A short travel story on Collioure, in Southern France. Most of the coast down here is unfortunately either bland - or downright ugly. This village is neither, its picturesque little alleyways together with the beautiful bays of the 'Cote Vermillion' still look a lot like they did a century ago, when Henri Matisse and his fellow painters took shelter in the foothills of the Pyrenees. The cover image is taken from Wikimedia Commons, copyright by citevia.