As usual, PO Life brings you walks, restaurant reviews, recipes, airport news, French and English language exercises, silly jokes, days out…… and a host of talented guest writers who have volunteered (or been volunteered) to be your personal guides around the region.
Some time ago I set myself a personal goal of replacing the usual supermarket sourced inhabitants of my wine cellar with P-O wines.
The Winter sales 2017 have been set by the préfecture for a period of 5 weeks starting on Wednesday 11th January at 8h00 until Tuesday 21st February
Trade unions have called for another nationwide, general strike on Thursday 19th October to protest against the proposed reforms to the loi de travail (working regulations).
A year and a half in the making, beleaguered with delays… the long-awaited indoor markets in the centre of Perpignan are finally open for business.
Nearly 1/4 of Ryanair pilots have voted to take strike action on Tuesday 20th December at a time that will cause maximum disruption to Christmas travellers.
We love publishing your reviews. They’re honest (mostly!) objective, (hopefully) unrelated to advertising (bien sûr!) and cover a wide range of tastes, prices, and places. You might not always agree, the chef might be having a bad day, your standards might be higher….or lower – but they give you an idea of what’s available.
The Restos du Cœur, French charity which provides food packages and free meals to the poor and homeless, are looking for volunteers
You know how it is don’t you? When someone asks a question you’ve had a hundred times already in the last month. It’s at a dinner party and you have to somehow resist the overwhelming urge to stab them in the eye with your fork. That’s how it was immediately after we returned to the UK after eleven years in the PO. That question? “So, what made you come back then?” Arrrgggghhhhhh!!!!
Dubbed as the French Elvis, with leather biker jackets, husky voice, craggy face, wide boy swagger, little boy smile, Johnny Hallyday, known simply as ‘Johnny’, has left us.