Not All Black Olives Are Black! We’ve all plucked an olive off a tree, popped it into our mouths and quickly popped it back out again – haven’t we?
On a clear winter’s day, a drive along the coastal lagoons of Salses and Canet can offer vast skies, wide horizons, bird spotting, oyster eating and windsurfer watching.
Welcome to the Route des Vins! In particular that of the Cote de Roussillon Villages. Throw in a Roman Aquaduct and you have a pretty good Autumn Day Out.
It is 1793.The Spanish Royalist Army holds the Tech valley, Collioure, and Port-Vendres on the coast.
A “Lest we Forget” drive around the Pyrenees Orientales can be the moment to visit or revisit some of the villages and enjoy the autumn colours whilst taking in some of the fascinating War and anti war Memorials.
Despite lower temperatures, rain, and storms, firemen are still called out several times to deal with winter fires, mainly caused by ‘écobuages’ gone wrong.
This is a circular walk from the hamlet of La Pava, offering wonderful views from the Chateau d’Ultrera. Total distance 6.5 km with approximately 445 m of ascent. The ascent is in woodland, offering welcome shade. However, the descent is more open to the sun. Allow 4hrs for the full route.
The Morhange network was a French resistance network led by Marcel Taillandier, who took extreme risks to inform and protect the Resistance Movement.
The former ‘Maison Mazard’ in Le Soler, now destroyed, was a safe house for Dutch refugees, Jews and resistance members fleeing the nazis in the 1930s.
Art lovers are spoilt for choice in our beautiful region so which exhibions to visit? P-O writer, Ellen Turner Hall’s passion for art leads her all over the P-O, visiting exhibitions featuring some incredible artists, both living and long-departed, some famous, others waiting in the wings.