Cheap Train Travel this Summer If you’re going to be travelling by train this summer, now is the time to buy your tickets as SNCF propose thousands of cut price rail tickets for July…
A Piano in the Pyrenees by Tony Hawks Reviewed by Polly Cannie Fans of irreverent quiz shows such as Have I Got News for You and Never Mind the Buzzcocks will recognise Tony Hawks as…
Watch out for a documentary, released last October 2015, dedicated entirely to the Canigou! Entitled «Renaissance», this one hour long documentary produced by perpignanais Olivier Moulaïwill, follows two archaeologists who cross the Pyrénées to try and uncover…
As arranged, the workers from the Mairie turned up in not one but two lorries.
With a great deal of good humour they sorted the rubbish into different recyclable materials, loaded up their vehicles, swept the lawn and bid us goodbye. All that without asking for a penny (more humble pie for hubby).
Bunyetes d’amour (or Chocolate marzipan love cakes!) NOT QUITE SURE WHAT THESE HAVE TO DO WITH THE ORIGINAL CATALAN BUNYETES….. BUT THEY SOUND DELICIOUS! 20 minutes + 15 minutes in the oven + 30…
Espace des Art, Le Boulou. Opening night – Friday 19th February 2016 from 18h Dorothy Wedderburn was born in Northern Nigeria, and grew up surrounded by a rich mixture of space, colours, patterns and textures providing…
Evelyne de Wangen is a very talented lady. She is an artist, potter, interior designer landscape gardener, builder, plumber, electrician, cute cushion creator, chic clothing designer, jewellery and furniture maker and restorer….in fact she is…
Applying for planning Permission in France Thinking of extending, renovating, installing a pool, building a garage? If you have already run the French bureaucracy gauntlet, it will come as no surprise to you to…
Register for these free ‘initiation aux gestes qui sauvent’ courses which can help you to save lives by stabilising injured people during those crucial moment before the arrival of the emergency services.
Languedoc-Roussillon By Hortense Hargreaves From “Le Ciel est Bleu and other poems” February Hills. Through the snow mimosa stretches. Branch upon branch of glistening yellow Reaches towards ‘Canigou’, mountain of church-like splendour. So many…