After catching the bus into Perpignan, we caught the 390 €1 bus towards Thuir. It was only a 20 minute drive but I had convinced Mick we should go right to the end of the route so we could see as much as we could. We ended up in a small village called Terrats. You can see how happy Mick was with my plan. It sounded as if he had ‘terrats syndrome’.

It was obviously a major wine making village. 

The streets of Terrats were very narrow as can be seen by these shots from the bus. 

The bus driver thought we were a bit crazy when we hopped back on the bus 5 minutes later to go back to Thuir. 

Thuir certainly was a cute place. 

We spent some time choosing a restaurant for lunch but eventually made a selection at Le Fourquet. We were the only non locals in the place. 

Mick chose the duck in red wine and I had a salad. 

Thuir is famous for making the aperitif called Byrrh – a fortified red wine flavoured with quinine, coffee and orange. Mick let me have a sip of the bottle he bought a few days ago. He says it evaporated. 😱 

After lunch, we had an hour to spare until the next bus so we wandered the empty streets and found a bar. 




He was talked into having a Belgian Christmas beer. It tasted as if it had nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon. Regardless- the shout was less than $5AU. 

 Mick was sure he could smell ‘weed’ at the bus stop. Who was I to argue? Note the young men in the left of this photo at our bus stop. 

Before we caught the next bus home, we spent some time on LIDL. Will post about that tomorrow.