VAT (TVA) at 10% instead of 20% Don’t miss out on it! Reduced rate VAT for your renovation projects. Did you know that most renovation and building works and materials for renovation are subject to VAT (TVA)…
VILLAGE FESTIVALS with Norman Longworth (Taken from the one-day-to-be-published ‘Conflent Tales’) Here in the Conflent we know a thing or two about celebrating. We seem to do little else. May is the month…
AND HERE IS THE NEWS…. a weekly update of the local news WITH CAROLINE HILL Death of Christian Bourquin – The funeral of the president of the Languedoc-Region took place in Millas on…
MOUNTAIN MAMA IN LES ANGLES Summer storms have never been my favorite kind of weather but this year they seem to have outdone themselves with some quite magnificent lightning and thunder that almost…
5, 6 & 7 September 2014 Patrick O’Brian Homage By Ellen Turner Hall* The Book Festival at Collioure, 5, 6 & 7 September 2014, has adopted a new name “D’une mer à…
Restaurant Review Rebellion Restaurant review sites such as TripAdvisor are being criticised by french chefs and restaurant owners as being damaging, unfair, and often written with no real knowledge of the restaurant…
Saturday 2nd August And bam! It’s August! How did that happen then eh? Feel like I want to keep pedaling backwards to try and slow life down a little – but of course, I can’t and…
I am now an artist, living in Ceret and Bristol, but have a chequered past. I studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge originally, and wondered why it was that apes evolved into humans. I found…
Art in Saint Cyprien Village As avid historians and Dan Browne fans know, the Knights Templar had an enormous influence in the Languedoc Roussillon from the 12th Century until their fall from…
Horizons: Beyond walls and bridges By Ellen Turner Hall Just across the border in Colera, “Horizon” takes on new meaning: a gallery dedicated to contemporary art founded 20 years ago by Ralph Bernabei…