House 2/4 people Vineyard Piano green nature quiet

Ermitage les Roches is an ideal area for couples or families in the heart of nature. Large wooded park above the vineyard. 3 ha terraced garden with panoramic views of the valley. Unique and surprising. Rejuvenation, disconnection, detox guaranteed. The luxury of silence. Hiking, Forez Mountains and Auvergne volcanoes. 4 Michelin-starred restaurants: Troisgros, Le Prieuré, Origny, Restaurant de la Loire 11 gourmet restaurants Golf de Villerest Roannaise Coast Cellars Kawai upright piano. The space an alpine house in stone and wood with all the comforts, habitable summer and winter, surrounded by nature, in absolute calm. It comfortably accommodates up to 4 people. 2 bedrooms with private bathroom and toilet. The annex house visible in the photos is inaccessible and is not occupied. Oil heating, gas stove and electric oven. A wood-burning stove in the main room in addition to central heating. Located above the vineyards of the Côte Roannaise (the most Mediterranean vineyard of the Loire hillsides, in the extreme south of Burgundy). Panoramic view of the Loire plain and the Forez plain. Sunrise over the Beaujolais Mountains. Mont Blanc on the horizon in clear and dry weather. A water lily pond and a reservoir with fish, shaded terraces, raspberries, blackberries, currants, deer, squirrels and hares. The hawks that play in the rising currents in the morning before your eyes above the woods. The kitchen has been completely redone and the appliances have been replaced. It is equipped for those who like to cook or bake with (or without) children. A tuned Kawai piano is available for musicians. Guest access you have access to the whole house and gardens. Be careful to take care of trees and shrubs and respect nature. A plant sometimes takes years to grow and bloom, respect them and enjoy the gardens. An access map with photos and guidance is sent by email after booking. Specify when requesting to book the details of the people staying with you, so that you can distribute the rooms as comfortably as possible. Other things to note Bed linen is provided with 1 towel per person. There is a washing machine and dishwasher. The bedding has been changed recently. The kitchen has also been redone. THE CUTLERY IS IN THE INNER DRAWER of the drawer to the left of the stove! It is a house in the middle of nature in calm and rest, it will offer you contemplation and serenity, do not come looking for the artifices of a 5-star palace, you would have mistaken the destination. It's a hermitage in the comfort of a mountain house. You have to accept nature and know that it always takes over. So you can come across a lizard or a bee, a fly or a vole in the meadow. Be careful in the tall grass in summer, and enjoy the climbing roses without pricking your fingers when picking them. In winter only the rooms of the annex are reserved for visitors who are used to nature (mountaineers, hikers, sailors, athletes...) for nighttime temperature issues. They have an auxiliary heater that cannot be maintained permanently, and blankets replace the technology. These rooms in the annex heat up in 30 minutes. To enjoy the sun and correct the erroneous comments, there are deckchairs and also a table and chairs for lunch outside in the shade of the cherry tree. THE LUXURY OF SILENCE... what you come to look for and what you will find in the Roches estate is a luxury that has become rare. Not a luxury of mirrors and gilding of the 18th century, no, a much simpler, much more frugal and much more spiritual luxury. This luxury is nature and its very special silence, it is the contrasting view of the city far at your feet in the plain with its excessive and disproportionate lights, which turns its back on the mystery and absolute beauty of the Milky Way that you will contemplate by looking up to the West at night. Because today silence has become a luxury, the real sounds of birds answering each other in the trees, the walking of beetles on dead leaves, the construction of ants in the undergrowth, the line of a twisted birch, the hooting of an owl in the night, the yapping of deer in the undergrowth, the sound of a trickle of water in a pond, the jump of a frog in the water. This silence above the hustle and bustle of men is the result of patient work for many years to keep this house and its park away from the eyes of the curious, to ensure its isolation is respected, and to maintain it over the seasons. A house and park at an altitude of 800 m like this one require a lot of maintenance throughout the year. It is necessary to rake and clean the terraces regularly, pick up the dead branches that fall during thunderstorms, consolidate the dry stone walls around the terraces, trim the hedges, replant trees, prune every year, stone the path, plug the holes that dormice make in the lime joints between the stones, repair the tile roofs when the storm has shaken them to avoid leaks, tear out the broom and brambles that invade, weed around the house the terraces and ponds, clean the reeds or invasive water plants, sharpen the tools, repair a pickaxe handle, reassemble a wall, repaint inside or on the shutters. And then prepare the house for you by eliminating the spider webs that always come back faster, take care of the decoration so that you are comfortable in the light of the rooms, repair a heater, a leaking toilet, replace chipped dishes, maintain bathrooms and toilets again and again. I could tell you all this in detail, but that's not your subject. Maintaining the house to be able to share it with you in good conditions requires much more energy than simply living in it, and I do it with great pleasure when I feel over the comments all the pleasure I can share with you even when we do not cross paths. So for this rare luxury that is the preserved nature and the lively silence of the mountain, I appeal to your indulgence and your understanding when nature takes over and surprises us: a storm, a small rodent, some insects, water or the sun that sometimes becomes hot in summer these years. I propose to share this rare Luxury, and I ask you to respect it by contributing to ensuring that this house and this estate can continue to be shared in a permanent search for aesthetics and osmosis with the Nature that surrounds it.