Friday 5th February What are we all supposed to make of this weather? It changes as much as a woman changes her mind. (Or so it’s said.) Is it a one, two or three vest…
Learn how yoga can be used to help overcome sinus problems
Monday 28th December Well here we are with Christmas a whole month behind us and where has the time gone? I seem to have been washing bedding and cleaning since I don’t know when. I…
The Masked donkey (“Burro Masqué”) Created in summer 2005 by the Catalan nationalist party in Roussillon, the Bloc Catalá, the donkey known as the”Burro Masqué” was a symbol of the successful opposition to Georges Frêche’s…
Collioure loses ‘Doc Martin’ Collioure has lost out to Doëlan in Brittany to become the film location for the broadcasting of popular British television comedy drama ‘Doc Martin’ on TF1 next year. Filmed originally in…
Tir des Aspres: The shooting club with a view. By Jane Mann “Have you ever been shooting?” I was asked. “No, not keen on killing” I replied. “No killing, clay pigeons, very…
We did not intend to buy Angora goats, it just happened. We were visiting a farm in the Dordogne in order to buy a couple of llamas for our land on the outskirts of Ceret.…
Monday 28th December Well that’s Christmas over for another year and I don’t think they put Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on once, which must go down as a first. I have had a houseful of…
Customs allowances from Spain and Le Perthus [(The following allowances are PER CAR, not per person.)] – Cigarettes – 5 cartons (1000 cigarettes) or 20 cartons if you declare them at the customs offices (on…
The documentary described below, now finished, will be screened on Thursday 17th December on Catalan channel TV3 at 23h05 [(Argelès concentration camp)] A moving documentary of the ‘concentration camp’ hastily set up on the beaches…