Four unions representing transport workers, including one of France’s largest, CGT Cheminots, have called for a one day train strike on Wednesday 9th March 2016. This will affect train services, but may also…
With over 4,500 working speed cameras already present around France, a further 10,000 DUMMY ones are to be installed over the next months. Watch out too for the ‘radar autonome’ on the A9 amongst the…
Scammers call you, and asks for you by name. Some are English speakers albeit poor ones
Oooops! One of the latest Airbuses, the A321, performing a test flight from Toulouse to Perpignan, landed on Perpignan’s runway 33 but struck its tail onto the runway surface. The aircraft was unable to continue…
Passenger numbers continue to tumble at Girona airport, after a rather black 2015 which recorded a decline of 18%. Initial figures for 2016, show a drop in January of 4.1% compared to January 2015. The…
Cheap Train Travel this Summer If you’re going to be travelling by train this summer, now is the time to buy your tickets as SNCF propose thousands of cut price rail tickets for July…
Register for these free ‘initiation aux gestes qui sauvent’ courses which can help you to save lives by stabilising injured people during those crucial moment before the arrival of the emergency services.
Grabbing a cab here in the P-O is not something that we do unless we have no choice. Not only are they very expensive, particularly compared to mini cabs in Britain, but also most need…
Heading up to the ski slopes this winter? Spare a thought for the 60 or so ‘joncétois’, residents of Joncet who have watched 5000 vehicles per day, many of them lorries, thunder through the tiny village for many a ski season.
According to the Indépendant of 12th January, a couple in Sorède were amazed to see blossom on their cherry tree, followed by a few red cherries……in December. And more have appeared in January. Le monde…