First week in December – Not a good weekend to pop across the border!
With Christmas just around the corner, many of us will be starting to think about presents, and while we are all supporting local businesses where we can, it’s likely that we’ll need to do some cross-border posting at some point. Unless you’ve a direct line to Père Noël, things can get pricey.
A simple reference point for keeping track of who’s striking when and how you may be affected.
What Gaieté du Feu don’t know about choosing and installing stoves just isn’t worth knowing!
Despite lower temperatures, rain, and storms, firemen are still called out several times to deal with winter fires, mainly caused by ‘écobuages’ gone wrong.
An update of local news in the Pyrenees-Orientales
The former ‘Maison Mazard’ in Le Soler, now destroyed, was a safe house for Dutch refugees, Jews and resistance members fleeing the nazis in the 1930s.
Toussaint, Castanyadas, Armistice 1918 and how The Unknown Soldier was chosen, and poor old ladies of over twenty-five….
We are looking for someone with a bubbly personality, able to communicate in both English and French, to join the P-O Life team.
The annual ‘trêve hivernale’ (winter truce), starts from the Ist November and ends 31st March.
