LOCAL NEWS

03/08/2016 0 Comments

Woman saved by cat

Somebody set fire to a mobile home in the garden of a house in the hamlet of Palol near Céret where the 21 year old daughter of the owner was asleep. The mother, asleep in the main house woke to the sound of shouting, helped her daughter douse the flames and then rang the police, who found an empty petrol can nearby and the traces of a 4×4 on the ground adjacent. The daughter had been woken by her cat who had jumped on her. She could not explain who might have wanted her dead.

Sam Laidlow, Triathlon Junior European Cup

01/08/2016 0 Comments

Sam Laidlow ETU (EUROPEAN TRIATHLON UNION) Triathlon Junior European Cup  Despite a tricky winter’s training programme, hindered in no small way by some ankle ligament damage, and juggling studying for his Bac S (French A-levels), on Sunday…

RODELLA DE MONTBOLO

30/07/2016 0 Comments

30th JULY The origin of this procession goes back to 1465 when a shepherd of Montbolo called Noguer de GASNACH had a vision at the Col de la Porta (Col de Formentere). In this vision,…

THE CERET DIARIES Part 30 : The Good Life

27/07/2016 0 Comments

As I’ve described in previous blogs, hubby and I arrived in Ceret with hazy, idealistic visions of what we intended to achieve with our large, rambling house and its seven acres of land. In those early days, the ideas flew thick and fast: a straw bale building, a yurt, solar generation of electricity, a windmill, recycling of the grey water. As well as restoring the house and cutting down the thickets of brambles, there was a lot on hubby’s list.

LOCAL NEWS

27/07/2016 0 Comments

False Black Widow spider found in Ria Sirach

A pest control company from Rivesaltes was in Ria Sirach to get rid of insects when the director, Patrick Salvat noticed an unusual spider’s web and went to investigate. Mr. Salvat is an arachnophile, but he’d never seen a spider like it. He took some photos and went home to look it up on the internet.

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