To find the best quality saffron you do not need to travel far. In the hills above Calmeilles, at the feet of Canigou, Laurent Dieval and his wife Hilde have been growing this intriguing flower since 2011.

Buy a calendar to help sick kids

Flodama, a local video production company, has teamed up with Joa Joie, an association to help hospitalised children, to produce a calendar to raise funds for the cause.

with MM Brady From assemblies of legislatures that convene under them to zoological collections housed by them, domes signal unusual venues round the world. France has many, including Le Dôme restaurant, an Art Déco masterpiece…

The group ‘Oui au pays catalan’ ask you to help to keep the region’s Catalan identity by writing to your local mairie and asking for them to put up a ‘Pays Catalan’ sign next to the entrance of your town or village – if it doesn’t have one already.