"Having booked our stay with Patrick over the web we already had a good feeling about our proposed stay, needless to say we were not disapointed. After being greeted by both Shaun and Patrick and several glasses of the pink stuff we knew that we had made a good choice. On our second day after some local site seeing and visits to Chateaux's we were invited to an evening meal with Shaun, Patrick and our other new aquaintances staying at Le Clos Rabelais, a great time was had by all and much pink stuff consumed. In fact after visiting friends in La Rochelle and the weather still doing its worst (overcast and rain) we rebooked with Shaun for two more nights on the way home and a great time was had by all. We will deffinitley be returning to France and the Loire, and staying with Shaun and Patrick. "