Has anyone here ever visited Montsegur in France? If so, what would you say would the be the "easiest" way to get there? As there seem to be no bus stations or anything nearby.
>>1124522
I've been there it's not far from home, but I don't really know what's the fastest to get there considering I just hiked
I guess you don't have a car since it's the easiest way to get there, isn't there transportation to the village next to it ?
>>1124537
I am coming from Finland. Now the cheapest way seems to be taking a flight to Paris, take a train/bus from Paris to nearest whatever town and hike to Montsegur.
Oh I assumed you were already nearby
So you come from Finland especially to see Montségur ? If that's the case it's odd, no offense intended it's just that it's not a famous landmark outside of southern France
In that case yes, but you could even take a plane to Toulouse directly, you'll be direclt closer then
>>1124545
I was looking at flights to Toulouse, they were around 350 euros, Paris was only 130 euros. Train/bus to the nearest place was 44 euros.
>>1124549
Hey, thanks for this! Seems like the cheapest way for me would be taking a plane from Finland to Paris, and from Paris a flight to Toulouse, and the train from Toulouse to Foix!
>>1124561
You're welcome Anon, by the way Foix is also a nice town, 10 000 people and a cool castle too, I'm pretty sure there must be a couple hotels there if needs be
From Foix it seems there are some buses passing through Montségur, otherwise taxis are avalaible
It's about 30km away (it was 20 in a straight line) so walking might not be the best if you don't know how to get back to Foix after
If you hitchike it's still rather popular in France
>>1124561
>>1124569
Make sure to go to a boulangerie in Foix and taste this after a day hiking it'll fill you up
>>1124522
By the way are you going to visit other Cathars castles or just this one ?
>>1124574
They stop at Montségur, by "passing through" I meant to say that Montségur isn't the final destination of the bus but it's one of the stops on its way
Also learn just enough French to be able to ask if your bus is going to stop at the catsle for instance, in these places people know more Spanish than English most of the time
>>1124574
>Would taxis be fucking with foreign customers at places like this?
I don't think so, it's rural yeah but it's not backwater, and most of the time it's not even private cars it's companies used to carrying tourists to they are professional enough
>>1124581
>Just Montsegur, I think.
Just to add, it would be so much easier if I had the driver's license...
>>1124581
>Just Montsegur, I think.
Alright, I'm just curious since it's a long way from Finland for one castle
>>1124584
Oh I see, I know that feel don't worry i'm supposed to take the driving exam next month tho
It'stoo bad, a lot of other impressive ones in that area
>>1124586
I just got interested in it years ago from the documentaries of Richard Stanley.
>>1124590
>he documentaries of Richard Stanley
i'll check this out thanks
