Le chassé-croisé des juillettistes et des aoûtiens’ describes the traffic chaos on the roads of France late July/early August
Just across the border in Ventallo, the Fundacio Perramon is a jewel of a museum displaying over 150 works by contemporary Catalan artists.
If you have ever ridden your bike over puncturevine seeds or even worse, stepped on them with bare feet, you will understand exactly how they got their name!
Along the coast between Canet en Roussillon and Saint Cyprien, you will find the best walking, and picturesque fishermen’s “village” with ancient huts that have been refurbished with traditional materials, including reeds that are abundant here.
School holidays in France are organised according to three “holiday zones”, A, B and C, in order to manage the flow of French holidaymakers.
What’s your experience of driving in France? How does it compare to where you learnt to drive? Here’s a few observations of life on the road in the P-O
An extraordinary collection of works produced by the crazy, the unattached and the marginal, the Museum of Art Brut is a true delight in this all-too-rational world.
Some Tour de France french vocab to help you follow the race.
Osmose represents the interaction between the two artistic universes of sculptor Agnes Bogaert and painter Christelle Romulus, currently at the Domaine Claire Mayol in Port Vendres.
Did you know that if you don’t sign an ‘opt out’ register, your organs can automatically be used for transplant after death?