Welcome to Simply Canvas Farm, a small scaled holiday destination with 6 safari tents and 3 cottages on 12.5 acres of land. We are calmly situated on the edge of the Dordgone and Lot et Garonne surrounded by vineyards and sunflowers. You will find out place to be all about taking care of nature. Fresh bread for breakfast is included during your stay (you don't get that everywhere), several times a week you can sign up for lovely meals with produce from the garden. There are farm animals and even the safari tents have their own little veggie garden. Of course there is a large enclosed pool. We are close to Bergerac on the edge of the Lot et Garonne and Dordogne in SW France In the summer months we receive families and the children are friends as from day one. We cook child friendly and at the end of every week we have a campfire with marshmallows and put a wish in our wish tree. We chose for large safari tents of 9 by 7 meters including a large veranda and spaciously scattered over the land. There is electricity, simple cooking facilities and your own private bathroom on a few meters distance. We are situated on the border of the Dordogne and Lot et Garonne in South West France only 30 minutes from Bergerac. The four larger and charming bastide villages; Eymet, Miramont, Duras and Ste Foy la Grande are all within 10-15 min. away. Here you find large supermarkets, great fêtes de villages, farmer’s markets, restaurants and shops. Our area is sometimes referred to as the Tuscany of France and there are lots of things to do. Do you like wine? There is more than enough choice in wine chateaus all very close by. You can canoo or swim in the Dordogne river close by (20min.). An enormous big castle (chateau de Bridoire) filled with medieval games (15min), a great swim lake with large slide and beach (30 min.). But also the famous Saint Emilion (45min) or the elegant Bordeaux (1.5h) make lovely day outings.

It is a winding road how we end up together. Santi was born in Laos and went to France as a baby, Sandra was born in The Netherlands. In a Buddhist monastery in France we finally met. First as friends and only years later as a couple. It has been a long road filled with dreams how we finally ended up with creating Simply Canvas. And now years later we are still equally happy with it as during the start. All our capacities and longings find their place here. We have lost our heart to living in the countryside. We enjoy sharing our place with guests. Our passion for gardening can go a long way on 12.5 acres of land. We are developing our land to the principles of permaculture. We enjoy the diversity in our lives where part of the year we receive guests and meet lots of new people and during the winter months our inner hermit gets a place when we can emerge ourselves in the silence of the country side. Then Sandra has time to write and ponder in front of the fire place or plant some trees and Santi will invent some new chicken coop, plays with his fish or one of his games (yes he is a secret gamer) and we go out for lots of cups of coffee at the local cafe with croissants of course.

Top ten things to do in the area: Farmers market in medieval Duras and visit its big castle Stay in, enjoy the pool and swing in a hammock Go for dinner to Eymet with its beautiful medieval square For the entire family: go climbing in the forest at Saint Colombe de Duras Wine tasting in one of the many wine chateaus around Go to Chateau the Bridore, a beautiful castle filled with medieval games Swim at swim lake Lougratte Go for a day canooing on the Dordogne and of course swim in the river Stay in the last night and have a meal with us then we will light the campfire, roast marshmallows and put a wish in the tree. Organise a ping pong tournament at our place or volleyball, or soccer