The arboreal playground The Happy Forest, just 5 minutes north of Agen, offers swingers young and old a dizzying array of tree-top adventures: 136 different challenges spread over 10 courses graded, like ski slopes, into four colour-coded degrees of difficulty: 3 green courses (for kids between 3 and 7), and for older children and adults there are 4 blue courses, 1 red, and 2 hair-raising black courses.

For the youngsters the Happy Forest’s petting zoo presents a Noah’s Ark of small farm animals which can be caressed and fed, to varying degrees: nine different species of hen, roosters, goats, rabbits, donkeys, Chinese pigs, Barbary ducks, as well as a small troupe of Shetland ponies.