Hands up if the vocabulary and acronyms associated with the French Education System leave you standing outside the classroom door!
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.
Our nearby Mediterranean shores have seen their fair share of piratical antics, starting as long ago as 75 BC with arguably the most audacious maritime kidnap of all times.
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.
The difference between ‘fanfares’ and ‘bandas’.
It’s a balmy evening. The barbecue is lit, wine poured. Glass in one hand, fly swat in the other, you’re coated in Deet, surrounded by citronella candles; eyes peeled and ears pricked for attackers. The garden’s bad enough, but what about tomorrrow’s walk in the country? How to tell friend from foe, underfoot and in the air?
Towards the end of August 1944, resistance fighters from all around the region fought Germans and French militia to take back Perpignan.
Claude Francois was an Egyptian-born French pop singer, songwriter and dancer, who wrote and composed “Comme d’habitude”, the original version of “My Way”.
The commune of Eus also encompasses another village, that of Comes. It’s an hour-long trek up the mountainside to the ruins of this abandoned village, 2 hours for the more physically challenged.
Did you know that most of us probably haven’t been eating ‘real’ pukka paella on our Spanish sorties?