The little-known French region where the Danish Royals holiday also happens to have bargain-priced holiday homes.
”We used to see the princes, Frederik and Joachim, running down these streets when they were little,” a local resident tells me as we top up our glasses from a carafe of chilled rosé under the early evening sun. It’s late summer 2023 and there’s a holiday buzz in the air in Montcuq-en-Quercy-Blanc — a long name for a small village in the Lot, a department in south-west France where we are fortunate to have a holiday home.
Now, when I open up our lounge room doors to a gently sloped field of sunflowers huddled around a tiny church made from local “stone, a buttercream-coloured limestone, I still pinch myself that, out of all of France, we stumbled upon this. There’s something calming about the gentle dovecote-dotted countryside, which is far from the drama of the Cote d’Azur’s plunging alpine cliff faces and eagle’s nest villages.
It’s a tradition Margrethe has continued, even after her husband died in 2018. According to local chat, she arrives with little fanfare, flying into Toulouse’s Blagnac airport where her late husband’s former secretary waits to collect her by car for the two-hour drive north. Also known as Albas la Jolie , the village lives up to its name, a photogenic explosion of iguana-green foliage jostling against worn stone houses along the riverbank. Surveying the scene is an old bishop’s palace, newly planted with a tranquil Tuscan garden, an Italian region this part of the country has been likened to.My pick of the villages clinging to the river bank, however, is Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, a medieval village so idyllic it could be a Disney set.
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