Montpellier and its region: Trip in the South of France

By Cristina Rebiere and Olivier Rebiere

Traveling should above all be a true pleasure: the pleasure of discovery. Taking the time to wander, contemplate monuments and landscapes is to connect the places visited and their history with our own emotions. In a few words: traveling is about seeking an authentic and enriching Experience.

However, preparing a successful trip oneself has become a challenging task due to:

Too much information available: between websites, encyclopedic guides, and specialized brochures.

Too many possible options: between dedicated applications, advertisements, promotions, and well-intentioned opinions.

And above all, not enough time to search, choose, and finally travel and explore at a leisurely pace!

In short, you can quickly find yourself in a position of not knowing where to go when you consider embarking on a trip, isn't that right?

Since we have been traveling the world and writing our guides, we are convinced that successful future travel involves:

Conducting research: When time is limited, impromptu visits often cause us to miss out on wonderful things.

Making choices: You can't visit everything at once unless you live there for a longer period!

Being clear and simple: There is no need to overload your mind with too much information or a "catalog of descriptions."

Offering discoveries without imposing a specific itinerary: Our guide is flexible, with thematic icons, photos, just enough maps, and sometimes suggested routes.

Truly facilitating the preparation of your trip by lightening your mind so that you can explore on-site according to your wishes.

That's why our Voyage Experience guides are helpful companions for preparing your stay.

We welcome you to your Voyage Experience guide: "Montpellier and its region"! We hope it will introduce you to this charming city in the south of France, as well as its region with picturesque villages, magnificent landscapes, beautiful beaches, a rich heritage, and where the sun shines almost all year round. When we settled in the south of France seven years ago, we chose it mostly for its mild temperatures throughout the year and the omnipresent sunshine.

The Authors

For several years now, Cristina and Olivier have been digital nomads, traveling the world. Their guides free your mind for the preparation of your future trip. Without fuss or encyclopedic information catalogs, you will quickly establish your own Travel choices to truly enjoy the joy of the Experience once you arrive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cristina & Olivier Rebiere
• Release date: Jun 15, 2023

Cristina Rebiere

Courte biographie:Cristina Rebière est auteure de nombreux guides et livres. Elle a dirigé une maison d'édition, un parc d'aventures et mené à bien de nombreuses missions dans la fonction publique européenne. Elle est aussi spécialisée dans la formation continue.Ses origines:Après la Révolution roumaine, Cristina interrompt de brillantes études pour entrer à l'université en France où elle suit tout le cursus en faculté de droit et obtient une Maîtrise en Administration Économique et Sociale. D'abord chargée de communication dans un Institut Français en Allemagne, elle devient statisticienne à Bruxelles pour un bureau d'assistance de la Commission Européenne. De retour à Bucarest elle est successivement contrôleuse de gestion, directrice de maison d'édition, experte européenne puis professeure de français. En Roumanie elle fonde avec son mari une entreprise de team building puis le premier parc d'aventures jamais créé dans ce pays - construit de leurs mains - qui attirera des milliers de personnes, écoles et entreprises dans la pratique du sport et d'activités de cohésion en pleine nature. Avec son équipe, elle conçoit et construit des parcours d'escalade dans les arbres pour d'autres clients.Au rectorat de l'Académie de la Martinique, Cristina prend en charge la coordination de la Cellule Académique des Fonds Européens et de Coopération où elle accompagne les porteurs de projet dans le montage des dossiers, assure la formation en ingénierie de projet, gère un réseau de plus d'une soixantaine d'enseignants référents à l'ouverture internationale. Elle assure la gestion opérationnelle de plusieurs projets de coopération. Elle assure l'actualisation du site internet de la Délégation Académique aux Relations Internationales et à la Coopération.La pédagogie de Cristina Rebière est basée sur le pragmatisme et l'efficacité.Domaines de compétence:management de projet, voyage, marketing social de contenu, team building, formation initiale et continue, expertise en fonds européens, budgétisation, planification, productivité et stratégie, coaching, ingénierie financière, webmestre, statistiques, procédures, web intégration, conception graphique, communication, conception et construction de parcs d'aventure

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Practical tips - France

How do I navigate the eGuide?

GeoNAV

PhotoNAV

IcoNAV

France, Occitania: department of Hérault

Montpellier

Notre-Dame-de-Londres

Saint-Martin-de-Londres

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert

Sète

Clermont-l'Hérault

Mourèze

France, Occitania: department of Gard

Aigues-Mortes

Le Grau-du-Roi

France: overview

Gastronomy

Credits and authors

Introduction

We welcome you to your Voyage Experience guide: Montpellier and its region! We hope that this guide will make you discover this charming town in the south of France, but also its region with picturesque villages, beautiful landscapes, gorgeous beaches, a rich heritage and where the sun shines almost all year round. When we moved to southern France seven years ago, we chose it mostly for the year-round mild temperatures and the ever-present sunshine. Montpellier was also on our list, but we finally chose Perpignan, this Catalan city less known by foreigners, but very familiar to the French because it often has the highest temperatures and is always mentioned in the weather forecast. I've wanted to write a guide of a French region for a very long time, but France, Olivier's native country and my adopted country for over 30 years, offers so many great sites to discover that it was difficult for me to choose. We have lived in various regions and have extensively visited France. Finally, to stop procrastinating, I decided to start with Montpellier, which we had the opportunity to visit several times, as well as its region which hides some pearls and in particular one of our favorite places that I will tell you about a little later in the guide. When we live in a place for several years, we like to visit and know the area thoroughly. Nevertheless, if we had to write on all the places we visited, it would make books of several hundred pages and with the costs of printing in color, it would make the prices of our Voyage Experience guides prohibitive! For the time being, paper versions continue to be preferred to electronic ones. That's why we always try to put the most significant sites and those that have marked us the most and synthesize as much as possible the information that other classic guides include in their books. This paper book is based on an ebook that you can get for free on your smartphone or tablet (see at the end of the book the modalities) and where you can use all the features explained in the following section: "How to use the eguide". This section also contains navigation modes called GeoNav, PhotoNav and IcoNav. The eguide offers you another approach to travel, between logbook and classic guide. You can imagine that we don’t have a team like Lonely Planet, so you will not find in this guide many addresses of accommodation or restaurants. We share with you our travels, discoveries and personal experiences. We hope this will help you discover new destinations and make you want to visit them. Note that the electronic version works almost like a website and doesn’t need to be used with an Internet connection (unless you want to access OpenStreetMap and the other hyperlinks we give you throughout the book). Good trip!

Sincerely,

Cristina & Olivier

Practical tips - France

How to get to France?

Depending on the country of origin, the good deals may be different to buy cheaper plane tickets. You can also arrive by train, bus or car. For the plane, here are some tips that apply no matter what country you're going to travel from.

Buy your plane tickets in advance (at least 3 to 6 months) to benefit from the best prices. Do not buy tickets immediately but first test the market. You can find the airlines serving the region on the website of Montpellier Méditerranée Airport. It's a small but growing airport that keeps adding new destinations and airlines. It has the advantage of having been able