SAUSAGES: Christmas market orders. For my last delivery of the year I will be in St Jean pla de Corts. All of the details are in the poster attached.
Gift Collection for local Children 14th November – 16th December Because every child deserves a happy Christmas, the town of Argelès-sur-Mer is organising a gift collection in the foyer of the Mairie. From today and running…
Buy a calendar to help sick kids
Flodama, a local video production company, has teamed up with Joa Joie, an association to help hospitalised children, to produce a calendar to raise funds for the cause.
with MM Brady From assemblies of legislatures that convene under them to zoological collections housed by them, domes signal unusual venues round the world. France has many, including Le Dôme restaurant, an Art Déco masterpiece…
The group ‘Oui au pays catalan’ ask you to help to keep the region’s Catalan identity by writing to your local mairie and asking for them to put up a ‘Pays Catalan’ sign next to the entrance of your town or village – if it doesn’t have one already.
Our friend Jo had done the unthinkable. She had organised her own death, which was to take place in Switzerland at the offices of Dignitas. She’d asked Arthur if he wanted in on the ticket. “I can negotiate two for the price of one?” she said, referring to her days as a buyer.
with John Fairclough This is my first Airport Review since the momentous Brexit vote in June. Of course, the airports and airlines had already fixed their Winter 2016-17 flight schedules long before this, and so far,…
Journalist Phil Becker lives in Perpignan and works for « La Semaine du Roussillon », following a series of temporary jobs in Pyrénées-Orientales. He describes himself as a ‘job nomad’. He has done a bit of everything… but finds stability in writing
Here is the latest update (November 18th) with a recap of all flights on sale from/to Carcassonne & Perpignan for Winter 2016/2017 & Summer 2017.
So far, Jo had figured a great deal in our Ceret story. In the early days, when we couldn’t speak the language and hadn’t a clue how things worked, she’d gone to extraordinary lengths to help us and along the way we’d become firm friends. I thought long and hard about including this part of what happened to her in this blog, but came to the conclusion that she would have preferred to have had her story told. I hope that it will be taken in the spirit in which it is written, a homage to a dear friend.