Beers and Travel: Paradise Found?
The lifespan of new shops is getting shorter; today if a shop wants to survive, it has to give the people what they want and go back to basics, but…
Miguel and the Magic House
Miguel Gil Lluch was born in Godella in 1964, although he then spent thirty years in Moncada, including a spell as a student at the Patronato (Colegio de San José)…
Valencian Scientists Turn on the Tap Water
‘Aquapot’ is the name of a project that is the brainchild of Valencia Polytechnic Professor José Miguel Arnal; a project whose purpose is to provide safe drinking water for people…
American Stories in Valencia
Where’s Freddy? We live in a global village, but some people are more global than others; meet Ree Gillett. Freddy the Frog is a character from a children’s book written…
SURFING THE USA WITH CORO CORCHEAS
Merecedes Villegas, a retired English teacher at IES Campanar accompanied a Valencia choir (Coro Corcheas) to the USA in the summer of 2013. Like quavers on sheet music, a group…
‘The Way’ to Get more Tourists
While the tourist authorities scratch their heads and wonder how to increase the number of tourists, one not very good film is achieving just that. According to Koldo Lasarte of…
Folk-Jazz-Arabe on Film
Valencian British-Portuguese-Morrocan Soundtrack for Valencian Azerbaijan Documentary A Valencian-based British-Portuguese-Morrocan group has provided the soundtrack for a Valencian documentary about Spanish pilots in Azerbaijan during World War II. Actually…
Jorge de Sancho: a breath of fresh hair in Valencia.
In this busy age, multi tasking is the key to survival, and if you don’t have time to practise your English and get a haircut; then Jorge de Sancho may…
The Marqués de Cáceres: Wine and Grandeur
We are so used to seeing the emblematic name, Marqués de Cáceres, on a bottle of wine that it is easy to forget that it is a real person, and…
Jarit Brings Africa to Valencia
It’s always nice to learn something new and recently I learnt how to say ‘friendship’ in the Wolof language of Senegal. The word is ‘jarit’ and Jarit is a Valencian…
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