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Languing: Welcome to the World

Languing: Welcome to the World

Spain loves our lovely –ing; they create all kinds of words with it, and would no doubt put it in their soup if they could find a way. With a…

ENGLISH AUTHOR RICHARD ‘DICK’ HANDSCOMBE

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…

EYES: Overtaking One Step Ahead

EYES: Overtaking One Step Ahead

One of the great things about Valencia is that you don’t need a car to move around the city. There are no great distances, public transport is efficient and there…

Valencia’s Serb Doctor Wins Canadian Grant

Valencia’s Serb Doctor Wins Canadian Grant

Valencian based Doctor Slaven Erceg who works at the Fundación Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF), where he is Head of Stem Cell Therapies in Neurodegenerative Diseases, has won a…

Valencian Fire over Baku

Valencian Fire over Baku

Valencia pyro-technician, not to be confused with pyromaniac, Ricardo Caballer Zamorano, was commissioned by the organizers of the Baku 2015 European Games to provide the fire, light and colour for…

The Truth about FIB

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…

Routes Around Valencia

Valencia International created routes by which both visitors and locals could get to know Valencian history. These routes were made available to tourist guides. Valencia International does not organise tours.…

English Beauty for Sale

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…

FACEPHI: Facing the Future

FACEPHI: Facing the Future

Whether or not the eyes are a reflection of the soul, I don’t know, but the face, eyes included, can open many portals, especially that of your bank account; so…

VI, Hemingway and Mediterraneo TV

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…