Written by: Paul Fresh croissants, regular trips to Paris and three hundred days of sunshine – these were some of the things we envisioned when we boarded the plane from Toronto to Montpellier exactly one year ago today. We were anxious but excited – after selling everything we owned and leaving our home country behind, moving to France was a…
Written by: Paul Our first August in Montpellier was spent close to home. We were scheduled to travel and also have a full house of visitors in September, so we decided to lay low and just enjoy the hot, lazy days of summer in our medium-sized city near the Meditteranean. Montpellier Each month I do a quick write-up on our…
July in Montpellier is hot. Ridiculously hot. Melt your face off hot. We knew it was going to be hot in the summer when we moved here, and yet all the mental preparation and prehydration in the world couldn’t help us escape the fact that it was just consistently, unrelentingly hot. Despite the heat, it was a good month and…
Written By: Paul Sète is the kind of place that is made for day trips. It’s an easy eighteen minute train ride from Montpellier, making it extremely accessible, and it’s a festive, impossibly picturesque place ripe for exploring on foot. We had wanted to visit this gorgeous Mediterranean port city from the day we arrived three months ago, so we…
Carcassonne had always been high on our list of places to visit in southern France, so when Angela said to me, “let’s go to Carcassonne on your birthday weekend,” I was all over it. Celebrating another trip around the sun while peering over the ramparts of a medieval city – yes please! Our trip began in Montpellier, where we boarded…
