By Ellen Turner Hall For fans of Fauvism’s audacious use of colour, this is the show for you. Joel Desbouiges in his series of paintings “Conversation avec…” has reinterpreted Matisse’s red beaches and orange hills…

The Museum of Modern Art at Collioure and the Walter Benjamin Centre of Contemporary Art have announced that anyone who buys a ticket for either of these institutions will get in to the other one free. The tickets also entitle the holder to reduced rates for guided visits of the two communes organised by the tourist office and the little tourist trains of Perpignan and Collioure.

Our field, which hubby had been carefully tending and which had started to resemble a crown bowling green looked as if a drunk ploughboy on steroids had been let loose on it all night. As well as brown ridges all across the field, the drystone walls which bordered the garden had been knocked down.

Céret town council has recently appointed a private firm to run parking patrols, and locals who live and work in town and rarely move their cars were unpleasantly surprised to find that they’d disappeared. Their first reaction was to report them stolen to the police, only afterwards realising that they’d been towed as they’d been parked in the same spot for over a week.

By Ellen Turner Hall The continued success of the Domaine Piétri-Gérard in Collioure proves that a woman’s place is……. in the vineyard. Laetitia Pietri-Clara, with the halo of curls and playful smile of a Baroque…

Perpignan markets   MARCHE AUX PUCES Flea market Tous les dimanches matin every Sunday morning 7h – 13h45 Avenue du Palais des Expositions BROCANTEURS ET ANTIQUAIRES Antiques and bric-a-brac Tous les samedis every Saturday 8h…

Don’t be, this political upheaval and theatre malarkey will be around for a little while longer yet !! We need new party leaders, one party needs to find its cabinet members, we are waiting for…

Grub-ada The Catalan tradition for an “-ada” or ‘ade’ in French,  denoting a collective meal for many, and based mainly around a single ingredient, often creates some highly unusual, charming and community spirited festivals where…