How was the unknown soldier (le Soldat inconnu) chosen?
This year, 2024, marks the 79th anniversary of VE Day, the formal acceptance of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender to the Allies.
If your name is Fanny, just go…and enjoy!
Get your boules out – it’s time for pétanque!
Just when we think that summer is on its way!
Smart urinals’ in the ‘baños para hombres’ at Sants station
Look out for ‘fougasse’, the Catalan version of the Italian ‘focaccia bread’.
The ’11th choc’, is an elite parachute unit roughly equivalent to the British Special Air Service (SAS).
Gégants are enormous painted figures, several metres tall, constructed on a wooden framework with heads made from paper maché and plaster of paris – a tradition which goes back to the Middle Ages, depicting religious figures in parades.
Sanctuary – retreating to Argelès to wind down from his high pressure job as a Scenes of Crime Officer with Scotland Yard, P-O Life reader, Larry Henderson, gives us an insight in to his exciting life