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Valencia Hosts Utrecht University Invasion

Valencia Hosts Utrecht University Invasion

It all started with an e mail: “Dear Sir, My name is Marlous van Oostrum, I am a Communication student at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. With my student association, SV…

IES Malilla Visits L’Iber Museum again.

IES Malilla Visits L’Iber Museum again.

Some schools are a little bit special, and the IES Malilla school is certainly one of them. The teachers there are keen to expose their students to real English, and…

The World is Getting the Point

The World is Getting the Point

Point is a curiously named Valencian furniture company that is achieving success abroad, as shown by recent contracts in Dubai and Mexico worth 1.6 million euros. Based in Gata de…

Attack of the Valencian Drones

Attack of the Valencian Drones

Two companies from the Valencian Community are currently filling the skies with drones which, despite their fame for being used by the American armed forces for blowing people up, also…

Selling Sun in London

Selling Sun in London

Here comes the Valencian sun! Somebody finally seems to have found out how to bottle the sun, and now Valencian companies are exporting their sunlight to the UK. Well, to…

Lambrusqueria: Clooney’s Home from Home

Lambrusqueria: Clooney’s Home from Home

Toni Campagnol arrived in Valencia in 1996 looking for the sea; George Clooney was here in 2014, looking for Tomorrowland. They coincided in Toni’s restaurant, Lambrusqueria, where George felt at…

A Sea of Plastic

A Sea of Plastic

There is nothing sadder than to see a dolphin choking on a plastic bag, and yet with the massive production of these weapons of mass destruction and the frivolity with…

Royo Group Expands into Mexico and Costa Rica

Royo Group Expands into Mexico and Costa Rica

The Valencian bathroom fittings group Royo, with its headquarters in the Quart de Poblet district of Valencia, where El Cid defeated the Moors among the Mulberry trees in the 11th…

APAVAC Bookclub March 2015

APAVAC Bookclub March 2015

Hiya All! “The state of being apart”, “apart-hood” or what we know better by its more familiar Afrikaans name – Apartheid! Given the horror, revulsion and the unfairness that the…

All the Way from Villajoyosa

All the Way from Villajoyosa

Students from the IES Malladeta school in Villajoyosa became the first visitors from the province of Alicante to try out Hollywood and History. Accompanied by their teachers Yolanda and Esperanza…