A ‘Proof of Accommodation’ document that your UK visitors could be asked to produce when entering France.
The ‘grégoires’ tradition is a weird and fascinating read!
On the Icehouse trail is an excerpt from Colin Duncan Taylor’s latest book, Menu from the Midi: A Gastronomic Journey through the South of France
Saint Valentine worried that soldiers would abuse their Christianity by indulging in the sin of extra marital nooky
Who were the Trabucayres?
House of the Rising Sun or Le Pénitencier, sung here in French by Johnny Hallyday
The ‘Truce of God’ (Treuga Dei) signed in Toulouges banned fighting on Sundays and major holy days!
Traditional Chinese Medicinal practitioners have long revered the bark, leaves and flowers and the tree was used by the ancient Mayans for trauma injuries and burns.
Test Your French with a really bad joke.
Did you know that the man who was apparently responsible for the unification of Catalonia was called Wilfred the Hairy (El Pelut), Count of Barcelona, but hailing originally from Ria near Prades?