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 the most chaotic traffic we have ever seen) of Toulon to Sainte-Maxime in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur department in the l’Aquittane region. We stayed in the nifty little Hotel Le Revest (super friendly owners and a little […]
Corsica is known as the ‘Island of Beauty’ and I’d add an adjective in there – the ‘Island of terrifying Beauty’ due to the crazy roads carved high but not deep in the jagged mountain tops, which are the only means to access the beauty of the island (the seaside and mountain villages, beaches and hiking trails). There is a little train that runs between some of the major towns […]
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 just Spanish however, It started out as the capital of the Kings of Mallorca – and the palace they built (Le Palais des Rois de Majorque) is still standing and in good nick today. The region […]