Sunday 9th September 2012 Sete to
Perpignan to Paziols, France
Swim at plage near hotel-nice and calm and pleasant
temperature. Quite a few people in water, some in dive gear heading further out
with fishing spears. Took down boot cover and put up cargo net in back of
Kangoo and repacked our gear ready for Rod and Helens luggage when we pick them
up in Perpignan tonight.
Before leaving the town we went for drive around beach area, quite a
lot of new development, bit ugly and gruesome though. Tried to get down to old town but baffled by
one way streets, view from up on the hill shows old town probably quite nice. Lots
of people up hill from cruise ship moored down town.
Drove through country side for an hour or so without
any GPS, just following roads on Google maps. Very pleasant and stopped at car
boot sale near a small town where Lynds bought an old fashioned key and a polka
dot TDF rider model.
Then onto motorway and down to Perpignan by about
5pm, found temporary park on the old station side and then took some time to
locate the proper carpark.
(Note re TomTom –the voice we have selected is
computer generated so it can read warnings but we suddenly realised today how
bad her French pronunciation is when she kept saying the name of the town as
Per Pig Nan)
Sat in square and had a beer and read “The Guardian
Weekly” while waited for the train. Only discovered the new side of the station
as we went to find platform where the train from Narbonne would arrive.
Then right on time at 6.36 pm the train arrived
carrying with it our Devonport friends Helen and Rod Cornelius who had just
travelled overnight from Philadelphia,
plane across Atlantic to Frankfurt, another plane to Toulouse, train
from Toulouse to Narbonne and then Narbonne to Perpignan. So nice to see them.
Then we piled into the Kangoo for the short journey to Paziols.
However due to the fact that the D117 motorway was
closed (and apparently has been for some time) and our TomTom didn’t know about it the trip took us at
least 1 ½ hours and we apparently took
the long way around through Tuchan, which is to north of Paziols..
Warm welcome and beautiful dinner waiting for us at
“La Fontaine” from Gay, Sally and Jackie,
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