P-O Quiz – test your French. How much do you know you know about knowing? What about those unknown knowns? Are you a know-it-all or a know-nothing? Try your luck and find out!
A garden is forgiving, that I can attest to, since it gave in to my hopeful planting of radishes two months ago in winter and pushed up enough of the little devils to eat with butter and make me feel successful as a gardener.
Lesley McLaren takes a quizzical look back over past articles – with a few extra questions thrown in for good measure!
Along the coast between Canet en Roussillon and Saint Cyprien, you will find the best walking, and picturesque fishermen’s “village” with ancient huts that have been refurbished with traditional materials, including reeds that are abundant here.
Too many cherries? Cherry Brandy anyone?
Out for the Day… in Eyne, the Valley of Flowers. Need a tonic? How about fresh mountain air, kaleidoscopes of wild flowers, serene mouflon and shy izzards grazing, bubbling water features, bumblebees, butterflies and beetles, maybe even a little late snow?
At this time of year the P-O transforms into a kaleidoscope of wildflowers. Lesley McLaren takes us through a few of the more common ones to be found in the verges, hedgerows and rocky slopes of the Albères and Vallespir.
To find out where the risk of being ‘mozzied’ is the greatest, take a look at vigilance moustiques which points out the areas most at risk, along with loads of other useful info about the nasty little critturs.
It’s all go! Migrant birds are returning from their winter homes and mammals are getting frisky; reptiles are emerging and bugs are flying. There are territories to be claimed and defended, mates to attract, nests to build, setts to clean, burrows to renovate, young to feed. And the backdrop to this frenetic activity is a landscape transformed into countless shades of green.
Walk the Region. Notre Dame de Pène/ Calce circular Well signed route with yellow waymark signs.