A (Pre-historic) Taste for Honey
Sweet Home Valencia Spring has arrived in Valencia and the air is once more impregnated with the dizzingly sweet scent of orange blossom. Inevitably at this time, a young man’s…
Hotel is Home: Mindfulness Retreat
They say that a hotel is not a home, although Matt and Dany are hoping to prove ‘them’ wrong. And it seems to be working, as their unique, welcoming Bed…
Yuste in Time
The slogan of Yuste Artesania is “an infinity of curiosities”; and once you walk inside from the square (Plaza Milagro Mocaoret 5, just off Plaza de la Reina), you will…
Newton’s Great Invention in the Carmen District
One of Valencia’s most charismatic districts is the Barrio del Carmen, the original historic city centre where you can find architectural remnants from several epochs and interesting anecdotal people and…
Angels Don’t Need Wings: Pascal Kleiman
One of the winners of Spain’s 2009 Goya awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars, was a film about the French-born, Valencia-based DJ Pascal Kleiman by director Ángel Loza, who…
Sexy Valencian Architecture
Although it appears to be a church at first sight, or a monastery at least, Valencia’s La Lonja is in fact a civic building, and one of the most curious…
Josep Tornero: Henry Ford PrizeWinner
As more and more of Valencia’s talented scientists look abroad for work, it is important to remember that Valencian achievements are not limited to citrus fruits and sunshine. The Ford…
Your Turn in a Yurta
As most of the film version of Doctor Zhivago was made in Spain, it seems reasonable that the traditional houses used by the steppe wandering Mongols, known as the Yurta,…
Let’s Go With Lego in La Palma
More than 550 regional tournaments since 1998 in 55 countries, involving over 16,000 teams and 30,000 volunteers, and among them a team from Colegio Palma called Palma Friend’s (we hope…
Valencia Blinds Leading the Californian Blinds
Venetian blinds, of the kind that you could see in the posters of the films The Graduate or American Gigolo, are composed of a series of slats, one above the…
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