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Hawkers: Elche to LA (and Netflix)

Hawkers: Elche to LA (and Netflix)

The Valencian sunglasses manufacturer, Hawkers, has reached an agreement with Netflix to provide the ‘shades’ for a new Tv series, Jaguar’, a story of Nazi-hunters, who are clearly very cool.…

O Stuff

O Stuff

Their slogan is ‘walk as you think’ which in my case could lead to some pretty hazardous zigzagging, but, nevertheless, the people at O-Stuff, shoemakers from the hub at Elda,…

LIBERTAS 7 is 75 years old.

LIBERTAS 7 is 75 years old.

To celebrate it they have organised an exhibition https://libertas7.es/75-aniversario-exposicion/and a series of events.https://libertas7.es/75-aniversario/ The exhibition, which can be visited at Caballeros 22 in Valencia (Saturdays from 11am to 2pm and…

Chocolate Heaven in Valencia

Chocolate Heaven in Valencia

Ask any Argentinian what their favourite chocolate is and, apparently, they will reply: Franuí! Following ten successful years in Latin America, the company that manufactures them, Rapanui, has decided to…

Lecoc: Valencian Architects Win IF Award

Lecoc: Valencian Architects Win IF Award

The Valencian architecture firm Lecoc Arquitectura has won the IF Design Award thanks to its project to build an oncological hospital in Oran, Algeria. The Oncopole L’Espoir hospital was one…

Mark O’Neill’s Message in a bottle….of wine

Mark O’Neill’s Message in a bottle….of wine

 I don’t know if people become more philosophical with wine or if philosophy leads people to wine, but either way, wine and philosophy are inseparable in Mark O’Neill’s world. Philosophy…

William Shakesbeer: Valencia’s Newest Online English Books and Craft Beer Shop

William Shakesbeer: Valencia’s Newest Online English Books and Craft Beer Shop

William Shakesbeer, Valencia’s newest, secondhand English bookstore, offers customers a wide variety of used English books and craft beer from around the world. Fiction and non-fiction books for adults, teens,…

IKEA Spreads

IKEA Spreads

There has been an IKEA store in Valencia since June 2014. Most locals now know where it is and driving instructors like to use the compex approaches to hone their…

Quality Innovation Award for Skroller

Quality Innovation Award for Skroller

The Quality Innovation Award is an annual, international competition that enables innovators to get professional assessment for their innovation, benchmark their innovation against others and increase the visibility of their…

Istobal; Cleaning up the World

Istobal; Cleaning up the World

When Ismael Tomás Alacreu founded ISTOBAL in the spring of 1950 he probably never imagined that he would be starting a major, successful international company. From its humble beginnings, and…