l'Age Baston - Fine French Holidays
We aim to give you the very best for your holiday in France:
Stop Press! 'The very best painting holiday ever'
Artist and Illustrators magazine
gives l'Age Baston a great write up,
Please click here to see article.
(Reproduced by kind permission of the Artist and Illustrators' Magazine.)
NEWS - ALL-NEW WEBSITE
Yes, we know that in the last edition of the l'Age Baston Chronicles we promised all our friends that we would have a brand-spanking new website early in the New Year, but the flesh is weak and the new site has been delayed while we repair the damage inflicted on the pool by the severe winter. Sorry! It will be coming 'Real Soon Now'™.
At l'Age Baston we do holidays in France: French painting holidays, French language holidays, walking holidays, and French country cooking holidays. Situated in a lovely part of Charente, Château l'Age Baston is the perfect base for a delightful activity holiday in France.
Our painting courses are run by the very best of tutors, who as well as being accomplished artists, have a gift for teaching their knowledge. The tutors for our French courses are native speakers to help you with learning French and our cooking courses and walking field trips are taken personally by your hosts, Alexandra and John Waddington.
If your partner is keen on one of our French painting holidays or French language courses, and this all sounds like too much action, fear not!
While he or she is working, you can take things a bit more easily, maybe a walking holiday appeals to you, or you may wish to brush up on your culinary skills learning French country cooking, or may be you'd rather just relax.
French painting holidays at l'Age Baston
Come and paint with us in our Château in Charente. l'Age Baston is the perfect setting for a painting holiday in France and there are French language courses plus French Country Cooking and Walking holidays for partners and friends.
Need to improve your watercolour technique? Want to develop your drawing skills? Composition? Colour? Perspective? Never fear, be you cheerful beginner or practised expert, our team of professional and personable tutors can sort you out and help you unleash that creative tiger inside. What's more they'll have a good time doing it too.
l'Age Baston painting holidays and art courses are unique. You stay at the Château with John and Alexandra, your host & hostess. The hospitality and food are stunning. There's a wealth of things to paint, a big studio to paint in, expert tutors help you, 20 acres of woods and garden to explore and a huge 17th century historic house to share with like minded, friendly people. If that sounds good to you then please find out more and enjoy a holiday in France at l'Age Baston. The Chateau and its grounds are full of subjects for drawing, with interesting buildings like our pigeonnier, and life subjects like our rare breed donkeys Napoleon and Picasso, all contributing to an enjoyable and instructive painting holiday.
French language holidays at l'Age Baston
Learn French in France! Why would you like to learn French on a holiday in France? May be you want to brush up on your French to help enjoy your holidays, if so 'French for Francophiles' will fit the bill. Or possibly 'Intensive French' would allow you to go that stage further. If you've just blagged your way into a job in France, don't speak the language, and you start in just two weeks, then a one-on-one exclusive Intensive French course may save your bacon. Whatever you choose, our French tutors are native French speakers as well as being skilled teachers. Use your holiday in France to learn French and ensure that you enjoy future holidays in France even more.
French walking holidays at l'Age Baston
One of our l'Age Baston French walking holidays is the ideal way to enjoy yourself and keep fit! Enjoy the beautiful Charente scenery walking off those pounds while your partner paints. Drop in on a local mill and see how the local walnuts are pressed to yield that delicious oil. At the end of your holiday in France return home ready to face the world.
If you choose one of our walking holidays in France, then the local Charente countryside has so much to offer, beautiful woods, rolling hills, cyclamen-carpeted woods, and lots of wild life. You can even choose a French walking holiday route which will take in a local cave so you can sample the produce.
French cooking holidays at l'Age Baston
There can be few things more enjoyable yet useful as a French country cooking holiday: afterwards you'll be able to recreate that French feeling any time you like by using your new Gallic culinary skills, rekindling memories of your holidays in France. There may be other justifications as well: we can't promise that you'll be like one of our guests who wanted to learn to cook in order to boost his wooing technique. His next visit to l'Age Baston was on his honeymoon!
Should a French cookery holiday take your fancy, learning French country cooking, then you will return home with new skills ready to amaze your friends and family!
Not Taking Part?
If you just want to relax while your partner joins one of our activity holidays in France, then all the things that make l'Age Baston good for a painting holiday, learning French, walking holiday or cooking holiday, will help you relax as well!
- Relax in the orchard reading or just snoozing,
- Have a dip in our pool,
- Stroll though our woods with their cyclamen carpets,
- Explore the historic town of la Rochefoucauld, or
- Enjoy the local Charente produce, including Pineau, hand-made chocolate, wine and Cognac
- Return home rejuvenated by your holiday in France
Find out more
Explore our website, if you have any questions contact us (see the Contacts Page) and visit us soon! We can promise you a fine holiday in France, be it a painting holiday, art course, learning French, walking holiday or cooking holiday...
Alex and John Waddington.
