The bay at Portbou. There was a beautiful little walk along the rocky seaside here. It made for a nice mid-day stop on the way to Colliure and then Perpignan.
Colliuore was trés picturesque. The old part of town was alleys and walkways of a hilly and colorful seaside town. I took more than twenty photos of just colored houses. The church boasted a lighthouse tower and the chateau or castle, slightly in ruins, had been built-up over centuries of French-Spanish disputes. Adri eagerly read me all of the history of the disputes and complementary new additions to the castle on the tour.
One of the small mountain towns, not yet arriving to Prádes.
A few photos from a mid-October weekend excursion to southern France. We saw Portbou unprecedently, the Spanish border town, because the trains in France were shut down due to a general strike protesting the change of retirement age. We had planned to see several different towns the next day as well and only made it to two. But the Pyrenees are lovely, good wine, French people, brioche (my favorite French sweet pastry aside from "Pan au chocolate"), and small towns with medieval architecture in a mountain backdrop. I went with my flatmate, Adrià, who makes an entertaining traveling partner.
I just love the way you spell French words. I really do.
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