La Bégude des Alpilles, a maison boutique, is a quirky town house offering a quality stop for discerning travellers, a staging post for cyclists and a base station for climbers in the historic village of Orgon between St.Rémy-de-Provence and l'Isle-sur-la Sorgue, just southeast of Avignon. Spend a relaxing night with us in the generously-sized guest bedroom with own bathroom in a private stone town house in the middle of the village, and tuck in to a breakfast to keep you going for most of the day. One-night stays also welcome. Feeling lethargic? Cycle up Mont Ventoux in the morning, get lost in the perched villages of the Luberon for lunch, then spend the afternoon climbing the cliffs of the Alpilles just down the road!

Brigitta and Clement bought the property in 2007, renovated it a few years later and started the Bégude as an enterprise in 2019. Brigitta, from South Germany, was a previous flight attendant with legendary TWA. In Hawai she obtained her professional bar-tender's certificate. Clement, from England, was a hydrologist and was paid to slouch around developing countries. They now also offer a support service to English- and German-speaking expatriates in France.

Find yourself squashed directly below the cliffs at the eastern end of the limestone Alpilles range and the Durance river, where in former centuries the villagers exacted tolls from passing travellers. Look over to the right bank of the river and the mighty Luberon range and, further afield, the Vaucluse culminating in the Mont Ventoux of Tour-de-France fame.