Languedoc-Roussillon By Hortense Hargreaves From “Le Ciel est Bleu and other poems” February Hills. Through the snow mimosa stretches. Branch upon branch of glistening yellow Reaches towards ‘Canigou’, mountain of church-like splendour. So many…
By Ellen Turner Hall
Two Women of the North – an Arctic Adventure ….a photographic exhibition in Ceret by Jane Henriques Feb 6th – March 3rd 2016. Mediatheque, Ceret Join Jan at the vernissage for her exhibition, is shared with two other…
LE LYCAN BLANC By Phil Becker Phil Becker is 31 and lives in Perpignan. Currently a journalist for the weekly newspaper ‘La Semaine du Roussillon’, he describes himself as a ‘job nomad’. He has done…
In 1911, Picasso and Braques arrived in Céret and began experimenting with Cubism, a painting style that was to revolutionise art.
The hottest 2015 calendar on the block! Eleven gorgeous ladies and one very brave man star in the nuddy, tastefully frozen in time amidst the wines, vines and easels of sunny France. And boy, do they…
‘The sardana: how to dance it’. The Society for International Folk Dancing have just published a book by Brian Bishop, in English, on the Catalan dance, the sardana, entitled ‘The sardana: how…
Dali on Camera A series of 11 previously unpublished photographs of Salvador Dalí have been discovered, taken by Dutch photographer Jan Adam Stevens in 1961. Twenty six years after the death of the eccentric painter,…
How times have changed! Famous writer Ernest Hemingway wrote in ‘Hemingway Finds France is Neutral’ in March 1937 ”I encountered no difficulties over crossing the border, and I am filing this dispatch just before hopping…
FRENCH POEMS TO ENJOY – 6 Midsummer is now upon us with days of oppressive heat and cloudless skies. For more Northern people, it can be hard to take and we often end up panting in…