Home

   Log in or Register



Insurance Quotes
forums Campsite Search Comp Directory tips virtual brochure Profile
Tent and Awning Reviews Competitions Caravans and Motorhomes For Sale Shopping Diary Advent Calendar

Advertisement

Message Forums

Welcome Guest Register Login Search The Forum Posts Since Last Visit
 Reception - All Forums
  Caravanning and Camping Abroad
Share   Post on X / Twitter  Share on Facebook  Email  Printer Friendly Version Print
Subject Topic: Stuff to do around Sommieres/Montpellier Post Reply Post New Topic
29/7/2015 at 8:17am
 Location: Hertfordshire
 Outfit: None Entered
View Drurys11's Profile View Profile   Reply to Drurys11 Reply   Quote Drurys11 Quote  
Joined: 29/7/2015

Standard Member
Standard Member

Forum Posts:   3

Site Reviews Total: 0
Site Reviews 2024: 0  
Site Reviews 2023: 0  
Site Reviews 2022: 0  
Site Reviews 2021: 0  
Site Reviews 2020: 0  
Site Reviews 2019: 0  
Site Reviews 2018: 0  
Site Nights 2024: 0
Site Nights 2023: 0
Site Nights 2022: 0
Site Nights 2021: 0
Site Nights 2020: 0
Site Nights 2019: 0
Site Nights 2018: 0

I'm a newbie & this is my first post - so hi everyone!

We're heading down to Sommieres at the end of next week, to Domaine de Massereau.

I was just wondering if anyone had recommendations for places worth visiting nearby (within a couple of hours drive).

Looking for beach recommendations, nice old towns, scenic drives, markets etc

Is Montpellier itself worth a look?

Likewise, what should we avoid?

Thanks for any advice



Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!


29/7/2015 at 8:51am
 Location: Bristol
 Outfit: Sungari 600 Icarus 600 with canopies!
View warbis66's Profile View Profile   Reply to warbis66 Reply   Quote warbis66 Quote  
Joined: 10/9/2005

Diamond Member
Diamond Member

Forum Posts:   3057
Tent Reviews:   8

Site Reviews Total: 28
Site Reviews 2024: 0  
Site Reviews 2023: 0  
Site Reviews 2022: 0  
Site Reviews 2021: 0  
Site Reviews 2020: 0  
Site Reviews 2019: 0  
Site Reviews 2018: 1  
Site Nights 2024: 0
Site Nights 2023: 0
Site Nights 2022: 0
Site Nights 2021: 0
Site Nights 2020: 0
Site Nights 2019: 0
Site Nights 2018: 5

Pont du gard river swimming rock jumping sight seeing canoeing
Uzes great town good sight seeing
Nimes is worth a visit
Great location
Have fun time

-------------
France Lover


29/7/2015 at 8:53am
 Location: Lancashire
 Outfit: Leisuredrive VW T6 campervan
View franbee's Profile View Profile   Reply to franbee Reply   Quote franbee Quote  
Joined: 21/7/2009

Diamond Member
Diamond Member

Forum Posts:   3213

Site Reviews Total: 235
Site Reviews 2024: 19 
Site Reviews 2023: 19 
Site Reviews 2022: 21 
Site Reviews 2021: 7  
Site Reviews 2020: 0  
Site Reviews 2019: 11 
Site Reviews 2018: 9  
Site Nights 2024: 30
Site Nights 2023: 37
Site Nights 2022: 40
Site Nights 2021: 14
Site Nights 2020: 0
Site Nights 2019: 16
Site Nights 2018: 13

Welcome to the forums!
Have to dash off just now, but will try to add something later. Sommieres itself is a nice historic town, well worth a visit.


29/7/2015 at 9:11am
 Location: 
 Outfit: 
View Berriow's Profile View Profile   Reply to Berriow Reply   Quote Berriow Quote  
Joined: 21/12/2010

Diamond Member
Diamond Member

Forum Posts:   3980

Site Reviews Total: 53
Site Reviews 2024: 0  
Site Reviews 2023: 0  
Site Reviews 2022: 0  
Site Reviews 2021: 0  
Site Reviews 2020: 0  
Site Reviews 2019: 0  
Site Reviews 2018: 1  
Site Nights 2024: 0
Site Nights 2023: 0
Site Nights 2022: 0
Site Nights 2021: 0
Site Nights 2020: 0
Site Nights 2019: 0
Site Nights 2018: 1

The best access to Montpellier city centre is to use the park and ride - signed as P +Tram - on the north east edge of the city as you drive in from Sommieres.

Nimes doesn't have that but has lots of smart multi storey underground parking close to the city centre - but with height limits of about 1.85 metres. The guide books say to hike around the Roman remains. Instead we wander the cafe bars, always tour the amazing displays in the indoor market hall, and go for lunch on the roof terrace of Norman Foster's glass and steel cube, the Carre d'Art. Take the lift in the far right corner of the lobby. Few tourists know of it.






Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!


29/7/2015 at 9:51am
 Location: 
 Outfit: 
View SGThomas's Profile View Profile   Reply to SGThomas Reply   Quote SGThomas Quote  
Joined: 16/10/2007

Diamond Member
Diamond Member

Forum Posts:   6707
Tent Reviews:   1

Site Reviews Total: 116
Site Reviews 2024: 0  
Site Reviews 2023: 0  
Site Reviews 2022: 4  
Site Reviews 2021: 0  
Site Reviews 2020: 0  
Site Reviews 2019: 0  
Site Reviews 2018: 15 
Site Nights 2024: 0
Site Nights 2023: 0
Site Nights 2022: 40
Site Nights 2021: 0
Site Nights 2020: 0
Site Nights 2019: 0
Site Nights 2018: 98

The voie verte runs alongside the campsite, it goes from Sommieres to Nimes and is flat.

In Sommieres, by the InterMarché, is the cave cooperative, where you can buy wine "en vrac" which means you take your own container and fill it up (minimum is 5 litres, or as we call it, an evening's drinking!)



Advertisement



29/7/2015 at 11:32am
 Location: Bucks
 Outfit: Used to have a Pennine Fiesta
View Claydoncamper's Profile View Profile   Reply to Claydoncamper Reply   Quote Claydoncamper Quote  
Joined: 07/8/2009

Diamond Member
Diamond Member

Forum Posts:   1694
Tent Reviews:   4

Site Reviews Total: 28
Site Reviews 2024: 0  
Site Reviews 2023: 0  
Site Reviews 2022: 0  
Site Reviews 2021: 0  
Site Reviews 2020: 0  
Site Reviews 2019: 2  
Site Reviews 2018: 4  
Site Nights 2024: 0
Site Nights 2023: 0
Site Nights 2022: 0
Site Nights 2021: 0
Site Nights 2020: 0
Site Nights 2019: 8
Site Nights 2018: 19

Head for La Grande Motte and follow signs for the Casino. This will take you to the sea front. There is a fantastic beach there which is sheltered and hardly used. It's about 45 minutes from Sommieres. Sommieres is a great little town and this time of year you may even get the festival in the town. Masserau is a lovely campsite too.


29/7/2015 at 12:19pm
 Location: Dartford Kent
 Outfit: VW T6 conversion
View morepints's Profile View Profile   Reply to morepints Reply   Quote morepints Quote  
Joined: 06/5/2008

Platinum Member
Platinum Member

Forum Posts:   978

Site Reviews Total: 48
Site Reviews 2024: 7  
Site Reviews 2023: 1  
Site Reviews 2022: 2  
Site Reviews 2021: 0  
Site Reviews 2020: 0  
Site Reviews 2019: 1  
Site Reviews 2018: 2  
Site Nights 2024: 21
Site Nights 2023: 2
Site Nights 2022: 12
Site Nights 2021: 0
Site Nights 2020: 0
Site Nights 2019: 14
Site Nights 2018: 2

Love Montpellier! Have a coffee in the Place de la Comédie and watch the trams go by. There's a multi-storey car park below it, if you're feeling brave. Old town, Botanical Gardens, and the postmodern Antigone area, just past the shopping centre. It's a young town, with lots of students, which gives it a cool vibe.

You can also get a tram to the beach at Palavas. For ruins, I still have an ambition to get to the Cathedrale de Maguelone, out on the marshes. It's quite a walk. Aigues Mortes is a good visit - old fortified town and seaport now landlocked, and the Camargue with black bulls, white horses and pink flamingos is worth drive.


Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!


29/7/2015 at 12:44pm
 Location: Hertfordshire
 Outfit: None Entered
View Drurys11's Profile View Profile   Reply to Drurys11 Reply   Quote Drurys11 Quote  
Joined: 29/7/2015

Standard Member
Standard Member

Forum Posts:   3

Site Reviews Total: 0
Site Reviews 2024: 0  
Site Reviews 2023: 0  
Site Reviews 2022: 0  
Site Reviews 2021: 0  
Site Reviews 2020: 0  
Site Reviews 2019: 0  
Site Reviews 2018: 0  
Site Nights 2024: 0
Site Nights 2023: 0
Site Nights 2022: 0
Site Nights 2021: 0
Site Nights 2020: 0
Site Nights 2019: 0
Site Nights 2018: 0

Thanks for the replies everyone - some great ideas there which should fill my lunch hour researching!

 

It's going to be our second year visiting Sommieres, so we're pretty familiar with the town itself (althouigh we somehow missed the wine co-operative! That will be rectified this year!), but we didn't explore the area too much last time.

Keep 'em coming!



29/7/2015 at 12:48pm
 Location: 
 Outfit: 
View OliverDay's Profile View Profile   Reply to OliverDay Reply   Quote OliverDay Quote  
Joined: 11/1/2007

Diamond Member
Diamond Member

Forum Posts:   2328

Site Reviews Total: 24
Site Reviews 2024: 0  
Site Reviews 2023: 0  
Site Reviews 2022: 0  
Site Reviews 2021: 0  
Site Reviews 2020: 0  
Site Reviews 2019: 0  
Site Reviews 2018: 0  
Site Nights 2024: 0
Site Nights 2023: 0
Site Nights 2022: 0
Site Nights 2021: 0
Site Nights 2020: 0
Site Nights 2019: 0
Site Nights 2018: 0

Walk up Pic de Loup. Visit the gardens and Roman tower in Nimes. Get the map in reception and do the walk to Villeview and other places like Junas quarry, Roman water mill and wind mill. Drive to to the via dometia just south of Sommieres and see the Roman town and bridge and also the Oppidium de Nages. Stroll down to the river from the campsite for paddle and maybe a swim.

As well as other places already mentioned.

-------------
Ollie

2016
Monplaisir - Provence
Camping Les Gorges du Loup



In order to post a reply you will need to register, or if already registered please log in here

Prev       Next
Quick Links - All Forums - Caravanning and Camping Abroad - Top of Page

Printer Friendly Version Printable version      Share   Post on X / Twitter  Share on Facebook  Email


Latest News, Discounts and Competitions  see all...














6965 Visitors online !

Free UKCampsite.co.uk Window Sticker  -  Recommend to Friend  -  Add a Missing Campsite

[Message Forums]  [Caravan Sites & Camping]  [Company Listings]  [Features / Advice]  [Virtual Brochure]  [Shop!]
[Reception]  [Competitions]  [Caravans & Motorhomes For Sale]  [Event Diary]  [Contact Us]  [Tent Reviews



Please note we are not responsible for the content of external sites & any reviews represent the author's personal view only. Please report any error here. You may view our privacy and cookie policy and terms and conditions here. All copyrights & other intellectual property rights in the design and content of this web site are reserved to the UKCampsite.co.uk © 1999 - 2024


Advertisement


Advertisement


UKCampsite.co.uk
2024 Advent Calendar


Advent Calendar

24 Daily Prizes PLUS a Christmas Day Star Prize worth £999

Request a Reminder