Perpignan, France

Left our lovely friends at the lovely Delta d'Ebre and took two trains to Perpignan.  Perpignan is one of the first Mediterranean cities in France, coming from Spain so it's where many tourists rent cars to tour Southern France. That's why we're here. We took two trains,  one from Aldea to Barcelona and then, after a couple hours at Barcelona Sants, another train crossing the border into France. Most of the trip borders the Mediterranean but we were on the other side of the train.

It was exhausting even though each ride lasted less than 2 hours. All we've managed to do is see the
Palace of the Kings of Majorca because it's next door to the hotel and find an open restaurant (it's Monday ). Most of the French restaurants are closed so we settled for French Italian--pizza. Ours was  tuna and capers.

There's Roman ruins in the city but it has a strong Catalan influence. Dali once called it the "center of the cosmic universe" but most people call it seedy or as one travel site said, rough around the edges. He had a cosmic experience here but so far, that hasn't happened to either of us. Nicole has been to the train station before and thought the area was sketchy but I think they built a new station.  It seemed nice enough and there was actually one taxi out front which we took.

I booked a hotel in the middle of the city to see the pretty part.

Bridges over the river Basse

Palace of the Kings of Majorca

Another river view and yes, it does look like a stream.

Comments

  1. MHJune 17, 2019 at 7:10 PM

    Majorca? a county?

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  2. vJune 18, 2019 at 12:34 AM

    Some king of Barcelona named it the kingdom of Majorca in the 1300s. It was also part of Catalonia once. These European towns always have too much history for my brain to understand.

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