- lounge around in the sun (garden facing due south, swimming pool..),
 
- read (regionalist library, documentation),
 
- live out your passions (hiking, jogging, cycling, scambling, canoeing, horse-riding, fishing, golf),
 
- go sight seeing (historic castles, "bastides", medieval towns, churches),
 
- rediscover well-known persons (the pope Clément V, the Queen Margot, Montesquieu, Toulouse-Lautrec, Mauriac),
 
- enjoy prestigious wines (vineyard properties, Houses of the wines of Graves, Barsac / Sauternes, Premières Côtes de bordeaux et Cadillac),
 
- taste the southwest cooking and the vines of local producers at the table d'hote dinners.