Ever wondered why your rolex was only 25 euros, and your Nike trainers a mere 30 euros over the border?
Well, if you’ve noticed quite a few shops closed down over the past few months in Le Perthus/La Jonquera, around 50 in all, it’s because they were ‘fermées pour contrefaçons’ – closed for selling counterfeit goods, and are only just being allowed to reopen now.
Growing up between the game reserves in South Africa and the wilderness of the Australian outback, Ian Pendry discovered a love for nature early on in life. At university in Sheffield he met Angela, an international mountain bike racer and skilled ski mountaineer. The rest, as they say, is history.
Carole Delga has announced the creation of a ‘marque ombrelle’ to be known as ‘Pays Catalan’ – a term that has already been used for many years by many of the tourisme agencies of the region when referring to the Pyrénées-Orientales.
Perpignan restaurant’s beef best in France
Le Divil and its wonderful well-hung meat has been chosen as the best in France.
Fancy yourself on the big screen? A new project, being filmed in Prats de Mollo from 28th February to 2nd March, is looking for extras to complete its team. There is no specific criteria except…
Saffron production is a labour of love – a process so labour intensive that it is hardly surprising that the fiery coloured spice is the most expensive in the world.
In 2016, a section of the mobile ‘radars nouvelle génération’ manned at present by the police, was handed over to “prestataires agréés”, approved, private service suppliers.
In the living memory of the elderly are brothers and fathers going off to one or other to war, and the stories of those who never returned.
Un tremblement de terre not only sounds exactly like the thing it is (an earthquake) but to my English ear there are echoes of a deliciously kitsch, end of the pier sauciness resonating too – like something out of an old Les Dawson sketch.
We all know ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ but have you watched the French equivalent ‘La France a un incroyable talent’?
Well, It’s coming to Perpignan for the first time so this could be your chance to shine!