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Amazing Tokyo: Amazing Station

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

Cycling for UNICEF in Valencia

Cycling for UNICEF in Valencia

September 20th 2015 is another bike fest in Valencia as the city celebrates its Bicycle Day. The cyclists set off from the tree lined Alameda Avenue and covered most of…

Valencia’s soup kitchen Casa Caridad in The New York Times?

Valencia’s soup kitchen Casa Caridad in The New York Times?

On 21st April 2009 The New York Times published an article about Valencia’s situation. Crisis, deflation, financial default, unemployment, wage cuts…: Alarm bells are going off! The article explained that…