COLLIOURE

Guest Comments

Comfy, cosy and convenient

This quiet little house in one of the old parts of Collioure was an excellent base for a very cold, but mainly sunny February holiday.  Although it looks from the photographs as if it is a two-storey cottage, the accommodation is actually all on one level with the entrance at the top of the little flight of steps.  The ground floor is disused storage space - presumably where the original fishermen would have stored their gear

The photographs are an accurate representation of the property, but don't show how well equipped the kitchen is, the amount of useful storage both for clothes and food, and how easy it is to keep the property warm even at below zero temperatures outside.  We found the seating and bed very comfortable.

It is about a 2 minute walk to the sea and a selection of restaurants and small shops including an excellent boulangerie, a small food shop, and a pharmacy - and also to a bus stop where you can catch a comfortable, unbelievably cheap bus to the villages towards the Spanish border, or into Perpignan.  A 5 minute walk will take you to more shops including an excellent small supermarket (Shopi).  There are also two markets a week in the little square in the centre of the village.  The railway station is about 10 minutes easy walk from the cottage.

We found Collioure in February quiet and friendly, and the walking in the hills and vineyards behind it (and behind the other villages along the coast towards Spain) was excellent, and as easy or difficult as you choose to make it.  Quite a lot of the coast towards the Spanish border is also walkable.  There is a good 1 : 25000 map available from a little bookshop / newsagent near the market square, and the lady there spent a long time pointing out some good walks to us.

Highly recommended altogether!

Jim and Kay Clark
St Agnes, Cornwall, UK
[February 2010]