Port Vendres

Next morning, October 8th, we drove on, through Banyuls country, stopping quite early at an aire de camping-cars at Port Vendres, and from there we took the afternoon off to explore the little harbor.

Up and out of Cerebre

Signage for one of the hiking trails along the coast

A fete or festival about to begin

I bought a bottle of Banyuls, the local thing, and consumed it
a bit later; a sweet red (!), sort of like port, although lacking
the polish (IMHO)

At the aire in Port Vendres; camping-cars are everywhere, and
we would see even more, and even more campgrounds and
aires, in the next few days

Looking out to the sea

Walking around to the harbor, we began seeing these signs...
Charles Rennie Mackintosh did time in Port Vendres and painted
the place, and with this and numerous others, the French are
celebrating the famous Scot architect and designer..
.reallyThai'd things together for us...

Sculpture

We are beginning to understand that, although
we are in France, we are still in Catalan
country; we'll see why in a subsequent post (it's
not just the proximity)

Harbor at Port Vendres

More Mackintosh

More French/Catalan festivity

Eventually we spent a couple hours at this little hole-in-the-wall,
partly for the wifi and partly for the half dozen oysters and glass
of wine for 7 euros

More of Port Vendres

Cabana bibliotheque

Everything in French and in Catalan

Beautiful place