If you’re lucky, once you get to the airport, there isn’t really that much to say: but sometimes it doesn’t all run quite so smoothly, particularly in winter, and its useful to have a bit of local lingo to find out what’s going on.

WALK THE REGION Le Coronat from Jujols with Mike Rhodes   The spectacular walled town of Villefranche de Conflent is well known to residents of the P-O but above the crags that tower over this…