Campervan rental in Perpignan

The tramontane scours the sky clear and can rock a tall campervan on an open pitch. The centre, with its brick palace, is a walking errand. The drives are the Côte Vermeille toward Collioure and the Spanish border, or the Tech and Têt valleys climbing toward the Pyrenees.

This is not Provence, though the summer is hot, and it is certainly not Normandy. The language on the signs shifts toward Catalan, the coast is a series of small ports under schist hills, and those port streets are too tight for a motorhome. Sleep on the plain or in a valley campsite, and visit Collioure or Céret as a person, not as a vehicle.