Valencia Rocks
FIB, Low, Marenostrum, Arenal Sound, Rototom Sunsplash, Festival de Les Arts; the number of music festivals held in the Valencia Community keeps growing to satisfy the insatiable appetite for music,…
Aitana’s Star Product
Loles and Javier’s daughter Aitana has been the inspiration of a project designed to help other parents who, like them, have had to face adversity. Aitana was born deaf, and…
Amazing Tokyo: Amazing Station
Somebody falling asleep on a train to Valencia and then walking round the station in search of refreshment, could be forgiven for thinking that they’d caught the wrong train and…
Freshhy: Life in Your Living Room
Although he was brought up in Alcira, and attended the Rey Don Jaime secondary school there, one of Joan Bosch’s most memorable memories is of his grandfather’s fields around Alginet,…
El Palleter
Sorrolla painted him, his statue stands beside Valencia’s cannonball pocketed Torres de Quart, a monument to the city’s resistance to Napoleon’s artillery, commanded by Marshal Suchet, and Valencian venerates him…
Textil Energy: Here Comes the Sun
Whenever I lie in the shade of a big oak tree refreshing myself with a glass (or a bottle) of red red wine, I like to know that my phone…
CIFICOM in Valencia; it’s Logical Captain
Trekkies, train-spotters, bird-watchers and sundry nerds had their days on the 10th and 11th of October 2015, when CIFICOM came to Valencia. La Rambleta played host this year to collectors…
Collapsing and Expanding: Navlandis’ Big Bang
Navlandis is a young Valencian company that has evolved from the Valencia Polytechnic University’s Ideas programme to become a company ready to resolve a lot of the world’s logistics and…
The Birds and the Bees and the Sexy Plant
Recently a man was arrested in England for sexually assaulting a horse; so when I heard about ‘sexy plant’, I must confess that I started to worry. However, Sexy Plant…
Fun in a Case, Kids in a Box
All parents know that whatever high-tech, state of the art, cutting edge gift you buy for your children, in the end their natural creativity will assert itself, and they will…
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