2 Mountain Mumbles from Jen 2 Saturday 1st November November has blown in with high winds and driving rain. The poor folks on holiday have had a really bad week. A few days ago we…
[(ArtLife with MM Brady)] 2 Garalart – Eclectic selection 2 A new, surprisingly diverse gallery has opened in Céret. Its name is a contraction of Gare A L’Art, as it’s in an old industrial building…
2 NIGHT TRAIN FROM PORT BOU 2 3 by Basil Howitt 3 You may think that this was a daft request. When my wife Clare asked me what I wanted for my 68th birthday, I…
2 Darling, we’re The Young Ones! (Part Two) 2 In this second of two articles John Frazer-Robinson catches up with some more of the younger expats in the PO and discovers what brought them here,…
Friday 7th November Only just realised that it is November! Have just been into Céret with Olivier. He made me hang my head out of the front window like the dog (who had her head…
Albert Woda:Light emerging from shadows by Ellen Hall The first impression of Albert Woda is of an imposing and substantial figure. Once his tall frame relaxes into a chair, you are drawn into the…
When Perpignan’s smelly socks start to stink – the continuing saga! 3 Basil Howitt reports on recent developments in Perpignan’s notorious electoral saga. 3 Perpignan’s current political scene is a boon to any satirist. If…
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)]…