If you’re caught short in the centre of Paris, look out for these bright red, eco-friendly urinals or ‘uritrottoirs’ filled with straw and designed to be odour-free.
A (very brief) HISTORY OF THE PYRENEES-ORIENTALES Finding out a little about the history of the region can teach us where many of the towns and villages of the Pyrénées Orientales got their names. Architectural…
An initial climb of a craggy path followed by an ancient undulating GR10 track to the Col de Llagoste at 255m.
Mar I Muntanya (sea and mountain) is a regional expression for traditional local recipes that combine seafood with meat, poultry, or game. Here is just one of many combinations.
Thuir, lively little town in the Aspres, is probably most famous for the Caves Byrrh.
We often have springtime rain here in the P-O, but none to match the 20th May 1868 in Molitg les Bains when 313 mm fell in one hour.
Who invented the Rousquille? Was it Touron in Arles sur Tech or pastry chef Marius Séguela of Amelie?
Doctor, specialist in the study of birds, beetles and tortoises, accomplished cellist…….
These ‘sandflies’ small, hairy species of mosquito, can carry and transmit leishmaniasis, (pronounced leash man eye a sis)
Typically, somebody with very good English comes up to you at an aire (service station) to tell you that they have been robbed.