There’s some weirdness attached to Villages Nature,the Disney-imagineered vision of rustic life, but the waterslides are improbable and there’s lots for kids to do‘I withhold forgetting we’re in France, or ” says Evie,my 14-year-old, sitting external our apartment enjoying the view. I don’t blame her: everything around us is distinctly un-Gallic. From our terrace we can see a wooden pagoda in the middle of a lake fringed with maples. There are palm trees, and rockeries and exotic foliage to our left,glass lakeside apartments and rural woodland ahead of us. whether we’d been kidnapped and dropped here, I’d struggle to guess between a resort in east Asia or a campus university in Surrey.
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Source: guardian.co.uk