PÉRIGORGEOUS

Telephone/fax: +33 (0)5 53 71 05 73
Email: trishobbs@gmail.com
Location: Périgord SW France







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A great way to enjoy South-West France

An unspoilt holiday destination, whether you are looking for a guided five day visit to the Périgord region of South West France with an emphasis on wine food and architecture, staying in a private 18th century chateau or medieval manor house, being guided by locals and being welcomed into a private home.

You would like a guided Truffle Tour in winter (January and February) visiting a truffle market, a truffle wholesaler, watching a dog (or a pig) finding truffles and enjoying truffle themed menus for two days.

You own a property or are staying in the area and would like local experts to organise an important event- a wedding or party – any event that requires experience and flair.

Dany Chouet was born in the Dordogne region and came to fame as a chef in Australia where she was feted as the 'midwife of modern Australian cuisine', after a career of 30 years there she has returned to her roots in the beautiful countryside around the bastide town of Villereal. With her partner Trish Hobbs who was a stylist for lifestyle magazines and television, they ran the internationally famous restaurant and small hotel 'Cleopatra' in the Blue mountains outside Sydney, Australia recognised for the great food, style, atmosphere,assiduous service and decoration.

Now we have settled in the Périgord region, where the departements of Lot et Garonne, Dordogne and the Lot meet, surrounded with bastide towns, chateaux and manor houses, there is beauty both natural and man made at every turn. For the gourmet there are markets and the great dishes of the South-West: confits and cassoulets, game, soups and stews,truffles and foie gras and of course lovely wine. For the lover of architecture: lovely hill towns and ancient chateaux, astoundingly beautiful unspoiled buildings hundreds of years old. There are gardens to visit, or just to admire in passing, and the countryside, unspoilt and changing almost weekly with the seasons.

So the idea of 'Périgorgeous' began to form, a way to share this secret (and indeed gorgeous) corner of France, either to join us for a guided visit for a few days, with an emphasis on the food and wine of the region, staying in carefully chosen local chateaux or manor houses, and experience how it is to live here. The dream of living or visiting in this corner of France is so universal that not only have magazine articles (Gourmet Traveller July07) been written about our life here but also a film was shot for the Lifestyle Channel (March 08) .