Directions from Spanish Border (about 3.5 hours driving time) and S.W. France (Beziers, Montpellier etc.)
Take the Autoroute A9 heading east for Nimes and Avignon, and on the outskirts of Nimes at exit 25, take the A54 (E80) for Arles, Salon de Provence and Marseille.
This
joins the A7 just east of Salon de Provence which you take northbound
for Avignon, Orange, Valence, Lyon etc. You then drive for about another
15-20 mins on the A7 to leave* it at the Avignon Sud Exit 24.
[*NB: If you have GPS you may wish to leave the
A7 at the Cavaillon Exit (before Avignon Sud), driving through Cavaillon
itself, and following the L'Isle sur la Sorgue signs until you see Lagnes
on the signs also. But it's a bit more tricky coming that way, and in
particular some guests have got lost coming off the Autoroute]
From there, you want to get onto the D973 heading eastwards for Digne, Sisteron (on the green road signs), and Isle sur la Sorgue and Apt (on the white signs below the green ones).
After about 10 mins driving the D938 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 and about 1 mile after going over a train level crossing,, you will see a sign to the left for our village, Lagnes. 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.