Exhalation
Updating : 15/06/2006
To appreciate the lavender country with both your heart and your five senses, nothing is better than settling there in a quasi total immersion stay. This is what the charming hôtel, La Badiane offers, right in the heart of the Baronnies region in Drôme provençale.

La Badiane is a former sheep barn restored and arranged in an imperceptibly oriental style, we are in the South and, resolutely nowhere else! Look at the bedrooms, for example, they are all different but decorated in a very far South spirit. So, you will have the choice between the Meridian, the Moroccan, the Provençale, the Tuscany, the Colonial and the Natural!
In this dreamy place, you are invited to total well-being. Meals are served on a shady terrace, under the pergola which invites your eyes to seek the surrounding lavender fields. We can breathe!
The cooking is, of course Mediterranean inspired. You can find there the local asparagus bundles, crystallized tomatoes, tagines, and also local wines: Tavel, Côteaux des Baronnies, Rasteau, Cairanne and Vinsobres...
Painting amateurs, and all those dreaming about trying their hand at the easel, will be delighted with the lavender colour stay proposed at the end of June.

It is Muriel, artist and professional painter, who takes participants to discover Giono's landscapes, and Cézanne's traces, and, must we remind you, this year it is the hundredth anniversary of his death.
All kinds of techniques are applied to restore the pictorial universe of lavender; water colours, pastel, ink, acrylic, oil and even the use of dyeing plants and lavender in the paint. A whole day outdoors is scheduled with a picnic lunch.
You will also be able to profit from the panoramic swimming pool, the hammam and the sauna with relaxing essential oils. Why not also a complete and relaxing massage; to end in beauty a stay in lavender country, the place where the miraculous plant is absolutely everywhere.
Practical
Hôtel La Badiane - Hameau de Ruissas
26170 Montauban sur l'Ouvèze
Tel.: 04 75 27 17 14
Séjour Couleur Lavande - Lavender Colour Stay 7 days/6 nights from Sunday June 25th (after 16h) to Saturday July 1st 2006 (before 12h) 670 euros per person on a 2 people basis, half-board.
Other dates to be proposed for Autumn 2006. They will be online on the La Badiane website at the beginning of the summer.
Muriel Harlaut's paintings and photos exhibition will take place in the La Badiane panoramic room from June 24th to August 31st.
To discover the other training courses of the Art de Vivre workshops:
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