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Emergency Siren network

Kate 24/02/2025 2 Comments

If you are treated to a blast of the emergency sirens which blare out regularly around the region, don’t panic or head for the shelters!

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P-O Naturally- Winter 2023 – 24

Laura McLellan 24/02/2025 0 Comments

Have you been paying attention? As usual in winter, we take a quizzical look over last year’s articles – with one or two extra questions thrown in!

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A PLAGUE ON YOU! VALLSERA

Kate 20/02/2025 0 Comments

Tread carefully on your way up to the ski slopes this winter.

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La Retirada

Madeleine McMullin 19/02/2025 0 Comments

The Retirada. Nearly half a million Spanish civilians and soldiers fled to France. The P-O authorities were unprepared and hostile.

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Choosing Your Electric Bike

Laura McLellan 18/02/2025 2 Comments

E-bikes are economical, ecological and accessible to all fitness levels, allowing you to put in as much, or as little, effort as you wish – and such fun on the many safe and dedicated bike tracks around the P-O

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Dossier Médical Partagé – what is it? UPDATE

Laura McLellan 17/02/2025 2 Comments

The Dossier Medical Partagé (DMP) is a free, confidential and secure health record that stores your information in one centralised, digital location.

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Walk: l’Hermitage de Notre Dame de la Consolation

Kate 16/02/2025 0 Comments

The track steadily rises and the full impact of nature’s realm becomes apparent as every conceivable moth and butterfly species from blue to swallow tail flit freely in abundance.

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La Retirada – a memorial walk

Laura McLellan 15/02/2025 0 Comments

Following our recent articles on la Retirada, a P-O Life reader very kindly contacted us with photos and memories of a hike that they undertook back in 2017.

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Celebrating Spring, it’s Carnaval!

Laura McLellan 15/02/2025 2 Comments

Shake off the cold dark winter and welcome in spring with the bright, colourful, topsy turvy world of carnaval in the Pyrénées-Orientales

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Art and the Retirada

Kate 12/02/2025 0 Comments

You would think that the shameful, over crowded camps on the P-O beaches would be unlikely places for art to flourish….READ ON

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