In the mood for gentle beauty from the French countryside and maybe a few Old World interiors? These fantasy-level gardens while magical don’t make our wee patches of dirt less special. It’s all perspective. I mentioned practicing delight HERE, and it’s easy for me to find delight in the garden. Maybe you’ll discover a bit in the encouraging quotes below. This Provence vacation rental from Haven In delivers fragrant inspiration on a virtual breeze from South of France.
French Château Fantasy Gardens & Interiors
The grand 18th-century Provence manor, Château Mireille is a breathtaking and luxurious vacation rental available through Haven In.
Does travel to the South of France or a luxurious villa seem the stuff of silly dreams?
It feels like a more realistic idea now that my husband and I are slowing our careers down.
However, with inflation and the expense of travel is a great luxury indeed.
Where is This Stunning Property?
Located 10 minutes from St-Rémy-de-Provence, a stay at this historical French home would certainly be the thrill of a lifetime for admirers of South of France timeless tranquility!
The traditional style French country interiors include seven bedrooms on three floors, but who could stay inside very long? I think my preference would be to visit shops and sites beyond the chateau and then relax in the gardens all afternoon.
Relax? I continue to try to try to live the truth of the quote from Jeff Foster. The truth is, like a lot of folks who become obsessed with productivity, it is not easy to feel safe at rest.
I have never been able to nap, and I just heard that the science reveals folks who nap have larger brains.
Wise quotes about rest and self-kindness show up on this blog since I need reminders.
Beautiful French Country Bastide: St-Rémy-de-Provence
Château Mireille boasts all the Old World Provençal French countryside charm one dreams of.
Haven In’s beautiful Provençal vacation home at the foot of the Massif des Alpilles, is ideally situated within easy access to St-Rémy-de-Provence in the heart of Provence.
What to expect from the village? Fall in love, be charmed by friendly locals and also daily markets. Enjoy festivals and celebrations too.
Even if you are far from Provence, I hope you are discovering sources of beauty this summer. It’s so important to keep nurturing yourself with it. If you have chronic illness as I do, it becomes perhaps even more important as medicine.
What to do near this beautiful vacation rental?
A blogging pal who resides in Southern France and authors the beautifully written Taste of France told us:
“Saint-Rémy-de-Provence is such a sweet town. If you go, be sure to check out the table d’hôte (so not quite a restaurant–there’s no menu to choose from; you take what’s served) at a house built into a cave in a former Roman quarry. Just past the asylum where Van Gogh stayed.” Read about it RIGHT HERE.
“Just past the asylum?” So interesting! When I read that word I am aware of its multiple meanings:
1.
the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee.
“she applied for asylum and was granted refugee status”
2.
an institution offering shelter and support to people who are mentally ill.
“he’d been committed to an asylum”
There’s something poignant in each definition for these strange modern times. We all need more unplugged time and more rest.
Rest?
Lovely Timeless French Château Photos: Loveliness Near Château Mireille
Since the area is home to so many charming cafés, restaurants, and historic sites, you’ll be treated to a setting of cobblestone streets and also authentic architecture.
You can also sense the coolness and quietness of this bath with all the stone.
Can you practically feel the warm sunshine on your skin as you smell the rich earth?
A stay at Château Mireille would likely include exploration of the lush landscape and mountains, now classified as the Parc Naturel Régional des Alpilles (Alpilles Region Natural Park).
Is sipping a sublime French wine more your style than hiking?
The chateau’s location is perfectly located near wonderful French wine producers.
Is it just me or is it an awesome feeling to be exhausted from weeding, pruning, and tidying garden beds? What a noble fatigue that is! To be greeted by a newborn fawn in the yard as it happens occasionally here? What delight to gaze at each other. To allow your heart to still and fill with beauty for the seconds before alarm. This is surely a taste of the Divine. What a blessing this prairie ground can become Eden, alive and fresh with innocence on an ordinary day when the world is on fire.
Lovely Timeless French Château Photos: Breathtaking Gardens
While I don’t have formal or sculpted gardens as we see here in Provence:
Does the shape or size of our Edens matter? A container of fresh herbs fragrantly thriving in a kitchen window can connect us in meaningful ways with Mother Earth.
Because technology shapes our lives in significant and undetectable ways, it’s more important than ever to seek unplugged connection to each other and the earth.
Lovely Timeless French Château Photos: Ancient Statuary & Fountain
What does a parade of photos of bucolic French gardens have to do with soul talk?
Body and mind are a miraculous duo. Without physically being in the South of France, my senses can still be calmed; my heart can open to mystery in a spirit of unknowing.
Answers to the Big questions? Maybe they are hiding in plain sight.
Each new day we can make more space for enlightenment not by THINKING ABOUT enlightenment but by living it with our embodied YES to the ordinary of our life.
There is a current on this flow I sense flowing from a hidden source of delight and freedom. What obstacles inhibit the flow? What bitterness and resentment remain?
Lovely Timeless French Château Photos: Pool Paradise!
Who do we become when we open to the heartbreak and depth of love that long for fuller expression in our lives?
Thoughts on Healing & Wounds
I have wrestled with thoughts of healing and woundedness over the last 16 years. Yet I am only now sensing how healing is already present, not scarce, and not eager to depart.
As long as I start and end each day with an open, broken, aching heart aligned with LOVE, I can align with healing. Will this alignment break throughout the day? Yes. Can I can keep returning, returning, returning to Love like a prodigal? Like a beggar? Like a rose opening to the sun?
Living with visible wounds is but a doorway. An entrance for humility. An opportunity to be in relationship with all good things on the planet.
My wounds may become permeable, hollowed out, fruitful spaces where flow can flow. What a consolation that rest can replace striving when a surrendered sieve of a soul becomes a dark sky pierced by stars, a place where thoughts and dreams are re-made.
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Peace to you right where you are.
-michele
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