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.
Riverchurch in Perpignan had a new pastor with effect from January this year, a Scotsman Moray McKay. Before moving to France in 1998, Moray was for nine years full-time leader of an Ichthus Christian Fellowship congregation in Carshalton, London. He trained at Moorlands College, Christchurch, Dorset from 1986-89 having previously worked for HSBC bank in London.
Linda Shepherd, founder of Cancer Support France (CSF) in 2002, when she was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer, has died at the age of 64.
When we bought Mas Pallagourdi in 2007, in the local tradition, the owner had walked us around the boundary, past a collection of bee hives. “Attention!” he said, raising his hand so that we wouldn’t walk any closer. “They are wild bees, strong bees! Do you want them?”
CSF Sud de France is a French registered charitable association which aims to provide support for English speaking people living in the Aude, Ariège, P-O, Tarn and Tarn et Garonne (east) and who are affected by cancer. This may be as a patient, a family member or carer.
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.
Look out for the new € 50 banknote, in circulation from 4 April 2017 as part of the gradual renewal of the European currency. It was presented by the European Central Bank (ECB) on 5 July 2016..
The Conflent Tales Volumes 1 and 2 are now available in paperback editions. This has to be the best news since the liberation of France.
The wearing of a bicycle helmet is now compulsory for children under 12 years of age, regardless of whether they are drivers or passengers.
Starting on March 25th, the Paris Beauvais Béziers Cap d’Agde flights will resume all year round!