Quote ="FCUM Rhino"Agreed. The USAP fans were just amazing tbh, all so friendly, was a pleasure to have the priviledge to be with them sat night! For the people that didn't make the trip check out my videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDCUKpF9 ... re=channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxZVantz ... re=channel'" Allready come across them o'nt tubeyou (sp ) a bit samey if you dont mind me saying, same songs, same back of the head as last time. Nice camo shorts though.

Quote ="FCUM Rhino"Agreed. The USAP fans were just amazing tbh, all so friendly, was a pleasure to have the priviledge to be with them sat night! For the people that didn't make the trip check out my videos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDCUKpF9 ... re=channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxZVantz ... re=channel'" Allready come across them o'nt tubeyou (sp ) a bit samey if you dont mind me saying, same songs, same back of the head as last time. Nice camo shorts though.

Agreed.
We took in Carcassonne and Banyuls, need to leave something for next time when I may take she who must be obeyed.
Collioure sounds interesting & also fancy le train jaune into the Pyrenees.
I endorse the comments about French women.

Ye mate, the songs on saturday were abit repetative. Still thought we made a bit of voice.

& Cheers pal

I've just made it back this evening ... Lord Percy and Gulf Coast Highwayman won't be back in Blighty until Friday, from their secret hideaway somewhere on the Spanish coast !

On the plus side :

- Dived in the Med again, for the first time in far too long

- Proved the that trip was pretty much possible by public transport

- Had an unscheduled extended stay in Girona (see not-so-good) and found some places that I'd not spent time at before, including the excellent walled sections of the city.

- Finding Canet Plage / Bar Wembley etc.

- Photographing just about all the 'Licence Renewed' locations on a morning-after-the-night-before in Perpignan.

On the not-so-good side :

- A flight delay of nearly 4 hours coming back to Donny on Monday afternoon

- Much messing about at the border on the Sunday morning train back to Spain (around 75 mins late), meaning I missed the connecting bus and the subsequent dive that afternoon. Not as bad a some Leeds fans who were trying to get the lunchtime flight from Barcelona via that train ... Did they make it back ?

- The resort being really quiet ... I guess half of Europe is on a months notice at the moment.

- The rugby union team being sucessful and half of them all popping out of the woodwork to support.

- Bar Wembley being closed !

- Trying my best efforts in the local lingo, only to have the receipient reply in faultless English back to me ...

Collioure is magnifique

ouis!

How on earth can you list the events of Saturday evening in your "not so good"?

Some vinegar for that chip on your shoulder?

Nah, they merely took up the bar and cafe space that should have been rightfully ours !



The USAP fans seemed to go in to the wearing of full kit to the maximum degree ... On most of the girls that worked really well and this was fine with us

..... Just not so good on the blokes

And we can't have all this joyous driving around the streets hanging out of cars until all hours, when I am trying to get some kip in anticipation of an early start the following day.

How dare they !

One of them swapped Jerseys with the bloke I went with. He was happy to do so as the Leeds shirt he had he'd worn 3 times and we'd lost all 3! The USAP shirt was a very tight fit.

I realised sleep was not an option as the circuit the procession of cars were taking went right past my hotel. So I had little choice but to keep partying till 3am. What a imposition

Agreed, USAP made it all the better for me and our crowd, they were very pleasant to talk to and gave us some presents for home.Mates got them on fbook!

Indeed, Carcassone and Le Petit Train Jaune are on the list for future visits too.

It seems a shame that the Lord Derby Cup Final or the French Championship Final aren't more 'promoted' over here (like where they're going to be held, where to get tickets etc.) as I know some mates who did it some years ago when they were held in Paris and went over for the weekend.

Anyone do the 'Palais' in Perpignan ?

Carcassone is interesting, well worth the visit, very accessible by train (TER). We saw flamingoes & egrets on Les Etangs near Narbonne.
We did the palais - if you mean the Palce of the Kings of Majorca - but it was bizarre, full of a kids literature festival that meant we couldn't go in all the rooms that are normally accessible. Good hike though with good views from the battlements over the town.
The highlight of the visit to Banyuls (also by TER) was to go wine tasting in the Cave du Templiers. Took ages to find it & when the signs say its 3 mins away it means by car. i.e. 20-25 mins on foot.
The vermilion coast did live up to its name though.

I've seen the flamingos before when I came down by train from Paris a couple of years ago ...

I share your pain at the flight delay, Admiral. Mine was held up a whole ten minutes yesterday.

Oohhh !

Did they come round with the refreshment vouchers for having to wait for such a long time ?

Most people on that flight struggled to find a combination of anything edible + drinkable for a total of Eur.5 in the Girona airport cafeteria ....

Do they still make you watch a bizzare video before the tour?

Robert?

Yes. When we left the bar he had to go back to the hotel and change as it was cutting off his circulation.

5 euros??!! I bought a bottle of coke and it was the better part of 3.

The Palais des Rois de Majorque? on a sunny day, the views from there are outstanding in all directions. last year went to a mini concert that was being held there, it was superb!

Next year, have a look to see if you can visit the nal (not in north london)! it is only open on certain days, but is well worth the walk round, though the sumer holidays, there are concerts held there too!

Is part of it still a military garrison / school / barracks ?

Of course the real tour around the streets of Perpignan is to follow the route outlined in John Gardner's 'Licence Renewed'

The route that we took on foot via the "African Quarter" on the way to the Palais was a little educational too, I think everyone in that district came out onto the street to watch us puff, pant and sweat our way up the hill.

You told me you weren't impressed by the women in Montpellier. I wont repeat the actual phrase you used mind.