The lodging can accomodate from one to six people, pets are also welcome.
Ground floor:
Lobby corridor.
Kitchen (35 m²) : cooker with gas, cooking material, fridge, oil-fired
stove.
Living room (35 m²) : couch, armchairs, TV + video tape recorder, oil-fired
stove.
Old stable: easy storage of kayaks, canoes, bicycles, motor bikes, etc.
and and old workshop.
Raised garden: pieces of furniture for the garden (6 people), parasol, barbecue.
Floor:
Room (20 m²): queen bed, wardrobe, electric radiator.
Room (35 m²): queen bed, 2 bunk beds, 2 wardrobes, crib/cot, electric
radiator.
Shower-room: shower, sink, WC, electric radiator.
Equipment:
The house includes all the necessary equipment to spend a pleasant weekend
or more.
Only the bath towels, as well as those for the washing up, the bed sheets
(mattress covers, pillowcases, duvet fitted sheets), are not provided.
Beds have pillows, duvets (continental quilts) and blankets.
A bit of History:
The house as it is today would be dated around the end of the 17th century,
begin of the 18th. The house has the typical style of the traditional house
of this part of the country.
The foundations would be older, they have been compared to the Roman Villa
of Vesqueville (A. Malthys – Archéologica Belgica 159), the
way they are buried on the garden’s side would be an evidence of it.
The three-cells model: humans, live stock, reserves: all under the same
slate roof, the hood, called the « tchépo » allowed to
do farm work protected from the bad weather.
Inside, we find the same intelligence: the opening are on the Southern
side, the large open fire was warming the « pel » through the
cast-iron plate (or contrecœur). This one deserves some explanation:
it has been made in Orval during the Jansenist period (1st quarter of the
18th century).
In the central part, the three theological virtues: Faith, eyes covered;
Hope, the anchor; and Charity, a burning hart. The four other women are
the cardinal virtues: Force (column), Justice (sword), Temperance (cup),
Prudence (mirror and snake). The sentence "Ardet Amans Spe Nixa Fides":
The Faith supported by Hope burns from the fire of Charity.
Why is this cast-iron plate reversed? The only reason we have found would
be linked to the French Revolution, no house was allowed to bear religious
signs, but getting rid off such a good cast-iron plate was not the kind
of thing we do in the Ardenne, it would have then been reversed, waiting
for better days.
Have a good stay!
Kayak: the Semois river passes in front of the
house and a landing stage is at less than 30 m.
Easy storage of several kayaks and/or canoes in the stable.
Descent of the Semois by kayak: possible hiring at 400 m of the lodging
at the Tourism Office (Syndicat d'initiative, S.I.) of Cugnon.
Moutain bike: many possibilities of excursions
in diverse types of fields
Hiring available at 400m from the lodging at the S.I. of Cugnon
Fishing
The Semois passing in front of the house, nothing is easier than practicing
this sport (while following the regulations in force in the Walloon Region).
The pike and lots of other species are numerous. The site is next to "la
Noue ", a spawning ground which begins a reserve being spread out over
400 meters of river.
Many places to walk
Bowling
Karting
Swimming pool
Horse riding
Multisports
Ski touring
