Hotel Vidal Céret
4, place Soutine Céret, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
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2011/2012
... and a couple of overnight stops: (Camping des Etangs de Marsalin near Dreux, and Camping de Chanset on the outskirts of Clermond Ferrand) took us to Camping Le Florida, just south of Perpignan, where we spent 3 nights over New Year.
The weather was sunny and warm, allowing us to enjoy local walks and to revisit old haunts. Thank you, Heather, we did return to the picturesque small town of Collioure. The ...
From one sort of 'mad' to another
From the Modernism that is evident in the architecture in Barcelona to the cubism and surrealism of Dali - all the creative senses have been pushed to their limits.
We left Barcelona early in the morning and headed toward the village of Figueras, where Salvidor Dali was born in 1904.
We went straight to the museum which Dali, himself created to store his work and the works of some of his closest artist friends. The building itself was ...
Waiting for the train home
... travellers. It felt quite a long night with the lights coming in from the window. It was ok and we dozed for some of the night, read for some of it and stared into space for some of it. We awoke somewhat bleary eyed in paris had breakfast and headed for the London Eurostar
The end of a good journey and a month away.
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Olot and Besalu
From Girona, we went a day trip to a couple of towns a bit higher up in the Pyrenees. Our initial hope was to stay for a couple of nights in Olot to use it as a base for a bit of hiking, but our inquiries at the tourist information office quickly made it apparent that a car would be necessary to get around to do the hikes. Not to be dissuaded, we decided to hop on the bus anyway and have a look around.
First up, we went straight to Olot, a town of about 30,000 people in the ...
Perpignan & Collioure - Catalan delights
... is full even at this early hour and we are soon efficiently whisked to the Gard Du Nord.
We have plenty of time and stroll to the Gare de Lyon for the TGV, walking a little farther than needed after misreading a street sign. The Perpignan train is not yet allocated a platform so we decide to find the loo. Because of renovation works this proved to be tucked away in a Portakabin and proves to be an experience. There is a bit of a queue and the cubicles are guarded by a ...


