Foreign Perspectives

The profile of guests that we receive changes quite dramatically throughout the year but it’s September that tends to provide the most enjoyable mix for us.

July and August always seems filled with people racing from A to B and, on the whole, just using us as a waypoint in their travels. In the very peak periods we get a lot of the overflow from the beach resorts which means that there are a fair number of people staying with us who really wanted to be at the beach and this therefore represents the peak of our problem guests too.

Early September sees a dramatic change in the profile. For a start, that coincides with the Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival and we generally get some journalists staying with us then which always makes for a more interesting time. By mid-September we usually get some people staying for quite a long time using us as a base to explore the region. As we’ve fewer people staying at this time, we get to interact much more with those that are with us which makes for a more enjoyable time: we’ve already had the traditional storyteller from last week and this week it’s a historian who’s been filling in loads of gaps in our knowledge of the history of this area.