Enamoured of both the beauty and long and fascinating history of Port-Vendres, the Great Port Vendres Tapestry Association was started in July 2015 to create a large tapestry of the history of the town.
Bûche de Noël – Suzanne Dunaway shares her PO-inspired recipes in this weekly blog.
An update of local news in the Pyrenees-Orientales
Fancy a bit of crumpet but can’t find them here in France? Why not make them yourself?
Along the same lines as bouillabaisse, but bolder and more colourful, this rustic Catalan fisherman’s stew is traditionally served on Christmas Eve
Trees used to be festively decorated with red apples until a drought in 1858 destroyed the apple harvest.
Lord Guillaume de Cabestany was a troubadour, soldier, poet, and lover of Saurimonde, wife of Raimond de Castell-Rossello and subject of many of his poems
The ‘Père Noel du Secours Populaire’ doesn’t hand out presents, he collects them.
History tells the facts – Art tells the story
God’s largest prison: Albi and its “monstrous mountain of brick” From Rivesaltes station to Albi via Toulouse The first leg of the journey was uneventful, apart from the distant view en route of Carcassonne, bastioned…