When we discovered this place in 1981, at the end of an unlikely path, partially covered by bushes, guarded by a few cows during the summer, we took 15 minutes to buy it. Just the time to glimpse the harmony that it could emanate one day, and without realising that it would take...23 years of work, 23,000 working hours to succeed in totally restoring it.
  We took the time to impregnate ourselves with the atmosphere of the country, of the place. We managed to gather, as time went by, the necessary ancient material. We collected the stone. We cut, one by one, the thousands of bushes that invaded the meadows . We tried to listen to what the place wanted to tell us. And we rebuilt, without adding 1 extra bit of metre square to the original surface.
  If you like the calmness, the discreet agitation of nature, the harmony beetwen the construction and the environment, the comfort, the warmth of the traditional materials, the order in the big well kept garden, and to lounge by the swimming pool, rocked by the noise of water, come to, The Athanor, you will be at home with your happy hosts.