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HEAT PUMP FOR POOLS: Extend your swimming season

Kate 30/04/2025 0 Comments

Extend your swimming season with a wide range of accessories from well known manufacturers. Contact us for more details and a free quote.

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Beware the ‘Saints de Glace’

Kate 30/04/2025 1 Comment

Just when we think that summer is on its way!

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Cold calling cauchemar controlled

Laura McLellan 19/04/2025 0 Comments

Phone & internet providers, insurance companies, professional training organisations… the offers are varied, numerous and mostly a pain in the derrière. But new measures are now in place to limit cold calling.

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Baby you can drive my car… from UK to P-O

Laura McLellan 16/04/2025 8 Comments

Baby you can drive my car… Wondering what’s changed since the last time you drove over? You can always depend on P-O Life readers to point you in the right direction.

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Out for the Day in Leucate

Laura McLellan 14/04/2025 0 Comments

Walk the region with Tim and Chris Parker, heading out for the day in Leucate. This 4 hour / 12km route takes in plateau, cliffs and coastline!

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Feeling a bit tramontane?

Kate 21/03/2025 0 Comments

Do you know the meaning of the adjective ‘tramontane’?

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Things to do on a rainy day

Laura McLellan 18/03/2025 2 Comments

Ideas of things to see and do when the weather takes a turn for the worse

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Text message scam: fake messages regarding Colissimo deliveries

Kate 15/03/2025 3 Comments

A reader has contacted us to warn us of a text message scam which she fell foul of last week. If you receive a text asking you to pay extra postage on a parcel awaiting delivery, it may well be a hoax.

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The Palais des Rois de Majorque

Kate 14/03/2025 0 Comments

The Palais des Rois de Majorque is a must-see for the fine view from the impressive red brick ramparts across the city roofs to Canigou, to Queribus and the plain in between.

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Free-flow tolls… don’t get stung!

Laura McLellan 08/03/2025 3 Comments

In a bid to reduce traffic jams, save fuel and emit less carbon dioxide, the Ministère de la Transition écologique has announced that free-flow tolls will slowly become the norm on France’s autoroute system.

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