The moisture in the banks of the Bonnieure provide ideal ground for wild buttercups, campanula, bluebells and wild lilies to thrive. There is a bar/restaurant in the village, which renowned for its good home cooking, with no frills, in an authentically rustic setting.
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RAIL:
The TGV (0870 584 8848 www.raileurope.co.uk).
Connects Lillie or Paris, Montparnasse with Angoulême. From Angoulême, Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure is half-an-hours drive away, along the N141.
AIR:
Ryan Air (www.ryanair.com) have cheap daily flights into Limoges and on certain days into Angouleme. And from Belfast to Bordeaux.
Flybe also have flights from Southampton to Limoges (www.flybe.com)