This poem is said to be the first Valentine written in any language. The spelling has been modernised. The translation is based on Charles d’Orleans’ own version.
During the Retirada, Spanish Republicans fleeing the Franco regime poured over the border into the P-O. But it wasn’t just people, many important pieces of artwork joined the exodus.
Did you know that Rudyard Kipling wrote a short story during one of his stays in Vernet-les-Bains in 1911? ‘Why does it snow in Vernet’ pokes fun at the English habit of talking about the weather.
It was an adorable four-legged fellow called Jupi who started my love affair with Pyrénées-Orientales.
The legend of Fenouil and Fenouille was so familiar along the coast that Minister Jules Pams arranged for a statue be put up in Port Vendres to immortalise the lovers.
FRENCH POEMS La Cigale et la Fourmi with Gill Storey Autumn is over, winter is now well underway. The grapes have been gathered and the villages are redolent with the smell of crushed grapes –…
A collection of P-O inspired haiku poems.
A new three-part documentary film on the “Disparues de la gare de Perpignan”, is due to be broadcast in early 2024 on TF1’s Grands Reportages program.
House of the Rising Sun or Le Pénitencier, sung here in French by Johnny Hallyday
On the Icehouse trail is an excerpt from Colin Duncan Taylor’s latest book, Menu from the Midi: A Gastronomic Journey through the South of France