If some grand hotels feel like a soaring operatic aria, Le Vieux Logis is a masterfully composed piece of chamber music. Located some 45 miles downstream from the high cliffs of the upper Dordogne, this beautiful estate offers a landscape of horizontal peace. The honey-coloured stone buildings—a former 16th-century priory and a collection of old tobacco-drying barns—seem to have grown directly out of the lush water meadows. The real delight of this place is found in the quiet