Perpignan is a French town that used to be Spanish! And you can definitely feel the Catalan /Spanish influence in the food, the language, the architecture and the historical monuments around town. Perpignan wasn’t<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/discover-the-spanish-side-of-france-in-perpignan/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>
We spent a week in Mauroux, a tiny hamlet on the Lot river, in early May and discovered a dozen incredibly beautiful bastides, chateaus and fortified towns in the area. A quick word on<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/a-dozen-dazzling-french-towns-in-the-lot-and-dordogne/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>
We had a little apartment for our wonderful week in Toulouse in the Saint Cyprien district on the gauche side of the Garonne river, which according to the apartment owner used to be a<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/lose-your-heart-to-toulouse-and-terrific-surrounding-towns-in-spring/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>