Six of us are hanging out in an amazing house in the obscure, little French village of Nizas.

Here is the link to where we are.

And the amazing thing about it?

The photos (below the photo of the woman in a bikini) are a realistic representation of what the place looks like.

Generally, these sorts of real-estate photos are carefully staged to represent some weird moment in time, when things were cleaner/brighter/newer than before or since.

And, generally, the house next to the 300-year-old church is equally as ancient, and probably in awful shape because it’s just too darn old.

But the people who own and improved this property (Britons, apparently), spent a lot of time in it and made approximately 10,000 improvements … did a heck of a job.

Enormous, for a building in the center of an old French village. Lots of outdoors space, a pool, plants everywhere, the four real bedrooms, the three-and-a-half-and-a-half baths …

The main room is not as light as the photo on the website would indicate; it actually is a dark space because the only window faces onto a narrow medieval street.

But the rest of it. It looks like that. Right down to the plates and the table cloths and the view.

And it’s way, way cheaper to house six people, per night, in this place than any decent hotel would be. (As if any major hotel would be located in the midst of Languedoc vineyards.)

Our only regret is that we could not find another couple of people who had the time and energy to come down and use the fourth bedroom.

Truth in advertising. Wow.