CHATEAU DU PUITS ES PRATX

holiday creative courses • wine tours • outdoor sports • cooking & photography

Holiday lets • Cooking & photography courses • Horse riding • Water sports • Cycling & hiking • Wine tours • Adventure holidays • Golf • White water rafting • South of France

trips & tours •

Chateau du Puits es Pratx offers stunning holidays with many sports & leisure activities, fascinating places to explore with exciting & challenging activities to pursue. Creative courses help develop new skills & professional tuition gives confidence. Many sports include horse riding, golf, canoe or white water rafting, canal boating along the canal du midi, walking or cycling & swimming is in the mediterranean sea, in mountain rivers, in inland lakes & of course in our heated swimming pool.

Creative courses & guided trips & tours from Chateau du Puits es Pratx include intensive cooking courses within a working restaurant, photography with a professional & practising photographer including digital processing using photoshop techniques & painting with a practising artist & illustrator. Wine tours & history tours are offered within the Minervois, Corbiéres & Haute Languedoc wine regions.

Walking, hiking & bicycling, golf & tennis are organised with a variety of routes that can satisfy all levels of fitness & skill; along the canal du midi, the mountains & sea etangs. Enjoy your holiday surrounded by really beautiful countryside. Bicycles are also available to hire. There are golf courses & tennis courts nearby. There are extensive cycling & walking routes where there are many options for those with different levals of skills; ideal locations for novice & the very experienced alike. Routes & maps are supplied to walkers & cyclists wanting to explore the mountains.

We offer a fun, friendly & relaxed atmosphere for your holiday, combined with great food & wine.

Intensive & regional cooking courses ‘hands on’ practical skills tuition & tutorials. Learn about the local French cuisine of the South of France & create special dinner-party recipes with influences from Spain, Gascony & classic French cuisine. A typical food course is held in both our restaurant kitchen & our dessert kitchen. Our students can also decide on courses that give the student a real experience of working in a restaurant kitchen, the pressure, the excitement & the challange of a demanding service. If you are a foodie fan, this is a memorable learning experience.

For more in depth information please view our web site on www.gogourmetfrance.com

Photographic courses. Courses for small groups or individuals are given by Tim Hazael BA. who has been a Professional free-lance photographer with 30 years experience. Any level of experience is catered for & tuition includes still-life, reportage, portrait & landscapes. He works with each student, taking pictures for discussion alongside the images taken by each pupil. He starts with an assessment of technical abilities & strengths of each pupil & then practices what is individually appropriate. Tim guides each student, advising & teaching all the basic techniques of composition, exposure, lighting & some tricks of the trade. A day or half day can be dedicated to working on computers, covering subjects such as processing files, editing, retouching, filing & working with Photoshop.

For more information the photography courses please view our web site on www.gophotofrance.com

Return home with great images, a better understanding & far greater confidence in your photography.

Wine tours help you discover superb wines direct from the vignerons themselves; the regions visited are Corbiéres, Limoux, Coteaux de Languedoc & Minervois. The Languedoc is now creating some of the most exciting wines in France, we take you to meet some of the small producers that we have built a special relationship with & whose vineyards you would otherwise be unable to visit. We try to help you understand the wine making techniques & the history of this very unique wine making region.

Culture tours are based on Occitania, the land of the Cathars, killed in the Albigensian crusade. The region is a mix of vineyards, castles & Medieval villages, built into rock faces or next to the banks of clear, mountain rivers. Queribus, Carcassonne, Gorge de Galamus, Canal du midi & Rennes le chateau are included in tours that reach to the Spanish border. The nature of the region is diverse with caves that date back to the beginning of man.