France - we want gites but near a village

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That's about all - its a big country but we seem to be struggling to find a search engine that will narrow it down for us - any recommendation please?
Needs to have a pool and we'd like to walk to restaurants and bakery, we'd like nice weather so fairly far south I guess.
Ideally it would be a small gite complex so that we and the kids have someone else to talk to.

try les eyzies de tayac in the dordogne. we stayed in a gite there last year and the owners also had a small group of gites further out of the village. nice area with lots to see and do.

I have just checked the name of the place...we stayed at la maison verte at relais les roches. It was the ground floor of a building wih another gite called la maison a cote next door. The owners also have Le Banquet down the road which is a group of a further 3 or 4 gites. All can be found on the Homeaway website.

Thank you Kitty, Le Banquet looks exactly what we are looking for - we'd never have found it otherwise and are emailing them now

Hi
You don't have to go too far south for nice weather! Try www.loirelife.com which has lots of gites and gite complexes for rental in the Loire Valley area of France - stretching from the coast and the Vendee area to the central part of France around Tours. Plenty to see and do for all ages - vineyards, beaches, chateaux, theme parks etc. Depends when you are looking to go, but school holiday availability will be limited for this year now.

We've stayed at Le Banquet - it is lovely. We never walked into town though...always drove. I guess it is about a mile or so.