From now till the end of October, at lots of venues across the region, there are walks, talks, slide shows and more, in a packed programme devoted to nature. If you love flowers, perhaps the…
This first phase in the renaming, launched this week, “permet à chacune et à chacun de proposer un nom et nourrir ainsi la réflexion du «Comité du Nom de la Région», puis de l’Assemblée régionale”. (loosely translated as ‘allows everyone to suggest a name)
The rainy spring had kept the garden growing and the lawn green. Because the house is built on a large outcrop of rock it takes only a few days of rain for our lawn to turn into a lake and the field behind to become sodden. This situation worsened when a water pipe running under the field burst. The water was coming from an old reservoir which we shared with our neighbours and used on the garden during dry spells.
by Martin Bailey Olives remain ever popular and Spain is one of the largest producers. Here’s a recipe which updates this savoury fruit and gives it a kickstart. Serves 3-4 Ingredients 300g jar of…
The ‘wine theme park’, at a cost of 81-million-euro, opened in Bordeaux last week, with the mission ‘to promote and share the cultural, universal and living heritage that is wine with the broadest possible audience……to focus on emotions, sensations and imagination
In 1916 following the battle of the Somme an organization was formed with the aim of fostering friendship and cultural links between the citizens of France and Great Britain. In the UK AFGB has been…
Etiennette Mayneris’ shop in Castelnou is an experience with aromas of fennel, thyme and rosemary mingle with tilleul and laurier and dried bunches of l’immortelles (popular for la Fête de la Saint-Jean)…..
Summer Sales 2016 The summer sales 2016 have been set by the préfecture for a period of 6 weeks starting on Wednesday 22nd June at 8h00 until Tuesday 2nd August. During the sale period,…
Céret town council has recently appointed a private firm to run parking patrols, and locals who live and work in town and rarely move their cars were unpleasantly surprised to find that they’d disappeared. Their first reaction was to report them stolen to the police, only afterwards realising that they’d been towed as they’d been parked in the same spot for over a week.
The border police have confirmed that checks will start up again as part of the security measures for Euro 2016.
