France, Languedoc Roussillon, Pyrénées-Orientales

Perpignan to Salses. 23.9 km. Thursday 28^th May 2009

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Google Earth	Garmin Altitude Plot	Garmin Mapsource	Perpignan
Perpignan	Perpignan	Snow Melt	Snow Melt
Snow Melt	River at Perpignan	River at Perpignan	River at Perpignan
River at Perpignan	River at Perpignan	River at Perpignan	River at Perpignan
CR1 Cycle Route	River near Perpignan	River near Perpignan	River near Perpignan
Cycle Route	Snowy Peaks	Apricot Orchard	Apricot Orchard
Apricot Orchard	Apricot Orchard	Snowy Peaks	Snowy Peaks
Snowy Peaks	Snowy Peaks	Apricot Orchards	River View
River View	River View and Anne	L Agly River Name	L Agly River Name
L Agly River	L Agly River	L Agly River	L Agly River
L Agly River	Nicotiana	Pyrenees	Nigela
Nigela	Wind Farm	Our Route	Peach Orchard
Peach Orchard	Salses el Castel	Salses le Chateau	Wine
Salses Station

Thursday

The trains were back to normal after the strike. We got the 06:40. At Perpignan we found a pleasant route out of the city. After buying cherries and apricots from a small shop, we followed the river Têt out of town. This was also part of the CR1 cycle route. The river was in spate with snow melt.

At Bonpas, we found a nice patisserie and Neil had a ham and cheese croissant and Anne had a tomato quiche. Very nice. We had chocolate and cherries for afters. Earlier in the week we were on short commons after bad luck finding open shops. Now we were having a bonanza.

The CR1 cycle route starts from the Pyrenees, some distance inland, and roughly follows the coast. Today we joined the route and followed it all day. It avoided busy roads so we were pleased with it.

We rushed to catch the 15:24 from Salses to Cerbère only to find our assumption was wrong. This train roared through the station at high speed. We caught a stopping train 90 minutes later. Instead of rushing through the heat of the day, we could have had a sleep under a shady tree. You can never do too much research on a trip like this. We still got home in time to make supper and get to bed ready for the 03:40 alarm. We needed to get the earlier train on Friday (05:40). We must be mad!

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