Camping Le Douvet

Especially well suited to kids, the Lacs de Haute Charente adventure park is 10 minutes’ drive from the site for dizzying bungee jumps and rope courses through the treetops. If the trails here have the whole family wanting to zonk out afterwards, the beaches of Lac du Mas Chaban are 10 minutes away – and watersports lessons including sailing, windsurfing and canoeing are on hand here too if there’s still some energy left over... Parents can get some culture in at Chabanais, a small village 15 minutes from Camping Le Douvet with the 13th-century Church of Saint-Michel and 16th-century Saint-Michel house to have a look at after walks around the surrounding Vienne valley. If the city’s calling, Limoges is 45 minutes away for the porcelain displays in the Adrien Dubouché National Museum and the sight of old timber-covered houses along the Rue de la Boucherie. In Angoulême, also a 45-minute drive (and slightly to the west of stunning Périgord Limousin Natural Regional Park), guests can go and stare at the Romanesque-style cathedral.