Vic’s Big Walk70-year Old Walks Into His Own History Book BUY THE BOOK As his 70th birthday loomed, Vic Heaney wanted to do something special to mark the occasion. Unlike the rest of us,…
Monday 20th November Wet, wet, wet! To say it’s raining would be a bit of an understatement. Whamming, pelting and wazzing it down seems to describe it quite well. Flooding, flowing, gushing, rushing, spilling, spouting,…
My name is Cindy Guilbert. I was born in Guernsey in the Channel Island. My husband Marcel and I moved to France in 2001, to the beautiful Catalan village of St Laurent de Cerdans in…
Europe’s largest solar power plant in the heart of Perpignan Saint-Charles International in Perpignan, the first European distributor of fruit and vegetables, is now a major producer of green energy. Europe’s largest…
By Ellen Hall Mas Boutet is a place apart, a reminder of a less frenetic epoch when you planted trees and watched them grow. Even the entrance takes on the meaning of “to entrance”. The…
Domaine Lauriga From her infancy in Algeria, Jacqueline Clar’s passion was horticulture. Her much loved Grandfather, a natural gardener and florist, had had a rose named after him, specialised in artichokes and citrus fruits and…
I met Jenny Rhodes for the first time in 2008, in their deliciously cosy cottage in the heart of Les Angles, just a five minute walk from the ski slopes. Rosy, fun and delightfully…
17 November – Crêperie Saveurs du Temps, Thuir. “Jelly” comes to Thuir! « Jelly! » is a casual coworking event, for freelancers, home workers and people running small businesses to meet and work…
Sunday October 2nd It’s a blazing hot summer day outside, more like June or July, so I’ll be brief, a few quick words before I thrust myself back onto the Dad-entertainment circuit and head off…
Excited as I am about my trip, I am not so excited about the nine hour non-stop flight from London to Chennai. Having become a bit of an old hand at these long haul flights I have developed my own personal style of survival which help me to arrive feeling fresh and invigorated rather than groggy and tired.