Scams. A general rule of thumb: if it looks too good to be true, it probably is!
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.…
A whole host of interesting facts about the region and further afield for your reading pleasure. So, did you know…?
Did you know how the word ‘boudoir originated?
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
This French Christmas character, the ‘whipping father’, said to accompany Santa on his rounds on 6th December, is fortunately no longer heard of much in French tradition.
Franco believed Sardane dancers were passing on coded messages with their feet!
Trees used to be festively decorated with red apples until a drought in 1858 destroyed the apple harvest.
Lord Guillaume de Cabestany was a troubadour, soldier, poet, and lover of Saurimonde, wife of Raimond de Castell-Rossello and subject of many of his poems
The ‘Père Noel du Secours Populaire’ doesn’t hand out presents, he collects them.