66 Petites Histoires du Pays Catalan
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66 Petites Histoires du Pays Catalan
I recently picked up this small book, it is written by a local librarian and contains short interesting bits of history about various places in the PO. Anybody heard about le Prix Jean S. Barès from the Touring Club de France? Quite a price to win as below...
"Les conditions d'attribution de ce prix sont assez originales. Il faut être guide pyrénéen ou veuve d'un tel guide, habiter à plus de 500 mètres d'altitude et être le père ou la mère d'au moins sept enfants vivants et tous nés à plus de 500 mètres d'altitude également."
... not perhaps surprisingly, the price no longer exits!
"Les conditions d'attribution de ce prix sont assez originales. Il faut être guide pyrénéen ou veuve d'un tel guide, habiter à plus de 500 mètres d'altitude et être le père ou la mère d'au moins sept enfants vivants et tous nés à plus de 500 mètres d'altitude également."
... not perhaps surprisingly, the price no longer exits!
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Back in the day, there was not much else to do, after dark, when you were 500m up the Pyrenees.
I got a “closed†scholarship at University which was primarily for sons of widows of CoE clergy with a parish in Westmoreland. If that class was empty, the rules were successively relaxed until they found someone who qualified: I got in at about level 6 which was, roughly, “not Catholic, and born north of Watfordâ€.
I had previously sat the exam for an “open†scholarship, and failed dismally. I already had a place on my A levels, and the last thing I wanted to do was burnish my (“publicâ€) school’s marketing materials.
I got a “closed†scholarship at University which was primarily for sons of widows of CoE clergy with a parish in Westmoreland. If that class was empty, the rules were successively relaxed until they found someone who qualified: I got in at about level 6 which was, roughly, “not Catholic, and born north of Watfordâ€.
I had previously sat the exam for an “open†scholarship, and failed dismally. I already had a place on my A levels, and the last thing I wanted to do was burnish my (“publicâ€) school’s marketing materials.