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Glasses you wood love to wear

Glasses you wood love to wear

Woody Allen doesn’t wear wooden glasses, but he would probably like them, being a believer in the ‘small is beautiful’ philosophy. Móler wooden glasses are Made in Valencia; the frames…

FEDE and Deere: David and Goliath

FEDE and Deere: David and Goliath

Quality counts, and if you aim for excellence, you don’t have to be lying in the gutter to see the stars, you can be signing contracts with a major multinational…

Shipeer: Putting in the Boot

Shipeer: Putting in the Boot

Gangsters are going to love this new Valencian initiative. All that anxiety about transporting the corpse of your latest victim (“It’s nothing personal Vinnie, it’s just business,”) will now just…

Mouet: Shades of Ruzafa

Mouet: Shades of Ruzafa

One cool way to refer to sunglasses in English is to call them ‘shades,’ and as the neighbourhood of Ruzafa continues in its quest to be known as Valencia’s Notting…

Direct Mortgages SL: Life in Valencia

Direct Mortgages SL: Life in Valencia

The word ‘mortgage’, as anyone who knows any Latin languages can imagine, is connected with ‘death’. And although some people take one on like a condemned prisoner being fitted for…

Q’omer: a Valencian, Peruvian Project

Q’omer: a Valencian, Peruvian Project

Juan David Escobar and Alicia Carpio are two Valencians who worked in Peru for two years, where they had many contacts with the indigenous populations both in the Amazon and…

Ford’s e-Car Made in Valencia

Ford’s e-Car Made in Valencia

Ford has started production of the Mondeo Hybrid at its Almussafes plant near Valencia, and the future starts here. This model is the first hybrid car to be manufactured by…

Falomir: Games Without Frontiers

Falomir: Games Without Frontiers

The Valencian board game manufacturer Falomir, with headquarters in La Eliana, is searching for new horizons on the other side of the Atlantic, and hopes to sign agreements in Argentina…

Really Nice Things

Really Nice Things

In Valencia there are some really nice things, and then there is Really Nice Things, which is something else again. Really Nice Things could have been just another exmple of…

Bali: The Eagle Has Landed

Bali: The Eagle Has Landed

Its size is just over 1,900,000 square kilometres, occupying 3 different time zones, and its population, the 4th largest in the world, is almost 180,000,000. It has about 17,000 islands…