Restaurant Review Spring 2015 With Kate and Mates I am no gourmet ‘foodie’ but I know what I like. Fresh, tasty food, good and friendly service, clean cutlery, crockery and loos, and prices that…
by Eugene Barter (Reviewed by Katja Willemsen) Take two dollops of Peter Mayle, add a generous measure of Julia Child, drizzle with red wine then simmer slowly under sunny skies for seven years. The…
The white-hot, eleven-year love affair between Louis XIV and his second Maîtresse en Titre, Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. Among her many nicknames were La Reine Sultane, The Diamond Marquise, The Beautiful Enchantress, The Torrent, and Quanto.
Bill was anxious to fence the land so that we could have animals. After all, this was one of the main reasons for us moving to France and buying a place with six acres. The vague wave of the arm and words of the previous owner, “it’s over there somewhere” had not really helped to clarify where the boundary actually was. And we were far too scared to ask the neighbours who had been watching our every move through binoculars.
One of the loveliest places round here is the Donezan so we headed towards it, up through Axat and the Haute Vallée of the Aude. This valley is a series of precipitous limestone gorges, with wonderful deciduous forests, with ash, maple, beech and elm covering the sides of the gorges and the Aude, so full of water again, rushing briskly down stream, feeding the several power stations on its way.
with Fiona Warren I frequently mention the benefits of getting in early to organise and plan money transfers as efficiently as possible. The graph below shows the GBP/EUR pairing for the last 30 days…..as you…
Chamber of Commerce & Chambre des Métiers The Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie ( CCI), and the Chambre des Métiers both help out in the creation or development of any business activity and…
Easter Sunday the 27th March at 10am Holy Communion 10.00 am St.George’s Church, Rue du Temple, Vernet-les-Bains. The service is in English and is open to all whatever your denomination…. or none. Please come and…
Most people are perfectly capable of taking themselves off for a walk in the countryside, but have you ever considered what you might be missing? Do you sometimes wish you could find out the origins of a church you’ve passed, or be able to name that familiar wildflower and butterfly? Or more seriously have you ever got lost, got caught out in a thunderstorm or after dark unintentionally? All the more reason to hire a qualified guide, an International Mountain Leader (IML) or ‘Accompagnateur’
The status of ’auto-entrepreneur’ has been available since 2009, allowing individuals to set up small businesses in France, and designed in theory to simplify the process of registering and running a small sole-trader businesses. It…