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Lorin et Eugene (USA - Reston VIRGINI)_
2009-06-05 at 11h29
Bonjour Corrine et Benoit,

Merci encore une fois pour le bon accueil chez vous. Notre voyage hier a été long, mais sûr. Ce matin Gene et moi, nous avons préparé un petit déjeuner comme chez vous. : ) Nous mangions des croissants avec les confitures sur la terrasse. J'ai préparé du café avec mon "French press" avec un peu de lait. Nous avons mis sur la table les "placemats" avec des photos de St-Jeannet (nous avons les acheté à Marché-U). Ce n'est pas la même, mais ...

Bon weekend!

Lorin

David and Anne Hughes Hallett (Scotland)_
2009-04-18 at 16h37
We really enjoyed our stay - a great start to our week in Provence.
We particularly enjoyed the international evening meals!
Meilleurs voeux!

Randi and Torkil (Norway)_
2009-04-16 at 07h49
Dear Corinne and Benoit!

Thank you so much for a fantastic stay at The Frogs House this Easter

You were so friendly and kind to usWe felt like home from the first time we came in the door!
The Frogs House is a wounderful place to stay, and the surroundings in St Jeannet is lovely and quiet, exactly what we needed after some days in Paris!
I really hope that we some day will come back and visit you again
Best regards
Randi and Torkil

Kerstin & Adrian (Berlin/Germany)_
2009-04-14 at 13h33
Dear Corinne & Benoit,

thank you for that wonderfull and warm hosting last week!

We really enjoid the chatter, the laugh and giggle each morning and evening around the one and only big table - not to forget the really tasty dinners we have had.

Good choice you have made with that fine house in that fine village nearby these fine mountains. Good choice we made for our climbing holidays.

We wish you both a lot of fun with your The Frogshouse and your many, many guests,
Kerstin & Adrian

Anne/Frank Letain (Zurich, Switzerland)_
2009-04-13 at 14h36
The Frogs’ House

(No. 67, April 13, 2009)

Truthfully, this Easter jaunt to Provence didn’t start out so auspiciously. The day before we were to depart, Frank suffered one of those fluke back strains that occasionally happen. Naturally, it was all my fault because I was the girl who had asked Frank to bend over to retrieve a TV manual for me. Then, of course, he couldn’t get up! So, out came the frozen peas and I fortified the first aid kit with some extra Advil for the eight-hour drive to the Cote d’Azur.

Just past Geneva, GPS Jane failed us in a freaky encounter with a new piece of road that she didn’t know or like. After an hour of near tears (mine) and near tantrum (Frank), we managed to right ourselves. But it was close to 10:00 pm (22:00 for you Europhiles) when we climbed and climbed and climbed in the dead dark to our final destination. Frank was truly NOT happy, muttering something of the order that one more time I had signed us on (without his permission) to a @#$% death run up the side of another @#$% mountain!

We finally made it to the end, only to discover that we were well and truly lost in the public village parking lot. Like teenagers waiting outside on the driveway, we got out the mobile to connect. A soothing voice on the other end immediately recognizes that we are past anything civil, and says, “I will come.” Our angel of mercy (aka Corinne) appears and says the magic words, “Are you hungry? We have kept dinner for you.” I swear the girl wears wings.

And so began our three day sojourn at Benoit and Corinne’s Auberge in the wonderful perched village of Saint-Jeannet, tucked into the mountainous terrain behind Nice and overlooking the beautiful Mediterranean sea.

Guests are gathered under Benoit and Corinne’s concerned and ever friendly wings. There are trips to the market to buy and to the local vineyard to taste. There is a cooking lesson where we help to create the evening feast. Benoit shows off other perched villages off the beaten track, and we sample some delicious sweet and savoury crepes which we chase down with traditional cider. There’s a trip to an olive mill and a “pique-nique” with some of the cutest goats ever. The “girls” are even generous enough to provide the milk for the fine array of chevre we spread on our baguettes at the picnic. (Did you know that goats only have two teats?)

A very special moment, especially during the Easter season, was a visit to the Matisse Chapel of the Holy Rosary in neighbouring Vent. Conceived in every detail by Henri Matisse as a thank you to the Dominican Sisters who sustained him in the last years of his life, it is a small but stunning gem. C’est magnifigue, and we wouldn’t have discovered it without Benoit.

Corinne’s talent in the kitchen has not gone unnoticed in Saint-Jeannet where there is a thriving community of Danes (Danish Snowbirds!) and every evening the big kitchen table was full of Danes and their friends. By Danish request one night, Corinne created a wonderful Creole dinner. I think I can still taste the baked bananas in marscapone cream. The evening meal each night was almost a surreal experience – a big international family of people of all ages and mother tongues conversing and laughing together in the one language that has now become defacto – English!

Corinne, who comes from a small island near Madagascar, and Benoit who was homegrown in Saint-Jeannet, actually met as very young exchange students in Australia. After several degrees attained and quite a bit of world travel, they decided their dream was to establish a hospitality business that would provide their visitors with an authentic experience of their beloved Provence while maintaining their own personal commitment to an ethical and green world.

Now beginning their fourth year of operation, their hard work and determination is beginning to pay back monetarily and in the unabashed recommendations they are collecting from fans like Frank and me. Here’s their website for you to enjoy, to bookmark and to make a reservation from. You won’t regret it, for sure!

The Frogs’ House
http://www.thefrogshouse.com/

Bravo, Benoit and Corinne!

LES PÅ NORSK (NORGE)_
2008-12-11 at 06h00
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ELSA again (norway)_
2008-12-10 at 16h14
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2008-12-10 at 16h06
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Angela Day (Kelowna BC Canada)_
2008-09-03 at 21h43
Bonjour Corrine and Benoit! So sorry to have taken so long in writing a review, however we had such a wonderful experience I felt I had to let everyone know what a great place you have in the hills of St. Jeanet! We arrived in Nice on June 17th for the 3nite/4 day sojourn..we were fortunate in that you as hosts were so marvellous, as well as you had a full house, and all of the guests just "clicked" which made for a very entertaining holiday! (Greetings to Angela and Noel and family, and Sally and Charles!) The food was exceptional, even the food we guests prepared one afternoon for our dinner that night!(under the helpful and watchful eye of Corrine!) We enjoyed the walks through St Jeannet,the trips to the markets and vineyards,and the running commentary from Benoit and Corrine. They know the history of this area and it shows! What more can a person ask for, wonderful food, accom. and perfect hosts in a little piece of heaven called St. Jeannet.
Would come back in a heartbeat, and hope I can one day!
Regards to both of you,
Angela Day

Ursula & Marc (Germany, Berlin)_
2008-08-17 at 14h23
Now back some weeks from a fabulous holiday in France (Perigord, Aix, Nice) the stay at the Auberge des Baous was the most impressive one of these two weeks. Corinne and Benoit were warm and genial hosts and the guest house, the rooms, the breakfast (with Corinne's wonderful jam) and the dinner were amazing. We enjoyed the days in St. Jeannet. Thank for all your kindness. All the best. Ursula & Marc