April mumbles in the mountain 3 With Jenny Rhodes 3 Friday 9th April Sssssh,don’t say a word. Has Spring actually come? I am up here walking on eggshells today in case the weather changes suddenly…
Georges Frêche: a triumph of deeds over dogma 3 The gaff-prone giant of politics carried all before in the Languedoc-Roussillon’s Regional Elections 3 [(I repeat, I am from the South and will remain so. It…
Thursday 5th March The winter is nearly over……well not quite. I am now looking forward to Spring with a passion. I have had enough of the snow and just want some warm weather and green…
“Molló Parc” – new park for nature lovers After several years of work, 12 hectares of la Berneda, in the valley of Camprodon, 7km from *Prats de Mollo, has been transformed into an animal…
Small Great Revolution The Mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu talks of the future high-speed rail links between Spain and France Basil Howitt offers a third update on the high-speed TGV link-in-progress between Perpignan and…
Golf Playing around in Languedoc Roussillon byGeorge Buchan 2006 As a generalisation, the courses I tried in May 2005 were in excellent condition, particularly the greens which were almost always true and…
Tuesday 28th September Arrrgggghhhhh ! I know. September is nearly over! I think aliens must have frozen my head into a time warp which forced it to nod up and down sagely every day and…
Friday 1st October “En octobre, qui n’a pas de manteau, doit en trouver un bientôt.”. A little saying that I’ve picked up and stored away amongst the enormous heaps of useless information stockpiled in my…
Snow shoe walking 3 by Jane Mann 3 There may be one more snow shoe walk this winter. Watch this space! On Tuesday Mike Rhodes led his group onto the chairlift at Formiguères, a wonderful…
Wednesday 3rd March Well, I was intending to start March by informing the world that spring has sprung in the PO but it’s totally wazzing down today and along with the rain, we have had…