Features

• Calvados is excellent value for money. Property is less expensive than further north – because it’s outside the daily commuting distance to Paris – but you have access to all of the same amenities.
• Being located at a crossroads between a minor road and a country lane, there is some passing local traffic but very little road noise and that is mostly from farm equipment.
• It’s a modernised stone farmhouse. Up to date but retaining its period features: beams and stonework. If you want an overnight, city ‘pied de terre’ this may not be for you.
• But, if you want access to city restaurants and shops you can be in Caen in 40 minutes, Rouen in 70 and the centre of Paris in two and a half hours.
• Its convenient for the ferry ports of Cherborg, Caen, Le Havre and Rouen, so week-end’s away – with full days in France – are actually achievable!
• It comes with a range of charming stone buildings ready for conversion into cottages or gites.
• If you value space and tranquility over convenience with congestion, this French country location within minutes of towns could be ideal.
• If art is of interest, Normandy ranks with Paris as the cradle of impressionism. The picture above is one of a series by Georges Seurat of  Port en Bessin.

The Bessin is an area in Normandy, corresponding to the ancient territory of the gaulish tribe , the Bajocasse, who also gave their name to the city of Bayeux, central town of the Bessin. The name of Normandy is derived from the settlement and conquest of the territory by Vikings from the 9th century, and confirmed by treaty in the 10th century. For a century and a half following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, Normandy and England were linked by Norman rulers, but following 1204 all of Normandy was ultimately held by France. The Bessin is primarily a cattle rearing region, although cider, calvados, fishing and tourism are also major activities. Much of it is enclosed within the ‘Parc Regional du Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin’.