Here in the Mediterranean south of Europe, celebrations start sooner, as the may trees or hawthorns are already bursting into bloom in April.
10 Pin bowling, A’Mature chefs, Birdwatching , Language learning, Yoga, pilates and Zumba, walks, rides and so much more……come and join us
Charles Rennie Mackintosh id well known in Port Vendres but have you heard of his artist friends, Edgar Hereford and Rudolph Ihlee?
Del Boy Trotter, wheeler, dealer, charmer….and linguist!!! ???? We take a look back at his own special brand of the French language!
Get out your walking boots and prepare to discover the hidden delights of Figueres. Come on a market day (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) and bring a stout basket. Forget Dalì for today, but plan to come again midweek in midwinter and spend a day taking in all five museums.
You would think that the shameful, over crowded camps on the P-O beaches would be unlikely places for art to flourish….READ ON
1939 was a difficult year for France. Not only did it experience the indignity of an invasion on its North East border from Hitler’s hordes late in the year, the country suffered a very different incursion in its far South-West in the early months of the year.
French journalist and fiction writer Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (1868 -1927) is best known for writing the novel ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ (Le Fantôme de l’Opéra), first published in 1909
A 16th Century poet, Joachim du Bellay, wrote this charming little sonnet, celebrating the fun of Shrove Tuesday and Carnival
The present exhibition at L’Espace des Arts in Le Boulou is dedicated to the works, past and present, of Michel Fourquet.