Suzanne Dunaway LOVES to cook. Some might say she LIVES to cook. Having cooked, written and painted around the world, here she shares her PO-inspired recipes in this weekly blog.
A one and a half hour circuit in the footsteps of the French and Spanish soldiers who fought in the bloody battle of Le Boulou, it is a historical eye opener. Stunning views over the Albères, Roussillon plain as far as the Med and across to Mount Canigo, are a stark contrast to the bloody tableau of wounded and dying, which once stained this peaceful landscape.
The chayote is also called a christophine in French, after its discovery in the Americas by Christopher Columbus in the late 15th century. Here’s a great recipe from a P-O Life reader.
When Jerusalem was captured by the Caliph Omar in 638, Christian pilgrims lost their enthusiasm for the long trek to the Holy City.
A selection of poems paying homage to our sacred Mountain, Mount Canigou
We’re driving along the D115 through Ceret (no stopping there today) Amélie and Arles-sur-Tech right up into the Haut Vallespir and over into Spain.
Have a go at our latest quiz to find out just how much you know about the Pyrénées-Orientales.
I stepped off the train at Gare de Perpignan with the kind of anticipation that sneaks up slow and low, like the first sip of coffee in the morning. This place isn’t just a station.…
The Pyrénées-Orientales offers dozens of ’criques’ along its rocky coast, small beaches and rocky inlets, usually relatively sheltered from the winds.
If you breakdown on the motorway, don’t contact your insurance breakdown service as only motorway approved breakdown vehicles are allowed on the motorways.