Carcassonne
A UNESCO world heritage site, the most famous medieval cité in the world: fairytale fortress and stunning cathedral surrounded by cobbled lanes, alleys and squares with fountains, full of little shops and cafés

Lourdes
The place 7 million pilgrims and those hoping for a miraculous cure for their ailments visit every year since the 14 year old Bernadette Soubirous had 18 visions of the Virgin Mary in the Grotte de Massabielle 

Mirepoix Market Day
Every Monday Market day experience in the 13^th century medieval fortified bastide town of Mirepoix with its stunning gothic cathedral with labyrinth, picturesque central market square surrounded by arcaded half-timbered medieval houses containing small art shops, galleries, cafés and restaurants

Toulouse
Capital of the Midi-Pyrénées - the rose-red city built of red brick.
France’s second town after Paris.
The capital of sport, rugby and the aerospace industry.
A place of culture, music and monuments, and a relaxed way of life and city living.

Collioure
Quaint and touristy Mediterranean seaside town with harbour,
small cobbled streets with cafés, restaurants, art and souvenir shops
an old favourite with artists and painters such as Picasso and Matisse  

St Martin du Canigou
Breath-taking and magical mountain top monastery
One of the most stunning settings of any monastery
The monastery can be visited in a silent tour and a path leads to a viewpoint from which you can look down to the monastery on its narrow promontory rock it sits on at an altitude of over 1000m.

Mysterious Rennes-le-Château
Beautiful ancient hilltop village with wonderful views and a place of mystery, secret inscriptions on tombstones, a church full of hidden clues and rumours of a treasure found by a poor country priest who suddenly became incredibly rich. Many books have been written about this intriguing subject. The most famous being The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Baignent, Leigh and Lincoln, who claimed that Dan Brown based his book The Da Vinci Code on their ideas.

Cathar Castles
A very scenic drive through the incredible Gorge de Galamus and past the hermitage of St Antoine de Galamus built into the mountain rocks with a visit to the two most beautiful Cathar castles of  Peyreperteuse and Queribus

Pyrenean experience
A drive along some of the most scenic routes in France, through gorges and up mountain passes, through forests and along wild rivers in some of the most secluded and serene places you can find, one of which the Mont Perdu UNESCO world heritage site for being a pastoral landscape reflecting an agricultural way of life that now only survives in this area