ENGLISH AUTHOR RICHARD ‘DICK’ HANDSCOMBE
Dick Handscombe has had 23 books published over the past forty years, 16 of them since retiring to the mountain village of Barx, near Gandia, in 1994, where he has…
The Truth about FIB
The Festival Internacional de Benicàssim is one of the highlights of the Spanish, indeed the European, perhaps even the World’s rock music festival scene and, miraculously it takes place right…
English Beauty for Sale
BOOK REVIEW: ‘ENGLISH BEAUTY’ by BOB YAREHAM It is not often that a book comes along that not only changes your life but which also makes you laugh. This isn’t…
VI, Hemingway and Mediterraneo TV
Valencia International’s new Hemingway and Welles route has stimulated interest from the Valencian media, and a TV crew followed the route with us in order to broadcast a report about…
Shadows in the Distance (2013)
Orlando Bosch, a Valencian director from Buñol, Valencia, living in Berlin, directs a film about an Italian radio personality who meets a German bookshop employee, with scenes in Berlin, Poland,…
Hemingway and Valencia
A journalist from Valencia’s biggest selling Spanish newspaper, EMV Levante followed the merry band of brothers (and sisters) who inaugurated Valencia International’s Hemingway and Welles route. An extensive article was…
Happy Cinejove to Valencia
Valencia’s international film festival Cinejove is 30 years old this year, and once more it is opening its doors to Valencia, to the world, and especially to young, aspiring film…
Victor Manuel Blazquez: Killing the Thing you Love
I once drove past a herd of bulls in Cuenca and rolled up the window, that being the only extra protection available at the time. The idea then of standing…
Spanish people are NOT stupid…but their “democratic” system sure is.
A Canadian resident in Valencia examines the Spanish political system. Spanish elections have just come and gone. It is the largest farce of a democracy you can imagine and the absolutely…
Valencia and George Clooney
The Walt Disney film, starring George Clooney, called ‘Tomorrowland’, which was filmed partly in Valencia in January 2014, received its Spanish premiere in Valencia on May 19th 2015 at the…
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