Camping La Perle

From the site, get stuck into hiking and cycling among 2,500 kilometres of trails around the area’s crackingly scenic countryside, or if you’re an avid angler, bring along your fishing kit to take down with you to the banks of the Creuse river, which flows peacefully around a kilometre away from Camping La Perle. Those of a golfing persuasion, you’re in luck too: you’ll be able to proudly don your obligatory checked-pants-plus-snazzy-jumper combo and head over to Gouzon, half an hour’s drive away, for putts among an 18-hole course of 120 hectares. A short drive away there's UNESCO-listed Aubusson village, famed for its tapestry-making heritage; spend half a day pottering around its narrow cobbled streets gawping up at its hugely handsome historic buildings and exploring its tapestry museum. If you’re in the area on a Friday, a flea and farmers' market is in Felletin, 20-minutes’ drive away, for procuring local produce and precious local bargains too. Should the kids not quite yet be of the history-appreciating age/antique-hunting persuasion, take them instead to Aubusson’s fab indoor pool complex to set them off happily whooshing down waterslides – the added bonus is that it’s got something for grownups too, as it’s cleverly been kitted out with a sauna and a hammam to get all steamily relaxed among.