Montpellier, France Travel Blogs

Wrinkly old balls
Oct 8, 2006 (7 photos)

I spent a few days in Cambridge before dashing off to Montpellier, before my first job interview the following Monday. I was going to Montpellier not to see how my brain would handle being jolted from Italian to English and then to French all within the ...

Little Anecdotes and Random Curiosities...
Oct 20, 2008 (14 photos)

... Cheese, the Better A few weeks ago I took a trip to the small village of Roquefort a couple of hours northwest of Montpellier. I was invited by an unusually interesting American couple who are both students at my school. I met Julia in my first class, ...

Montpellier
Sep 8, 2008

... the welcome I was hoping for. I suppose I was off to a bad start when I barely and I mean barely made the train to Montpellier. Thought I gave myself plenty of time in Paris to get to Gare de Lyon, one of the major train stations in Paris. The problem was ...

Montpellier Lost Episode
Oct 14, 2005

***This is a letter I wrote to Kira detailing how I ended up in Montpellier instead of Lyon*** Okay here's what happened: So the plan was that I was supposed to go from London to Lyon from Stansted airport. A swing frined of mine ...

French Riviera
Oct 2, 2007 (6 photos)

... is quite lovely and as lots of new facilities like tram networks and public squares.  They also say that Montpellier is the fastest growing city in France. One thing that I didn't get to see was the rugby stadium.......considering this was a Rugby ...

Another Travel Day
Oct 2, 2006

... have been in so far, so hopefully that means all French trains are good. Our first leg was to the Sothern French town of Montpellier where we are now. We had a three hour wait, but used up most of the time finding some lunch and now using the Internet ...

Marseille
Jul 8, 2009 (1 photos)

Got a ride early, and another one to Montpelier with a Portuguese truck driver. arrived there at 1pm, smoked with a guy at the bus stop in the center of town. went to Mia's joint, I met her whilst traveling last year, hung out, got a decent salad for ...

Montpellier
Dec 13, 2008

It was quite late when I arrived in Montpellier, I had no place to stay and couln't find anything close to the station. Some guy locked himself inside the ticket office and was gesticulating at me to try and help him, I asked some girl to help, the guy ...

Montpellier for One Night
Nov 30, 2008 (8 photos)

... train station, taking a few pictures before departing on the train bound for Port Bou and then connecting to Barcelona. Montpellier seemed like a nice town in the proximity of the train station. Prices were reasonable and there were some facilities that ...

P&V:Top 5 sunniest places in France
Aug 7, 2009 (6 photos)

... include the oldest botanical garden in France, and Saint Pierre Cathedral. The town also hosts the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, an annual summer festival of opera, classical music and jazz, making it a perfect choice for culture vultures. ...

Episode 8: "Son la Vie Française"
Oct 15, 2005

... started to look for hostel numbers when I remembered that I had, oh so cleverly, already writen information concerning the Montpellier Auberges de Jeunesse (Youth Hostel) while I was in Toulouse. So at least one thing was going right followed by a ...

Montpellier
Oct 23, 2008

... to get a connecting train straight to Barcelona, so instead of spending another day in Nice or Barcelona, we had to settle for Montpellier. The lady at the train station hooked us up with a "cheap" two star hotel, and she really talked up the town as ...

MISTRAL WINDS of monstrous proportions!
Jan 20, 2007 (22 photos)

... the knees back to health than destroy them for good. Also, we haven´t seen our families in 3 years. Kurt met us in Montpellier. We´ve been riding separately since Barcelona, and he agreed to come visit our family in Czech. So we boarded some trains, ...

Episode 9: "Kiss It France!"
Oct 17, 2005

... soon regret, but, none the less, completely necessary. And if the passport weren't enough, I also found Lindy Hop in Montpellier, have a place to stay with the Montpellier Lindy Hop organizer (Terrence) and the SUN IS SHINING! "Never saw the sun ...

Montpellier
Jul 15, 2006 (5 photos)

... out to a nice dinner tonight and still stay under 45 Euros for the day. I might even splurge and be forced to buy myself a couple of Magnum bars. After Montpellier, we are off to Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, and Nice where we meet up with Ryan's mom.

South of France, here I am!
Sep 11, 2008 (24 photos)

I am in Montpellier. I have two fabulous hosts, Delphine and Patrizia. I am having so much fun in this wonderful city. I am lucky to have happened upon it. I wish I could stay longer!

French James Bond
Jul 26, 2007 (7 photos)

... ; Sort of like a French James Bond.  Malko likes dancing to reggae.  He's a reggae baby. On s est arrete a Montpellier, juste apres Bordeaux afin de dire bonjour a mes cousins ( Catherine et Edouard) et pour dire bienvenu sur terre a ...

cycling south along the coast to Spain
Jul 30, 2007 (7 photos)

My first week was quite difficult with the wind always blowing from the wrong direction...

You Won't Believe This
Jul 20, 2005 (1 photos)

We actually saw a monkey. The owner was cranking a music box. An angry little girl was collecting money. We've seen it all. We're coming home.

J'aime Montpellier
Jan 27, 2007

Testing

Montpellier
May 19, 2007

we switched trains in Montpellier.

Montpellier
Aug 30, 2008 (9 photos)

... stay in the slow lane. So off we went, after driving at 140km, driving 100km back home will feel really slow. We arrive in Montpellier and after driving around this lovely city three times we now know this city like the back of our hands (I am terrible at ...

Montpellier
Jul 20, 2005

... -shaded by giant leafy trees--perfect oases from the hot summer sun. We spent a lot of time picnicking and sitting on Montpellier's numerous park benches. We saw our first Roman aqueduct in Montpellier. It's amazing to see how the Romans were able to ...

Australia Wins Again !
Sep 24, 2007

ayres rock cafe, mussel man

Montpellier
Mar 28, 1997

Montpellier

Raggamuffin for a week
Oct 12, 2009 (4 photos)

I've spent the last week in Montpellier.  My grandparents moved out of their old apartment into a new one, and gave the old one to my dad.  He is going to rent it out eventually, but for the time being, I was allowed to stay there.  There ...

GTs
Jun 28, 2006 (3 photos)

Good times in Montpellier...

Beware of church paperazzi
Feb 13, 2005 (3 photos)

Greetings from Montpellier! it's Devon Well we arrived here yesterday armed with pages of instructions of things to see and do from Sarah's sister Jessie and friend Roz (thank you!), as well as super helpful hints like "the hostel isn't great, it has co ...

Bastille Day and Le Tour de ChAlli
Jul 16, 2006 (17 photos)

... it mostly has the type of people that have treated us with kindness and been patient with my rusty French. Basically, Montpellier is what I always thought France would be like, and I can't wait to see the rest of it. Our second day in Montpellier was ...

Montpellier
Jul 14, 2006 (12 photos)

Upon arrival to Montpellier we had no accommodations for that night and it being their independence day and Montpellier having the best fireworks show in the nation, we really expected ending up sleeping on the beach. But...with our exceptionally good luck ...