With the house finally finished we turned our attention to what we were actually going to do with it. We had been through many ideas, from running a bunk house for walkers, to high-end yoga holidays. We decided on renting the whole house to holidaymakers and I put an advert online.
For a true ‘pieds dans l’eau’ experience. Guinguettes grew up around Paris in the 18th century, small outdoor bars selling cheap white wine known as ‘guingue’, and originally found mainly along the banks of…
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.
Castelnou, along with Eus (near Prades) is officially listed as “un des plus beaux villages de France”.
With the house finally finished we turned our attention to what we were actually going to do with it. We had been through many ideas, from running a bunk house for walkers, to high-end yoga holidays. We decided on renting the whole house to holidaymakers and I put an advert online.
Saint Laurent de Cerdans is well worth a visit any time for its church with tall steeple, its Retirada museum (not as harrowing as the main museum in La Jonquera, but informative and well presented) and its many local walks in the footsteps of escapees from the Spanish Civil War. However the village is best known for its production of the beautiful striped fabric, the “Toiles du Soleil” and its long tradition of hand crafted ‘espadrilles
The new Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées region has come second in France in the Pavillon Bleu awards for the cleanliness of its lakes and beaches, just behind Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur . Fifty two beaches have been awarded the increasingly…
For many industries across the UK, the lead up to June’s European Union referendum is filled with much anticipation, anxiety and speculation. With a potential Brexit just over a month away, one thing that is…
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.
On the afternoon of Christmas Eve I decided to take a break from the kitchen and the tempting calories within, and went for a stroll up our road. Between our house and that of our shepherdess neighbour, I spied a small white van parked haphazardly at the side of the narrow road. Our normally jolly, moustachioed neighbour appeared to be slumped over the wheel.