated pool, spend more time just hanging out on the property, and drive around the pear orchards to the south, visit the Livarot cheese museum, visit the printing museum, and much more. We highly recommend the very special Domaine de la Blanchere. There is so much to see and do in this area!
Carol W.
Stayed 4 nights in May 2024