Margaretha Montagu Retreats

Having travelled extensively, mostly on my own, for leisure or in my professional capacity as a medical doctor, I am fully aware of the various challenges a woman travelling on her own has to overcome. When I created Esprit Meraki Retreats here in the southwest of France, more than a decade ago now, my aim was to make my life-enriching French cultural Immersion and life-changing Camino de Santiago walking retreats unique and unforgettable, with everything a single woman traveller could want or need readily available. My medical speciality is stress management, I have also made it the focus of my transformational retreats. Women deal differently with stress than men do, and have different stresses to contend with, which is why my retreats are women-only. Today, together with my all-woman team, I specialise in retreats for single women travellers. Wait, that’s not 100% accurate: my team does include Arcadi, a male Barzoi, Finn, a Friesian stallion and a no-longer-feral cat, Caspar.”