THINGS TO DO IN PERPIGNAN, FRANCE 🇫🇷 (occitanie day trip travel guide)
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- My Perpignan day trip included a bit of a surprise... make sure to watch the full travel vlog to see what it was!
In this Perpignan travel guide, I share a few recommendations of things to do in Perpignan, and show my surprise at happening upon a centuries old tradition that I did NOT expect to see. This is a really beautiful city, and I'm so glad that my artist residency brought me to this part of the world. For more videos about France and my artist-in-residence program, click below:
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Thank you❤
This is STILL Catalonia :) (you said “it was part of Catalonia”). Just not attached to the “spanish” part of Catalonia since the treaty of the Pyrenees. Thanks for showing my native city! I actually went to the school you mentioned near the king of Majorca palace. You don’t realize what you have as a kid unfortunately
Fantastic, going to Barcelona for couples days, probably i'll go for a tour there, thanks for that video
Enjoy!!
Perpigan and Bayonne are my favourite cities in France, wish I could visit more often 😢 nice video anyways!
Perpignan is a beautiful city and France is a good country. Thank you for the video Claire! Love you ❤ Enjoy and have a beautiful weekend
Thank you for watching!
Thank you! And that's a killer tune!
Thank you so much! That's my song "Ivy & Vine" which you can find on all streaming services!
Wow! Such a good video! I used to go to Barcelona every 2 years for a skateboard contest so I made some friends from this area. I too was amazed at all the Catalan influence in the area. Everybody seemed to speak all three languages there (French, Catalan, Spanish) I love that area so much! Enjoy your time there, Amiga! I love the song for this video as well! Can't wait for all the coming videos!
Thank you! It really is a very cool part of the world.
whats the name of the food you were eating? it looked very nice
(Calalonia o Pays Catalan day trip, but don't tell anyone)
Hello, nice video. May I ask you where you stayed with this nice beach view? Is it a hotel or a place you can rent for a month? TIA
Thanks for watching! I talk more about where I stayed in the videos on my channel about my artist residency. 😊
A blessed good day beautiful 😍 Claire Wowwww it's so nice Beautiful Perpignan place in France So Many Beautiful Apartments and historical fantastic Places And Nice delicious Foods, and I love your Background Song, 😍 of You Take care always Sending love from solid fan supporter from the Philippines 🇵🇭 sir Marvin 😍🎶🎧🎧🎧🇵🇭👏👏👏👏♥️🙏🙂👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks for watching!
Do you have family in Puerto Rico? Phenomenal music by the way. Love it!!!
Thank you so much! And no, not that I know of, but I'd love to visit! haha
Good prononciation in french🖤
Merci!
I like Perpignan the way I like my least-likeable, wayward, troublesome child. I first visited back in 2013, and, having been all over southern France and its ‘preserved in tourist aspic’ sights, was pleasantly surprised by the place, albeit yes, with a slightly rough-around-the-edges authentic ‘take no prisoners’ feel to the city. However, not once (in about a dozen visits since) have I felt my personal safety even remotely in danger whilst there. (This includes several strolls around the so-called ‘notorious’ St Jacques area; alas, there have been mutterings for years locally about razing this entire area - really a small village within the city - and starting again, but I feel this would be an egregious error, both from a human point of view and from an aesthetic point of view as, in my opinion, the old cluster of St Jacques houses and intermittent churches and small squares is actually a potential jewel in the city’s crown. Perhaps they may have to gentrify it a bit to pull in the casual visitors, but to erase it from the cityscape? well, I shudder at the thought and pray they don’t.) But … and here’s what those not in the know may not be aware of: 1. Perpignan has a small but lively and lovely central core: sure, the cultural barbarians bulldozed the old town walls to, you’ve guessed it, put up parking lots and roads but they had mercy on the actual buildings within the walls, such that you can stroll around the town’s heart for a morning and be pleasantly surprised. 2. It’s sunny; almost always. I was once there in the depths of January one year and the thermometer shot up to 23/24/25 degrees on a blissful run of 3 days. Sure, doesn’t bode well for global warming enthusiasts (of which I am one) but hey: gotta take your pleasures where you can find them! 3. It’s close to beach and mountain. One of its delights is that splendid thing whereby you can take a photo in Perpignan with palm trees in foreground and Canigou dusted with snow, like icing on a birthday cake, in the distance. That sub-tropical/Alpine (strictly, in this case, Pyrenean) juxtaposition always fascinates me. 4. The people are, on the whole, warm and welcoming. 5. Spain is right on the doorstep; and to take you there a run of delicious wee Cote Vermeille villages, climaxing in the cute-as-a-button Collioure (due respect to the dinky, but frankly slightly underwhelming Cerbere). If you take the more direct route and the fast train from Perpignan, you can be in Dali’s birthplace in 20 minutes, or 20 minutes further down the line again and the quite glorious Old Town ensemble of Girona (where the city fathers - and mothers! - wisely opted to leave the city walls, such that they provide one of the most wonderful urban-based walks in all Spain), and just another 40 minutes after that, perhaps Spain’s most world-renowned city. (Due respect to the non-Catalans amongst us.) So there you have it. Perpignan is worth the hike. I did it on a Ouigo (Paris-Perpignan return) a couple of years back for less than the price of a round of drinks. Or thereabouts.
I can only see her, nothing of Perpignan.
Another enjoyable video. I really appreciate the bits of historical information you include to provide some background about the places you visit.
Thank you! I always like to include a bit of what I learn as I travel. 😊
This is not popular for tourists, it's good to visit not crowded like cote d azur
It’s a great spot!
This was part of Catalunya
I'm moving to a small village next to Perpignan 🎉
Best of luck with the move!
Looks Fabulous 👍🏴
It is!
Hello, hqve a nice day
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Thank you!!
Hi Claire, did you fly into Perpignan and get public transport to that beach area? Is transport to beach areas good?
There is a bus you can take, but I recommend driving if you can!
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@@ngocvu8937 That's Canet-Plage!
My family is frome here. Seeing all these sites made me feel very nostalgic, thank you :)
Thank you for watching! Your family is from a very cool place!
Great video and the music was amazing! You’re so talented. Good luck!
Thank you so much! You can listen to my latest song here: open.spotify.com/track/1wHM2OT9xRBwPyANoSpFRv?si=0d75c1229d914fce
Thank you for this. I'm just on my way there and know what to expect.❤
Enjoy your time in Perpignan!
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wow, what a beautiful joi goddess ;-)
I live in perpignan you shold go to the rugby pleace
6:06 filmed 7th April 2021
Great music! I was wondering, was that Amy Whinehouse?…. And that’s you in person, personally! Congratulations! Gee, how can I listen to it if I don’t have a Spotify account?
Thank you! That's my song "Ivy & Vine." It's available on all music services, so you can search for "Claire Hawkins" wherever you get your music online! I also sell CDs on Bandcamp. 😊
Worth watching and I can’t wait! ❤
Thank you!!
This is a part of Catalonia.
Això és Catalunya.
I love your video❤
Thank you!
Nobody out there why🤔
Thanks for sharing this wonderful video
Thank you for watching!
That palace was so cool!
It really was!!
English speakers persist in trying to wedge in their old mispronunciation of the place 'Catalonia' where it isn't needed. So, just say Catalan as the adjective for things and people. I'm Catalan by marriage and want to tell you that the comment, 'You can really see the Spanish influence' is super cringe-inducing. Catalans actually sometimes call this part of France 'Catalunya Nord' i.e. Northern Catalunya. While factually Catalunya is a province of Spain they aren't a nation of people without a state by choice. Read up a little on their massive, ongoing, annual demonstrations for independence and avoid misidentifying their culture as 'Spanish'!
But living in Perpignan is horrible
The adjective for her is verbose.
Who asked?
you are so pretty, love the information packed in this vlog
Aw thank you! Glad you enjoyed!