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A Working Holiday
Chapter 1: We Leave for France
Chapter 10: Looking for Mr. Goodstone
Chapter 11: A mission to la Clape
Chapter 12: Dinner at Château de Lignan
Chapter 13: Antiques and plunder
Chapter 14: The vintner next door
Chapter 15: The rooftops of Nézignan-l'Évêque
Chapter 2: Comes the crusade
Chapter 3: The 13 colonies
Chapter 4: Our curtains are dreadful
Chapter 5: Naked beaches
Chapter 6: A visit to Château des Estanilles
Chapter 7: A pilgrimage to Toulouse
Chapter 8: Remembering Collioure
Chapter 9: The priest and the mayor
Languedoc Roussillon
Recreation in the region
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Food
Regional wines
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Drive: The windmills and capitelles of Faugères
Drive: St. Martin de l'Arçon & Mont Caroux
Drive: Montolieu - The Village of Books
Drive: Mèze - Oysters, a wine abbey, and a Saturday flea market
Drive: Lamalou-les-Bains and the Forest of the Fighting Writers
Drive: Lac du Salagou - Windsurfing across a volcano crater
Drive: Gruissan - Seaside village and tomorrow's grapes
Drive: Cessenon-sur-Orb - Red marble, rare wines
Drive: Bouzigues and vicinity - Oysters, dry gardens, brocante
Fun: Two easy mountain hikes - St. Michel and Dio
Fun: Walking Fontjoncuse, with degustation after
Fun: Take a daytrip on the Canal du Midi
Fun: Ravin des Arcs - Challenging 2-Hour Hike
Fun: Hiking with the vultures: a 3-star canyon rim ramble
Fun: L'île Sainte-Lucie: A coastal amble
Fun: Octon -- A favorite hike in volcano country
Fun: Olargues (town) and Lac de Vezoles (hike)
Fun: A Day at the Beach
Fun: Near Pézenas - Two country walks and a scenic car tour
Pleasure: Portside in Marseillan, a notable new restaurant
Pleasure: Platanes, new restaurant on the Canal du Midi
Pleasure: Narbonne's Palace of Wine
Pleasure: Le Relais de Pigasse - Restaurant Gastronomique
Pleasure: La Clape and Château Mire-l'Étang
Pleasure: Collioure and the wines of Terrassous
Pleasure: Château des Estanilles
Pleasure: A good lunch on the way to Minerve
Pleasure: A 2-star restaurant in the Corbières
Shopping: Hidden leather artisan, Jean-Pierre Romiguier
Shopping: Women’s designer clothes and beautiful notebooks in Montpellier
Shopping: St. Jean-de-Fos - A pottery town
Sight: The breathtaking Cirque de Navacelles
Sight: Sun-Baked Wine and Castle Peyrepertuse
Sight: St. Pons-de-Thomières - Headquarters of the Haut Languedoc
Sight: Roquefort - The town that cheese built
Sight: Roquebrun and the Orb River Beaches
Sight: Pézenas: Pretty, artsy, antiquey, real
Sight: Oulibo, Aigne, Minerve - olive oil, an artists' town, Cathar tragedy depicted in miniature masterpiece
Sight: Montpeyroux and a Really Big Castle
Sight: Micropolis - The City of Insects
Sight: Leather-loving Millau and its nearby gorgeous gorges
Sight: Leather-bound Millau & the World's Highest Bridge
Sight: La Grotte des Demoiselles - Staggering
Sight: La Couvertoirade: a fortified Templar town
Sight: Fort de Salses and the gorgeous Corbières
Sight: Abbaye de Fontfroide
Sight: A Taste of Provence - Climbing Cézanne's Mont
Sight: Villeneuvette: Royal company town
Sight: A day in Provence - Les Baux & St. Rémy
Sight: The Last Cathar Bastion (and a visit to a 450,000 year old man)
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