The boars are back in town It may sound a little like a song I once knew but ‘the boars are back in town’ For the past few years, wild boar have got…
[(Wednesday 8th July 2009)] 2 Le Tour de France – STAGE FIVE Cap D’Agde – Perpignan 2 3 Paul Francis reports. 3 Stage five of Le Tour de France began in Cap D’Agde. I was…
Estagel art – Clare Gallaway exhibits….. The paintings of locally-based watercolour artist Clare Gallaway are on view (and on sale) throughout the year in the Restaurant of Hotel Le Plein Sud, Estagel. Since coming to…
Tightening up of prostitution in public La Jonquera has announced stiff fines (no pun intended) of up to 3000 euros for prostitutes, and their clients conducting their business in public. The…
Mother Nature Needs Your Help! By Ellen Hall A free outdoor photography exhibit ( from 3 April to 27 September) has been installed on the promenade of Argeles Plage. Large panels with stunning images…
It is obvious that Odile and Yves have, once again, chosen a programme of great originality and variety for the Festival and that everyone who has not already booked should ring 04 6853 1000…
[(ArtLife with MM Brady)] 2 Garalart – Eclectic selection 2 A new, surprisingly diverse gallery has opened in Céret. Its name is a contraction of Gare A L’Art, as it’s in an old industrial building…
2 DIRTY LINEN AND DODGY WATER 2 [( “Lansac is a large family that washes its dirty linen in public. Will the polls on Sunday act as a large wash tub?” (L’Indépendant 23rd September 2008)]…
Dali fans will be delighted to hear that the musée Dalí in Figueres has just received from London the famous « Métamorphose de Narcisse », painted by the contraversial artist in 1937, on loan for three months.
2 “Poisoning the village” 2 Basil Howitt looks back on an eventful summer in his village of Lansac in the Fenouillèdes; not least because the entire Conseil Municipal resigned in a Pavarotti-pitched screaming match. First,…