Applying for planning Permission in France Thinking of extending, renovating, installing a pool, building a garage? If you have already run the French bureaucracy gauntlet, it will come as no surprise to you to…
Register for these free ‘initiation aux gestes qui sauvent’ courses which can help you to save lives by stabilising injured people during those crucial moment before the arrival of the emergency services.
Languedoc-Roussillon By Hortense Hargreaves From “Le Ciel est Bleu and other poems” February Hills. Through the snow mimosa stretches. Branch upon branch of glistening yellow Reaches towards ‘Canigou’, mountain of church-like splendour. So many…
By Ellen Turner Hall
As Christmas approached the previous owner of our mas and his two daughters prepared to move out of The Other End. We were highly excited to see (for only the second time) the rest of the house that we had purchased. And not more than a little curious to see how they had been living all these months.
reviewed by Louise Sayers 2014 Elne is often overlooked by visitors to the area but it was once the capital of Roussillon and has an interesting history, including the cathedral and cloisters, the Terrus…
Prats de Mollo Only 13 kilometers away from the Spanish border, situated on the south face of the Canigou,this walled town is a delight of narrow cobbled streets and ancient medieval architecture. With only 1,100…
Two Women of the North – an Arctic Adventure ….a photographic exhibition in Ceret by Jane Henriques Feb 6th – March 3rd 2016. Mediatheque, Ceret Join Jan at the vernissage for her exhibition, is shared with two other…
So Véret Céret… Opened in 1927 as a ‘cooperative’ by local workers, Le France is very much an institution in Céret. Many of us have whiled away a pleasant hour beneath the shady platanes of…
While a lot of birds are declining in so many places, goldfinches, according to the January issue of BBC Wildlife, seem to be on the up – in Britain at least. They quote a “91…