Even if there’s nothing coming, you must still be seen to stop for 3 seconds at stop signs in France.
If this happens to you, remain in your car with doors locked and DRIVE OFF WITHOUT REMOVING PAPER
House of the Rising Sun or Le Pénitencier, sung here in French by Johnny Hallyday
Use the electronic toll payment badge on all motorways in France, Spain, Portugal and Italy.
It can come as quite a surprise just how much water is lost from a swimming pool via evaporation, due to heat, humidity and wind.
A whole host of interesting facts about the region and further afield for your reading pleasure. So, did you know…?
Hands up if the vocabulary and acronyms associated with the French Education System leave you standing outside the classroom door!
Crit’Air Criteria – in order to reduce urban pollution, petrol cars, vans and motorhomes first-registered before 1997 and diesels prior to 2001 are banned in certain areas of several major towns, with more to follow.
An update of local news in the Pyrenees-Orientales
British residents in France must now have a carte de séjour but this is not a substitute for a passport.