2 Building a Bistrot in France: countdown to opening: 2 PART 1 (June) Three months and counting……..(we hope!) End of September 2000 saw us, Tiffany and Dave Smith, embark on a complete change of career,…
[(I met Jenny Rhodes in their deliciously cosy cottage in the heart of Les Angles, just a five minute walk from the ski slopes. Rosy, fun and delightfully chatty, she explained to me that she…
2 DIRTY LINEN AND DODGY WATER 2 [( “Lansac is a large family that washes its dirty linen in public. Will the polls on Sunday act as a large wash tub?” (L’Indépendant 23rd September 2008)]…
Dali fans will be delighted to hear that the musée Dalí in Figueres has just received from London the famous « Métamorphose de Narcisse », painted by the contraversial artist in 1937, on loan for three months.
2 Rennes – Painting the sun 2 3 by Ellen Hall 3 Pots of cactus mark the workshop entrance. Raucous reds, velvety blues and sunny yellows warm the studio walls. Rennes’ cascade of brown ringlets…
New French Driving licences The old pink paper driving licence is to be replaced over several years, starting in 2013 by a new ‘credit card’ style digital licence. New licences will have a photo which…
UPDATE – September 2008 The latest information states that 4 out of the 5 alarms recently tested can be kept in use where they are installed. They should be withdrawn from the market (if…
2 “Poisoning the village” 2 Basil Howitt looks back on an eventful summer in his village of Lansac in the Fenouillèdes; not least because the entire Conseil Municipal resigned in a Pavarotti-pitched screaming match. First,…
September Fete de Mailly – Port Vendres In commemoration of the placing of the first stone of the Obélisque in Port Vendres, on the orders of the Maréchal de France, comte de Mailly,…
Thursday 4th September Que la vie est belle! Thank you, oh ‘great inventor of loads of stuff’, for a) my friend Dave the miracle photographer, b) the photo shop ‘nip’n tuck’ programme, and c) the…