St.George’s Church Vernet-Les-Bains In 2008 we handed St.George’s church building over to the commune of Vernet-les-Bains with the agreement that they would refurbish it making it fit to use as a cultural…
SUNDAY 7TH APRIL The sun is up, the sky is blue…… there’s a tingle in the air that says that our Mediterranean spring is just around the corner, still a little unsure of itself but…
PLEASE JOIN US…… YOUR OPINION IS IMPORTANT Because P-O Life ‘head office’ (ie MOI) is based in the Vallespir, the magazine tends to be rather bias and does not dedicate enough time or…
Michael Phillips: Blake Illuminated By Ellen Turner Hall Romantic visions of William Blake Banyuls is home away from home to Michael Phillips, a world expert on the late 18th and early 19th century poet,…
Spring 2013 AIRPORT NEWS WITH JOHN FAIRCLOUGH It’s that time of year again when the Airlines publish their schedules for April to October. In recent years, particularly to seasonal…
Cork, stone and canvas By Ellen Turner Hall Exhibition 2013: Musée d’Art Moderne of Collioure. Such are the raw materials of the spring exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne of Collioure.…
The Paysandisia Archon UPDATE March 2013 Han Van de Waterbeemd reports….. Earlier this week we had the visit at home from Benjamin Granel of a company based in Narbonne (see www.viagreen.fr). This is currently…
By Ellen Turner Hall “Le Temps Retrouvé” identifies not only the domain, but also the philosophy of Michael Georget, winemaker at Laroque des Alberes. Nothing is lost. Vines, flowers, insects and soil form a single…
In spite of having a bad national press in recent years, Perpignan has also something to shout about to the rooftops: in 1988, it created and has since nurtured the world-famous festival Visa pour l’Image.…
My Self-Publishing Experience By V S Rose, P-O-based author of Night of the Fête www.vsrose.co.uk Introduction Finding a publisher or agent as a new author is very difficult. No, I’ll rephrase that, absolutely impossible. I…