Directions from Avignon Airport (about 25 km and 20 minutes driving time)
Heading out of the small airport, follow the "Sortie" signs which will take you round a very small roundabout and then 100 metres further a larger roundabout (still within the airport areas).
About another 100 metres on you will then join a main road at a large, fast moving roundabout. You want to turn left off the roundabout to head east from there (signed with a Blue Sign on top for the A7; then a Green Sign for Cavaillon and Aix; then a White sign for Apt at the bottom).
After leaving this roundabout, you travel along a fast divided highway that runs past the southern edge of the airport runway for about 3 km
You will then come to 2 roundabouts quite close together where, if you bear to the right hand lane, you avoid having to go around these, and you will get onto the D973 heading eastwards for Digne, Sisteron (on the green road signs), and L'Isle sur la Sorgue and Apt (on the white signs below the green ones).
After about 10 mins driving the D973 branches off to the right towards Cavaillon but you carry straight on going under an overpass and the road becomes the D22 signed still for Isle sur la Sorgue and Apt.
After another few miles, you will go over a railway crossing and about 1.5km further, you will see the sign to the left for our village, Lagnes and Fontaine de la Vaucluse. This will take you northbound through a very small village called Petit Palais, and you just keep northbound through this and after another mile or two you will come to a cross roads where you have to stop at the N100.
Cross straight over the N100 following the signs for Lagnes. Maybe less than 1 mile only, you will drive down a slight hill curving to the left at the bottom of which there is a turn to the right followed by another road to the right immediately after, followed by another turn to the right maybe 50 metres past that. At this 3rd road to the right you will see a signpost that shows Lagnes to the right, with a separate sign for the Auberge de Lagnes 20 yards up the road.
Take this 3rd road and you will be climbing uphill gently at first and then after you enter our small village, the road gets quite steep as you enter a very narrow street after going by an open area and the Auberge/Restaurant on your left. The very narrow street does a hard right turn followed by a left on quite a steep hill.
Just as you start to straighten out into a more open square by a church, you need to turn hard right (and I mean hard right) in front of our local tabac (on the right just past the photo below), the Cafe de la Fontaine. In fact, you pass between the front of the Cafe and 3 or 4 of its outside tables (if you go by our village water fountain, you have gone too far).
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You will see a small
beige sign for "Place du Bataillet" and you then squeeze through
a very tight entrance to our Place between the end of this Cafe and a
tall stone building (see above right photo).
Once through this narrow space and past the Exposition de Lavabo, the
narrow road will open up into a sandy/gravel open area where you can park
(this last bit is only 50 yards or so). Maison Noel faces you from the
middle of the 3 houses on the eastern side of this space (Place du Bataillet).
It is the dry stone faced building with light olive green shutters.