Travel 2016 – Tip 22 – France – Collioure

This tip refers to the Catalan town of Collioure, which is on the Cote Vermeille. The Côte Vermeille is a region in the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales, near the border with Spain. The Côte Vermeille stretches from Argelès-sur-Mer to the border village of Cerbère.

The French Railways are no longer on strike, so it only took 65 minutes to travel from Narbonne to Collioure on the train. There was a cloudburst when I arrived, so I had to use my umbrella for the first time on this trip.

The streets were awash as I splashed my way to the hotel.My room overlooks the Chateau Royal. The sun soon came out and started to illuminate the pastel shades of the houses in the centre of town. The Fauvists came here during the summer months, including Henri Matisse, and images of their paintings can be seen around town at the exact places where those paintings were originally created.