LA PASTORELLE 

Homestay in Darwin

   Hello,  or Gooday!

We are Maryelle and Paul Bérard
We offering guest rooms in a colonial style house surrounded by a large garden
in the middle of a 8 hectares ( 20 acres) property.
We have two linked bedrooms :
Bedroom 1 with : two single beds(900 wide),ceiling fan,airconditionner,sink:
Bedroom 2 with : a double bed (1400 wide)and ceiling fan
To share:
Bathroom/ toilet     Fridge     Clock/radio     Ironing board & Iron     Outside Barbecue
Complementary Tea &Coffe on the verandah.     Push bikes.     Petanque bowls and Petanque track

We serve the continental breakfast on the verandah, an also dinner on demand.
We are both French and Australian also and we shall be very pleased to look after you. We offer you a stay with "La Difference". Paul has lived in Darwin for 30 odd years and Maryelle 10 years, which gives us a pretty good knowledge of the Territory.

We are 4Km from a Supermarket, Pub, Chemist, Newsagent and Fast food outlets

If you want to see the local Flora and Fauna of the Northern Territory of Australia , then come to Humpty Doo !
We are  located 35 Km South of Darwin, Next town : Alice Springs 1459 Km, Ayers Rock  close to 2000Km and then  Adelaide at 3570 Km.

 Coming from South East Asia. Darwin is closer to Singapore than Melbourne or the Great Barrier Reef
 
 
 
 

Located on a dirt track, in a cul de sac your peace will only be disturbed by the native birds feeding on Hibiscus or  Grevillea flowers. Or maybe by the screetching Cacatoes in the gum trees.
 
All year round, you can have breakfast outside on the verandah,or relax on the swing surrounde by orchids,ferns and palm trees or else have a game of Pétanque (French Bowls) with a Pastis (Maryelle is the president of the Darwin Pétanque Association ).
  You can also stroll around the property and see some wallabys or goannas
or simply feed the barramundis in the pond.
 The history of the house goes back to the 1937 cyclone which destroyed Darwin,well before the 60 bombardments of 1942-43 and " The " cyclone Tracy of 1974.   High ceilings,  les louvres and fans reflect the tropical atmosphere of the bush, without dispensing with the mod cons of airconditionned rooms to stay cool.

It has been suggested to me to list all the birds around us, but a quick count reaches 60 differents types. But my favorites are the black cacatoes, and all the different corellas during the day , And at night the owls and the crying curlews.
 
 


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