When in Bordeaux...

FORMER SociaI and Personal publisher Nell Stewart-Liberty is these days involved in running a winery and small boutique hotel in a 19th century chateau in Entre Deux Mers in the St Emilion area of France.

Chateau Soussac (www.chateau-soussac.com) is an hour from Bordeaux and Bergerac Airports and it is hoped the new Ryanair service from Cork to Bordeaux in June will increase business for the hotel.

Rates start at €124 for a double room and a three night package (bed, breakfast and two nights dinner) is available from between €240 and €300 per person depending on choice of bedroom – there are only five. A pick-up/drop-off service is offered by the hotel from airports or rail stations in Bordeaux, Bergerac or Toulouse. Additional charge for this.