Just across the border in Ventallo, the Fundacio Perramon is a jewel of a museum displaying over 150 works by contemporary Catalan artists.
Want to give your sun tan a final blast before handing over your hire car and catching your plane in Barcelona? Why not wait on the beach?
We’re driving along the D115 through Ceret (no stopping there today) Amélie and Arles-sur-Tech right up into the Haut Vallespir and over into Spain.
An extraordinary collection of works produced by the crazy, the unattached and the marginal, the Museum of Art Brut is a true delight in this all-too-rational world.
Oops! Our neighbours over the border made a serious miscalculation in the design of their new trains, meaning that they would no longer fit through the tunnels!
Empúries, (coming from the Greek “Emporion” meaning market place or shopping centre) lies midway between the Costa Brava town of L’Escala and the tiny village of Sant Martí. Archeology fans will be in ruins heaven!
If you are resident in France, the chances are you are part of the excellent French health care system, accessed via the trusty carte vitale. But what if you’re travelling abroad this summer? Or any other time, for that matter!
For an alternative route to Girona, or just a very pleasant drive, head up and over the Col de Banyuls from Banyuls sur Mer. Instead of turning left at the bottom of the hill to St Quirze, go straight on….and on and on.
Follow in the tracks of the Tour de France and (re)discover the magic, history and legends of the many P-O towns and villages along the way.
Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) once claimed that Perpignan Railway Station was the “Centre of the Universe, because its waiting room is where he got all his best ideas.”
