Planning a train trip to Valencia in October, and need some stop offs on the Paris to Barcelona legs. Think we’ll do narbonne for a day on the way down but Sete looks like a promising option for a night stopover on the way back.
Never been but they have fish which will keep Mrs f happy. Anyone know anything?
Yes. And I’ve stood too!
Think it would be comfy for a night but it might hurt your back for more than that
(if it’s anything like Antibes or anywhere else on the French Mediterranean coast, it’ll be lovely)
Joke answers obviously appreciated but also if anyone has any experience of how easy it is to break a tgv journey at Montpellier or Nimes that would be of interest too
It’ll still be October of course
Haven’t been to Sete. Looks good though.
Montpellier is great imo but obviously a pretty big city so a very different type of stop off. I wouldn’t personally recommend Nimes or Perpignan. Avignon is a perfectly nice place for a stop off. Don’t think changing trains will be difficult anywhere.
It’s more a question of wanting to not have to stray far from the tgv route because at that point we’ll be on the way home and not wanting to divert too much or even have to worry about getting a bus to a station. We’re walkers.
I agree Montpelier did look good until I realised the station was out of the centre
Ah right. There will probably be a ‘navette’ (sp?) - a free train that will meet the tgv to take you to the central station.
As an aside I love how lots of French town websites still look like they haven’t changed since 2000.
Montpellier is great. I don’t recall any major issue with the station, but it’s a while since I went there, tbh.
Edit: that’s because the new station wasn’t open when I went there 
Have moved this to the travel forum as requested
Ffs I actually checked to see if I should put this somewhere else!
Went to Montpellier last year - it’s a quick tram ride to the centre…no issues.
I haven’t been to Sete, but we did stay in Narbonne last year, which is… ok. The best things to do there were eat steak at Chez Bebelle in the market hall, and head to Gruissan on the nearby coast, which has a cool ruined castle, and is also where this movie was filmed:
Oh, and if you like board games, or beer, or preferably both, this shop is amazing:
Yes I have but all i remember is seeing the gondola jousting which was super cool
Iirc it was Sete where we stayed on a cute little campsite too, which had a pool, but they wouldn’t let my bf swim because he didn’t have Speedos and shorts style trunks are banned.
I dont know what a tgv is but our trip to sete was part of a wider trip to montpellier, nimes, carcassone, some other places i forget and Barcelona which we did entirely by train and was super easy
Yeah the tgv is the high speed train which I’m guessing is what you used