Collioure

Woke up in Perpignan with a frozen painful left hand, I think from typing furiously all the way down on my iPad keyboard  - hope it’s not arthritis!  We walked the short walk to the station, bought a ticket, discovered the trains were on strike (thought it was quiet). The ticket was valid on a bus…that we saw driving away.  So we got a taxi to Collioure. 

A totally lovely seaside town, by far the quietest I have ever seen In Mediterranean France.  There is no modern building on the hills in fact vineyards for Banyuls wines grow right down to the town’s edge which might have saved it. There are four or five sandy pebbly beaches in the town and we swam from one after lunch.  What joy to be back in the Med.

Hotel lovely and central and the town is dominated by an 800 year old castle built by those pesky Knights Templar and there are forts and towers on the surrounding hills.  This picture is taken from the castle not of the castle.  

Dinner at a fish restaurant with a superb view and walked home through the town