Location

Château de Bardies,  Bardies, nr. Montesquieu Avantès, 09200 St-Girons, Ariège, France. +33(0)5 61 66 97 48 Bardies is a tiny hamlet less than 15 minutes from the market town of St-Girons and historic St-Lizier, in the department of Ariège. We are about one hour’s drive due south from Toulouse, and about an hour and a half from Carcassonne.

How to Get There

By Air:
British Airways (Gatwick – Toulouse)
easyJet (Gatwick – Toulouse, Bristol - Toulouse)
Ryanair (Stanstead – Carcassonne)
Air France (Southampton – Toulouse, change at Paris)

By Road:
About 9 hours driving time from Cherbourg or Caen (Brittany Ferries from Portsmouth)
About 10 hours from Calais (P&0 from Dover or Eurotunnel)
(Timings are estimates for cars. 1970s Transit vans may take a little longer....)

Here's an interactive Google map. Please note, that at the risk of upsetting the nice folk at Google, it has to be said that whilst their map is cool (good internet-savvy word) you might find the Bardies home-grown version reflects more intimate local knowledge. Click on the link below:

Driving directions from Toulouse, Carcassonne and St-Girons