Renovated farm ruins in the Livradois Forez natural regional park where there's cycling and horse-riding, though the owners can provide electric bikes if the hills look too much like hard work. The solar-powered guesthouse serves mainly organic food with fruit and veg from the owner's kitchen garden, and evenings are spent sipping homemade elderberry-flower syrup or bramble syrup on the terrace watching the sun set behind the Auvergne volcano range.
Presented on the "Guardian Green Travel List 2010 - http://www.greentraveller.co.uk/content/green-travel-list-full-0