Valencia, World Running Capital
For those of us who long ago gave up running for buses and trains on medical advice, it is perhaps a Little strange to…
Cruyff in Valencia
Johan Cruyff is remembered mainly as a player for Ajax and Holland, and as a player and manager of Barcelona Football Club. However, he…
Ma Khin of Restaurant
Ma Khin is my kind of restaurant, to paraphrase Ol Blue Eyes; and as its founder, British/Burmese chef Stephen Anderson claims, it is ‘going…
Running for Nepal….in the Calderona
As Valencia is fast becoming ‘the’ running city, the surrounding countryside is also staking its claim to healthy living. On 6th March 2016 the…
Neville Electrifies Valencia
Unfortunately we are not talking about football manager Gary Neville, but about the Julius G Neville company, whose products, manufactured in Liverpool, were used…
Fallas is Dead; Long Live Fallas!
The last of the gunpowder has exploded; although there always seems to be at least one kid in every neighbourhood who has some lethal…
7 Julio: A Barrel of Laughs
The restaurant isn’t in the nicest of locations, in an industrial estate on the southbound road leaving Valencia; but once inside, angels soar to…
El Convent: An Aria and a Prayer
There are not many places where you can climb down a mountain, enter a cloister and then find yourself in an excellent restaurant, surrounded…
Valencia’s Iron(Wo)Man
Maria José Martínez Maroto is not an ordinary woman, nor an ordinary athlete; she was the only woman representing Spain in the Half Ironman…
Ciao Valencia: Vicios Italianos
They say you shouldn’t mix business with pleasure, and yet five international friends have found both in Valencia, via London and Orlando. Vicios Italianos…