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Chateau Fort Liberia & the ‘Affaire des Poisons’

Kate 15/01/2024 0 Comments

Several infamous lady poisoners were chained up in the ’prison des dames’ of the chateau Fort Liberia.

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Which Way Is Banyuls -sur-Mer? Le Perthus to Banyuls

Kate 14/01/2024 1 Comment

Walking the GR10 Trail in the French Pyrenees with Patrick O’Connell  

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Olive Festival Espolla + Bean Festival Santa Pau

Kate 09/01/2024 0 Comments

Jane Mann describes her visit  to the olive and bean festivals in southern Catalonia…..

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Filmed in the P-O: Rivière Perdue. January 11th

Kate 05/01/2024 0 Comments

Adapted by TF1 from a Spanish series ‘Monteperdido’, all 6 of the 52 minute episodes of ‘Rivière Perdue’ are filmed in the Vallespir between Arles-sur-Tech, Amélie-les-Bains, Céret, Prats-de-Mollo, and Le Boulou.

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Cross-border public transport for just 1€? Molt bé !

Laura McLellan 22/12/2023 2 Comments

Great news, travel junkies! The powers that be have given the go-ahead for cross-border transport, and at just 1€ per journey you can border hop as often as you like this summer.

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Win a year’s unlimited travel with the SNCF! Too good to be true?

Kate 19/12/2023 0 Comments

Scams. A general rule of thumb: if it looks too good to be true, it probably is! 

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Walk the region….in the tracks of the highwaymen

Kate 17/12/2023 0 Comments

WALK THE REGION……. with Christian Piquemal ON THE TRACKS OF THE HIGHWAYMEN.. Cross the border like the bandits used to do only 160 years ago. Discover vestiges of a medieval fortress and an enchanting hermitage.…

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Did you know…?

Laura McLellan 16/12/2023 0 Comments

A whole host of interesting facts about the region and further afield for your reading pleasure. So, did you know…?

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WORD ORIGINS: Boudoir

Kate 15/12/2023 0 Comments

Did you know how the word ‘boudoir originated?

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First cinema performance in the P-O

Kate 15/12/2023 0 Comments

Did you know that the first cinema performance in the Pyrénées-Orientales was the screening of the Folies Bergères in the narrow streets of the promenade des platanes in Perpignan, in 1896? I

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