If………….. you can handle waking up to a soft Mediterranean sun rising behind the nearby Luberon Mountain range before easing your way down a flight of ancient steps across a lawn to a large swimming pool where the call of bee eaters, the sight of a soaring eagle and the aroma of Provence are the biggest test your senses will face all morning, then La Teyssiere might just a place to awaken.

If a warm shower in a limestone bathroom chased by a breakfast of Carpentras melon, freshly baked croissants and rich, black coffee downed in the shade of a Tamarind tree, in a world in which the warm air is only occasionally disturbed by a gentle perfumed breeze, in a garden where only natural sounds prevail, is of any appeal to you then La Teyssiere could be a place to kick-start your day.

If the difficult choice of your most challenging activity lies between lying back on a comfortable chaise immersed in the book you’d promised yourself you would read, and immersing yourself in a refreshing pool when the temperature was more than you could bear and then deciding whether a glass of local organically produced vin rosé was a better option than its white cousin, then this could find its way onto your list of places to spend a morning.

If having to deliberate about the conflicting benefits of a lunch comprising a range of local produce who’s reputation proceeds it or thinking about ranging through the Gorge de Lourmarin to a choice of restaurants where three Michelin rosettes adorn the menu or having to take the gut wrenching decision as to whether lunch is better taken al fresco style or in the deep cool of a thickly walled southern interior, we might be able to point you in the right direction.

If taking a well deserved post-lunch nap in the shade of a Tilleuil tree, or working off the accumulated guilt of an accumulating waistline by front-crawling down the seventeen metre pool, is your kind of idea of a pleasant afternoon or if having to labour over the decision as to whether a stroll in the gentle, rolling neighbouring garrigue is a better option than meandering on foot or bicycle through the local cedar forest trails is as far as you want your decision making facilities to be taxed, then why not consider an afternoon or two at La Teyssiere.

If sipping a cold beer to oil the wheels of dinner preparation beneath the hanging vines on a south facing terrace as the sun goes down, before putting together the ingredients in a fully equipped French kitchen is your idea of the only good alternative to taking to the country roads to discover one of any number of great restaurants within a short distance then, just maybe, you could find La Teyssiere is somewhere to pass more than one evening.

If watching the fading sunlight effortlessly ease the easterly mountain view into silhouette as the moon rises and you amble through as many courses of dinner as you can muster before turning to candlelit conversation under stars you never dreamt you’d ever see is your idea of how to spend an evening which ends to the sound of cicadas and scop owls, then trawl through this website……………you might just be on to something when considering where to spend a summer week or two!