Best Western Park Hotel Perpignan

... to be less rich and instead of flowers lining the ends of the rows of vines there were now cactus everywhere. Down the other side of the hill took us to a restored 13th century windmill amongst olive groves.

We headed down to Dan’s Yacht at 6pm and over a few bottles of wine we found out what Dan’s story was. He’s a fisherman in Alaska and works between 3-6 months of the year as a skipper on a fishing boat. The rest of ...

... woo! im (nic) finding the being rather stinky and dirty side of things a bit tough, it was only yesterday that we did our first proper wash of our clothes eeewwe! tan lines coming a long nicely.

been eating loads of pain au chocolat and french bread avec cheese so are certainly not wasting away!

hopefully we can write again soon, sorry it took ages but everything is tres bon :)
love nic and tom xxx

... bottle here, i am referring to a 1.5 liter plastic bottle), and 2 bottles of red. Plus a real bottle of champagne for good measure. Geez, hes so forward thinking....

right, he's back from the shopping now, so time to go, talk more at the next time we have internet (btw, never spent so much time at McDonald's in my life, but they seem to be the only guarenteed place to get wifi in France, go figure!)....

... the sun the i definetly recommend this for you kids ,adults,uncles,aunties,
grannys and grandads.

Arrived Banyuls around 3.30 yesterday afternoon. Spending the next couple of days in Collioure soaking up the sun and relaxing until my flight home on Wednesday. Will plan to update the blog in detail when I arrive home.

Cheerio for now
Amanda x

... beach.

The crew pulled up anchor and left for Marseille around 1 PM just before we sat down for lunch. The captain wanted to get to Marseille before the approaching storm hit us and before the wind whipped up too many waves. No one was allowed to go on deck with the weather the way it was, except for the crew who were required to wear a life jacket, and a Man Over Board sensor and beacon. There are two sets of ...

Hi Gang
I've just passed a sign which informed me Perpignan is 41kms away. Perpignan is from where I will fly back to Blighty next week. Yesterday morning at around 2200 metres I was pretty such I could see the Meditterean, pretty exciting stuff. My remaining time on the GR10 has been a blast, although I've been pretty rubbish at keeping my diary up-to-date. Let's think...

Both Jean and I travelled to Montpellier to stay with his folks ...

... The main roads look alot like any other beach town. But the whole place has a really shady feel to it. There are tons of homeless people walking around doing their own wierd things. Its funny to see so many homeless people here, because I didn't see so many in Northern Europe.

We tried biking to Ille-sur-Tet to see the ...

The purpose of our stop off in Perpignan was to get us as close to the Spanish border as possible. We weren't expecting much...didn't really get much either. Wait, not true. A bird did poop on Joel on our afternoon stroll. We basically spent our one day in Perpignan bumming around town and caught an early train to Figueras, Spain the next morning. Our last night in France wasn't especially eventful, but, we had a month in Spain to look forward to. Just a few pics to share.