Retirement can last 30 years or more. To help us enjoy these well-earned years and have peace of mind, we all need to plan ahead, build up our savings and then protect them for our long-term future
Garlic is valued as much for its medicinal properties as its flavouring, and has been cultivated for so long that it is impossible to be sure of its country of origin. Use it in this typically French soup.
Buying or selling property probably involves dealing with the largest amount of money you are ever likely to handle, unless you’re a mega-wealthy tycoon! So you need to get it right!
Caroline Oliver of Trilles Immobilier gives us some tips, checks and questions to ask to find the right agent.
An update of local news in the Pyrenees-Orientales
If you’re lucky, once you get to the airport, there isn’t really that much to say: but sometimes it doesn’t all run quite so smoothly, particularly in winter, and its useful to have a bit of local lingo to find out what’s going on.
An update of local news in the Pyrenees-Orientales
Ascension weekend 12th to 16th May. Heavy traffic expected on French roads.
We all know that the P-O is a wine haven with bottles to suit all palettes and budgets…. but did you know, one of our local wine domains, les Vignobles de Terrassous, is breaking new ground, having been awarded the very first “oenorandonnée” (wine walking) label in the département.
WALK THE REGION Le Coronat from Jujols with Mike Rhodes The spectacular walled town of Villefranche de Conflent is well known to residents of the P-O but above the crags that tower over this…
Painted in the Catalan colours of ‘sang et or’ (blood red and gold), le petit train jaune was built at the beginning of the century in order to link the towns and villages high up in the mountains with Perpignan and Prades, the principal administrative towns. It links Villefranche-de-Conflent with La Tour de Carol, is 63 km long, and made up of wooden compartments with bench seating.