LES ADVENTURIERS DE ST JEAN NOW OPEN Saint Jean Pla de Corts Look out for signs for Plan d’Eau off the main road from Le Boulou to Saint Jean Pla de Corts, and…
Five years after the death in 2011 of much loved Catalan singer Jordi Barre, his home town of Argelès-sur-Mer, where he he was born in 1920, pays tribute by naming a road after him. The road…
If you lose or find a dog or cat….. …….phone the Indépendant: 04 68 64 88 88 after 5 p.m. and ask for Solange, who runs the Animals Lost & Found column. She’ll put…
Beagle named Eden lost in Collioure on 11 April. Eden is very timid, and slipped his leash on the chemin de la Galère between Collioure and the Fort St Elme. He will be frightened, and…
If you want to find out more about the history and heritage of Argelès, pop into the tourist office, capitainerie, Casa de l’Albera, parc de Valmy and grab yourself a Pass découvertes. It’s free, and…
Those of us who are physically impaired or disabled may well have noticed lately that there are new signs to remind the fit people that these special spaces are reserved parking spaces for the disabled.
The irony is clear. If you take that place, take my disability
Unfortunately this was beyond poor hubby’s capabilities. Time after time he held on for too long, was propelled across a no-entry area, where he flew through the electric cable supplying power to the lift. Each time this happened a whole line of people toppled into the snow, and the lift monitor had to rush up and plug the thing in again.
The Vice President of the new region has suggested that, rather than object that the suggestions for the new name don’t include the idea of “catalan-ness”, the elected representatives should change the name of the department from the Pyrénées-Orientales which doesn’t mean anything particularly pertinent!
At a cost of 9 million pounds to Britain’s tax payers (34p per household), the government has created a new website and published a leaflet, ‘Why the Government believes that voting to remain in the…
Letting Go of Love by Marian Thornley, Céret Buy this book STARTING A NOVEL I’ve always harboured desires to write fiction but like most other people, I never got round to it. But somehow, today…