For those of us fortunate enough to live in this wonderful part of the world, the opportunities for fair weather golf are almost limitless. I mainly concern myself with courses within a fifty kilometre radius south of Perpignan because there really isn’t any need to look further.
Fiona of Currencies Direct tells us….. I am really happy to report that the news back from the French Property Exhibition at London’s Olympia this weekend was very positive! The show was very busy, and…
Don’t just say something is ‘très bien’ Say it is…..Cool…Super…Extra…Exceptionnel…Extraordinaire…Formidable…Génial…Nickel (slang)…Remarquable…Sensationnel
Organised by the Hyacinthe Rigaud Art Museum, A Portrait of Power: Yes I Can will run until 16th October and is exhibited at the Benjamin Walter Centre of Contemporary Art
with Gill Storey Les gorges de Saint-Jaume. Walking in the valley is good. The Gorge is superb. Three miles of deep valley, dug out by the St Jaume River. It is cool and secret, and…
6 months suspended + fine for 40 hectares
On 18th July, A 35 year old man lit a barbecue on some family land that he, his sister and friends had cleared that morning and ended up setting fire to 40 hectares of land at Maureillas, as well as the A9 motorway.
One day in July we saw a huge billowing cloud of smoke coming from the direction of the Spanish border. A fire had started after someone had thrown a cigarette butt out of a car window in Le Perthus.
The olive tree was first noted, growing wild, more than 14,000 years ago and fossilised leaves going back as early as 8,00BC have been found in Roquevaire.
The Art of Perpignan… …… is never to be what you’re expecting by Simon Newman Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you turn a corner to reveal yet another narrow lane or small…
Walter Benjamin The ‘Centre d’Art Contemporain de Perpignan’ was named after Walter Benjamin, (1892 – 1940) German-Jewish literary critic and art historian, posthumously one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers. A memorial dedicated to…