It’s no secret that human activities have a very negative influence on the state of our climate and our planet.

There is an urgent need for everyone to take care of our irreplaceable common heritage through their daily actions.

For our part, we have been trying for several years to reduce our ecological footprint, both in the restaurant and in the hotel, through small, simple gestures.

In the restaurant, we’ve been favouring short circuits and ‘home-made’ food for years: we’re lucky enough to have excellent local producers of meat, eggs, dairy products, fruit and vegetables… on whom we rely to offer you cuisine with a local flavour. We don’t serve hamburgers or nuggets with chips: instead, you’ll enjoy a duck breast or leg of duck confit, or a fine piece of Limousin beef accompanied by sautéed potatoes and seasonal vegetables!

As for breakfast, we’ve abandoned the individual packs of powdered sugar, chocolate and honey: they’re self-service next to the cereal dispensers and the fruit bowl. Even the spreads are homemade!

At the hotel, we have decided to abandon disposable plastic glasses in favour of cups that we wash every day.

To improve the comfort of our rooms without resorting to air conditioning, an ecological aberration if ever there was one, we re-insulated the attic and installed insulating blinds and shutters (in addition to double glazing) to combat the heat.

To meet the objective of reducing electricity consumption set by legislation, for the winter period during which electric heating is essential, we installed a system that limits the temperature in the bedroom to 21°5c (despite the usual recommendations, 18°c seemed to us to be uncomfortable for some people…): the set temperature of the electric convector heaters is 21.5° maximum and they switch off automatically once the temperature of 21°5c has been reached. In the bathroom, the convector set point cannot exceed 22°C.

What’s more, when you open your bedroom window, it automatically switches off all the electric convectors.

We’ve also made a choice that some may find retrograde, but which we fully accept: we don’t put duvets in our bedrooms!

Why did we do this? One duvet cover represents 2 flat sheets: having duvets meant that we had to wash a third more bed linen, and therefore a corresponding increase in the amount of water, detergent and energy needed for cleaning. And the hotel doesn’t have two or three rooms: we have 23 rooms! Choosing sheets instead of duvet covers means we can reduce the hotel’s carbon footprint by limiting the amount of energy, water and detergents used on a daily basis. You will therefore find the traditional bedspreads, blankets and flat sheets in our rooms, even if this is contrary to the current trend.

Thanks to funding from ADEME and the Plan France Relance, we have been able to reduce our environmental impact, mainly in terms of water consumption, by changing various washing equipment and flushing mechanisms, and electricity consumption by changing refrigeration equipment.

That’s it, we’re going to stop here our inventory of small daily gestures for the planet: we could add the maintenance of the garden without pesticides or phytosanitary products, the sorting of our waste, the making of our compost, the recycling of used equipment, the installation of photovoltaic panels, etc…

Sorting bins are available in the courtyard of the hotel so that you can dispose of your waste according to its type: glass, recyclable, compostable or final waste.

We hope you will understand and share our approach: we welcome any suggestions you may have to help us in our eco-citizen approach.