Classic Cuisine in Normandy.

Each day in our Cookery School will focus on your passion for food as you cook, shop and eat your way through the holiday.

There's fun both in and out of the kitchen with visits to local markets and places of interest. There will also be plenty of time for relaxing by the pool, walking around the grounds and woods or even a little personal shopping.

Your time here in Normandy will be dedicated to the enjoyment of good food (including cooking it) fine wines and stimulating conversation in the beautiful 16th century Manoir.

A little about the area...

This area renowned for producing some of the best dairy produce in France, it is the country of AOC (controlled appellation of origin label), Isigny butter and cream.

It is a land of varied resources and large wooded massifs such as the national forest of Cerisy. The Western boundaries of the Paris basin spread forth to the North East of Bayeux, irrigated by the Seulles river and affluents to the verdant valleys nestled in grooves of the rich sedimentary plateau where cereal production is dominant. This is the land of fine limestone and vast fortified farms.

The Bessin area is made up of a dense network of villages and hamlets, each with its own parish church; jewels of the Romanesque and Gothic eras testifying to their foundation centuries ago.

In the immediate vicinity you can find stately residences, manor houses and mediaeval fortified chateaux, dating back to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, evidence of the wealth and gradual division of ancient feudal fiefs.