Montpellier
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Montpellier is a nice Mediterranean city of France, with 300 members (in June 2008). Since it's a big leg in any journey from Europe to popular Barcelona by train, people here receive a lot of couch surfing requests.
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Meetings
Meetings are held by the local group every first week of the month. More gatherings irregularly happen, whether it's for theater, coffee, beach or restaurant. Just check out what's up on the group ("couchsurfers of Montpellier").
Meetings organiser
Mailing List
There is no mailing lists for all members of Montpellier (just one for the group "couchsurfers of Montpellier"....but not all the members are included in the group!).
Tips
Sites de dons (in french)
http://www.recupe.net/ http://www.journaldugratuit.com/don/ Et un groupe yahoo consacré à Montpellier ou il faut s'inscrire: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MontpellierFreecycle/
Great spots CS hosts usually suggest to have a look at in and around Montpellier.
Place de la Comédie and Esplanade du Corum. Jardin Botanique. Esplanade du Peyrou. Quartier d'Antigone. Musée Fabre. St Guillem le désert (by bus), le pont du diable, la grotte de Clamousse. Le ravin des Arcs (car needed). La Cathédrale de Villeneuve-les-Maguelone, at Villeneuve-les-Maguelone (bus and bike). Many surrounding cities easily accessible by train (Sete, Agde, Nimes, Avignon, Orange...). Pomme de Reinette (toy shop, 33 rue de L'aiguillerie, downtown). Zoo du Lunaret. L'Aquarium "Mare Nostrum".
Couch
Montpellier group has a dedicated sub group for finding a couch by sending mass request here: http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=12345 Reminder: asking for a couch on groups is considered very impolite unless it is on specifically dedicated groups!
Phone
Internet
Many Internet café can be found around the train station.
Finding a place to live (not a couch)
Montpellier's population growth is among the greatest in France, and many CS users contact the locals to find a place to rent for studies... Here is some tips when looking for a place to rent:
Finding free classifieds (appartments and house sharing):
Locations de vacances - Vacation rental
There is no use for paying sites such as colocation.fr, appartager.com ...
If in town you can consult ads at La Boutique Logement (1 bis, rue de la Vieille) and Espace Montpellier Jeunesse (6 rue Maguelone ).
If you want to use real estate professional you may want to avoid Immobis or Foncia.
Finally there's also the Youth hostel (but many people are not very satisfied with it) and family stay.
Transport
Montpellier has a very enjoyable carfree center. It is thus a good pick to visit it using anything but a car.
Getting to the city and visiting takes two steps: Train station is located right in the center of the town. From there you can visit the whole downwtown just by walking.
Beach is 15km away from Montpellier. Roads, cycle lanes and buses can get you there. This site (in French) has info on getting to the beach from Montpellier with no car.
You can find more info about transport on wikitravel.
CouchSurfers
Coffee or a drink
Media Mentions
- This article is a stub. You can help by expanding it.
Have a look at the wikipedia Montpellier page.[1]
Wikitravel has all the useful information.[2] wikitravel:Montpellier
