A Cool Way to Sell Shoes
“Walking through a little Mediterranean place seeing its painted shutters over white stone walls, where the sun tries to enter and fill with its light a cosy and natural atmosphere.…
Cavanilles
If you move in botanic circles, then you are probably either a sunflower or likely to have come acrosss the name Cavanilles at least a dozen times per pollination. Antonio…
El Cierzo
A Great Place to be Invited to Lunch As a great believer in Darwin’s concept of the ‘survival of the fittest’, I have always taken the view that it is…
La Estrella
The Source of Contentment Restaurants come and go, but some just seem to linger on despite changes in the economy or fashion. La Estrella (The Star) is one of them,…
Valencia’s Pink Panthers
Ask any Valencian about ‘the pink panther’ and you will be directed to a statue of dubious taste in the middle of the roundabout where Avenida de Ausiàs March meets…
A great big smile
A great big smile conveys sincerity and security in oneself and helps us be more successful. Nowadays there is scientific evidence that people who smile are more successful both…
The Westin: “George Clooney (was) Inside!”
I have been in George Clooney’s hotel room, the one where he stayed while filming ‘Tomorrowland’ in Valencia, and I even dipped my foot into the Jacuzzi where he languished,…
Caro Hotel: over 2,000 years of history
When you enter the Marque de Caro Hotel, it’s not unusual, as Tom Jones said, to take a step back, wondering if you’ve accidentally wandered into a museum. As soon…
International Conference of High Energy Physics in Valencia. ICHEP 2014
The shops and restaurants surrounding the Palacio de Congressos in Valencia were swamped by droves of physicists when lunch broke on the first day of the International Conference of High…
Bambalina’s Puppet Magic in Asia
The Valencian Puppet Company Bambalina has been thrilling children and adults alike since 1981; and now, the children and adults of China and Korea (the south, not the north, where…
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