Categories: Active Vacations in France , Occitanie. Not to go on vacation particularly, but to live, even though many of these towns are also wonderful for visitors.
And when did your trip take place? What inspired me? I thought the south of France would be really interesting. I was thinking about one of the Compostelles, you know, the Voie de Saint Jacques. I can do it in a week or two, in the end, I decided to do it in one week. So I got really excited about it. So we had done two other episodes about the Cathars, it was about Cathar Beliefs and Lifestyle. And about the crusade against the Cathars, and so perhaps that kind of put a bug in your ear or something?
So I would compare it a little bit to that. So lots of pretty big hills. She was fine with that, so I was planning the trip to Spain, and then the hike to France, and my friend found out that I was doing the French part on my own, and he kind of reached out, and he said, you know, do you want a trail buddy?
So you actually started walking from Perpignan? And then we were on the Sentier Cathare from there. Because I mean, if you do the whole thing, it starts in Port la Nouvelle on the coast, and it goes all the way to Foix, which is in the Pyrenees. But yeah, there were cathars all over this area, they obviously walked, this was the way that people got around.
But they also went south into Spain where persecutions were not as prevalent, for some of the time anyway. So was this completely itinerant? So did you carry all your stuff? Did you stop at hotels? Did you have camping gear? So you took this hike late May, early June, The restaurants, we ran into some, you know, just minor issues.
