The show must go on! In spite of torrential storms during this year’s Fête des Vendanges at Banyuls-sur-Mer, the Fanfare Bands played on, à la Titanic. Basil Howitt reports. In our part of the world,…

Who would be a vigneron? Amidst the general doom and gloom in the caves cooperatives of France’s largest wine producing region – the Languedoc-Roussillon – there are several reasons for hope. Basil Howitt’s report finishes…

Georges Frêche: a triumph of deeds over dogma 3 The gaff-prone giant of politics carried all before in the Languedoc-Roussillon’s Regional Elections 3 [(I repeat, I am from the South and will remain so. It…

  Small Great Revolution The Mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu talks of  the future high-speed rail links between Spain and France Basil Howitt offers a third update on the high-speed TGV link-in-progress between Perpignan and…

2 More scandals from the Roussillon, otherwise known as “Le Far West de la Politique” (“The Wild West of Politics”) 2 Basil Howitt reports on a new twist in the notorious Saint-Cyprien saga. He also…

“Quel gâchis!” (What a waste!) Basil Howitt’s otherwise idyllic summer was marred only by the relentless dumping of fruit and vegetables at local supermarket entrances and elsewhere. [([epigraph]: With these actions we are reduced to…

Smelly socks – final story (we hope) [(Alduy, c’est Perpignan, et Perpignan, c’est Alduy. Bravo Monsieur le Maire ! (blogger Huascar: 21/06/2009 à 22h08))] Basil Howitt closes Perpignan’s saga of the smelly socks. Fortunately last…

Glad to be back! After a rare visit to his native city of Manchester, Basil Howitt was thrilled to touch down once more at Perpignan airport and be whisked back to his adoptive village of…