V: Villefranche—we went but didn't Visit

These photos were taken in April, 2011, from the train on the way to Villefranche-de-Conflent, in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, where we hoped to take the little yellow train up to the border of Andorra, a mountain principality I have wanted to visit for many years.

We didn't even get to visit Villefranche. We arrived there, were told the little yellow train wasn't running that day, but we could get back to Perpignan on a train leaving in a few minutes. Along with other disappointed tourists who, like us, hadn't read the fine print, we returned to Perpignan. There, the two of us decided to go to Avignon for the rest of the day. (See Avignon posts starting here.)

Even though we didn't see the town, or get up to the Andorra border, we'd have been hard-pressed to find scenery more beautiful than the views we had from the train on our way to and from Villefranche.

© Photos by Richard Schear, April, 2011     

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