One of the first French words we learn in school is ‘bic’, for ballpoint pen.(Qu’est ce qu’il y a dans ta trousse?)
Did you know that Prat is the Catalan word for prairie or meadow?
Whether you’re for or against the hunt, its presence is inescapable in the P-O.
De Mailly entered military service as a musketeer, and in 1749 was appointed lieutenant general for the Roussillon and commander in chief of the province.
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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…?
Havaneres Named after the capital town of Cuba, La Habana (Havana), these sea shanties were brought back from Cuba by soldiers, sailors and expats in the 19th Century, originally to the coastal towns…
In 1860 Abbé Rous, the new Curé at the Chapelle de la Rectorie, first tasted the naturally sweet wine of Banyuls and found it so good that he decided, through his network of Catholic contacts, to make it the communion wine of France.
Did you know that most of us probably haven’t been eating ‘real’ pukka paella on our Spanish sorties?