We spent 5 days mid-June in Sainte-Maxime, a delightful, slightly more low-key resort town than St Tropez and its cousin, on the Cote d’Azur. We travelled 90 minutes from the busy port town (with<div class="blog-buttons"><a href="https://tripticks.org/golden-moments-in-sainte-maxime-on-the-cote-dazur/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>
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>