This year, 2024, marks the 79th anniversary of VE Day, the formal acceptance of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender to the Allies.
The Spanish republican soldiers of the 9th company in General Leclerc’s 2nd Armoured Division fought Nazism on the side of the Allies
Just 14 months after their victory, Aimé Giral died alongside seven other members of the team at the outbreak of WW1.
Travel to and from the P-O has become more and more problematic over the past few years. Here readers share their experiences and advice.
Get your boules out – it’s time for pétanque!
Smart urinals’ in the ‘baños para hombres’ at Sants station
If your name is Fanny, just go…and enjoy!
We start at Lac de Bouillouses at hotel le Bones Hores (GPS 42.56012N 1.99653E) after a beautiful drive up the valley on the D60 from Mont Louis.
Enamoured of both the beauty and long and fascinating history of Port-Vendres, the Great Port Vendres Tapestry Association was started in July 2015 to create a large tapestry of the history of the town.
A simplification of the convoluted military history of the Cote Vermeille