Bastide des Oliviers – Provencal home on an organic olive oil estate

The house forms one wing of the owners’ house so it is semi-detached, forming part of a U round a lawned garden. The house has a homely modern design (as well as air-conditioned bedrooms and a heated pool) within an ancient building dating back to the 1600s.

Living Room: The cosy living room with a dining table has a well-matched blend of modern and antique furniture. The TV has Canal Sat channels, including all French channels, CNN and BBC World.

Kitchen: The kitchen is equipped with a wall-mounted oven, 4-ring gas stove, microwave, American fridge-freezer with ice dispenser, Nespresso and filter coffee machine, washing machine and tumble dryer.

Guest WC: Downstairs guest WC.

All bedrooms are air-conditioned. The house sleeps 6 people in 3 upstairs bedrooms, with 2 bathrooms. Two of the bedrooms can be configured with a choice of a double or two single beds.

Bedroom 1: A double aspect room looking over the view, with either two single beds or a 1.8m/5.25ft-wide double bed.

Bedroom 2: With a 1.4m/4.6ft double bed, writing table and Luberon view to the south.

Bathroom 1: Between bedrooms 1 and 2, with bath and hand-held shower, basin and a separate WC.

Bedroom 3: Can be either with two single beds or a 1.8m/5.25ft-wide double bed. Its small en suite bathroom has a shower, basin and WC.

The house has two outdoor dining tables, both shaded, and a barbecue. The house’s own garden is planted with lawn and trees, and the pool is next to this garden. The property is part of an organic olive oil estate, with fruit orchards too, extending over 11 hectares (27 acres) of fertile Provence land. Your welcome basket includes the produce of this land – olive oil, jams and honey.

The pool is 11m x 5m (36 x 16ft), and is heated from 1 May to 15 October. Around the pool are sunloungers and parasols.

There is plenty of secure, gated parking, and the house is set well back from the road.

Robion is a Luberon village with two faces. As you drive through you see a high street with restaurants, bakeries, butchers, a mini-market and other stores, as well as tennis courts and a playground. This is the new Robion and is very practical and convenient, though not somewhere you would stop to sightsee. But head up one of the streets towards the Luberon mountain and there is another Robion, the old village. This follows the same lines as the typical Luberon village, with winding streets heading up to the church and square. Robion is not really a perched village, but it is worth discovering as a picturesque little village clinging to the foot of the mountain where the mountain is coming to its end.