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What To Do if you’re Pickpocketed

Posted by Katy on Oct 31, 2012 in Features, Practical Information, Starry-Eyed Guides | 4 comments

My, who could that be with the shiny camera, the smartphone searching for a current location, and the wallet full of money in several currencies?

Even if you think you are a ‘traveller not a tourist’, chances are, you stick out like a sore thumb and your pockets, I’m afraid to say, are ripe for the picking.

A guide to the Pyrénées-Orientales

Posted by Katy on Jan 5, 2012 in Features, Practical Information, Starry-Eyed Guides | 2 comments

Forget the tricolore, France’s southernmost département flies the striped red-and-yellow flag of Catalonia, a sign of its separate culture and turbulent history. The area was wrested back and forth between France and Spain in a centuries’-long tussle and though nowadays it has become fairly frenchified, the old language, Occitan – and even modern-day Catalan – still influences the strange, nasal ajbjfkkFDGDGDGjfkDJBSKFJKDJ French you hear in these parts.