Jimi Hendrix Lives On in Passa   Patrick Bellegarde, mayor de Passa, near Thuir, and big Jimi Hendrix fan, is naming one of the streets of a new housing estate ‘avenue Jimi Hendrix’ –…

    Le département of the Pyrénées-Orientales is now divided into 17 cantons (administrative districts).   Canton 1 (Les Aspres) Banyuls-dels-Aspres, Brouilla, Caixas, Calmeilles, Camélas, Castelnou, Fourques, Llauro, Llupia, Montauriol, Oms, Passa, Pollestres, Ponteilla, Saint-Jean-Lasseille,…

If you travel about 15 kilometres north from Perpignan, by train or on the N9, you come to another frontier town, Salses-le-Château, beyond which you are again in the land of the “gabatx”: this time in the Aude département of the Languedoc. The two adjoining communes to the north and west of Salses are Fitou and Opoul-Périllos.

 Once again, bogus police have been calling on people in the Perpignan area, and surrounding villages, preying particularly on the elderly as these type of cowards so often do. One of the bogus police scams…

  On the snail trail Do snails eat chocolate?   At the height of the Roman Empire Romans found snails highly nutritious and farmed them extensively. The French are renowned worldwide for their snail eating.…

Love ’em or hate ’em, everyone should know a little bit about scorpions shouldn’t they? And the news is better than you would expect. Apparently, the black ones which look quite mean are not actually…

  A VERY GENERAL LOOK AT YOUR INCOME TAX OBLIGATIONS IN FRANCE     REMINDER Online tax declarations are now open for 2014 income. Income tax forms will be sent out in April. Deadlines differ,…