EMV Levante and 2,000 Years on the Valencia Underground
This activity recently attracted the interest of Valencia’s main newspaper EMV Levante: http://www.levante-emv.com/valencia/2014/09/25/des-metro-mil-anys-dhistoria/1166345.html The Irish rock group U2 wrote a famous song ‘Where the Streets Have no Name’. In Valencia,…
Fluttering in Las Horas
Walking into Las Horas is a bit like walking onto the set of ‘Cabaret’; decadence, glamour and cherubim and seraphim beating their wings like crazy everywhere. I exaggerate of course,…
Bali: The Eagle Has Landed
Its size is just over 1,900,000 square kilometres, occupying 3 different time zones, and its population, the 4th largest in the world, is almost 180,000,000. It has about 17,000 islands…
Feel me, Touch me, See me
Peter White is the Disability Affairs Correspondent for the BBC’s programme ‘Blind Man Roams the Globe’, broadcast on the World Service. In a recent interview with The Independent newspaper he…
Paella Goes West
Bruce ‘the Boss’ Springsteen and the Soprano family put aside their axes and pocket their envelopes on Saturday 25th of October 2014, which was declared Paella Day; the day of…
A Miracle (or 2) for Christmas
Vicente Gandia is one of my favourite Valencian wine makers, and I don’t say that just because Javier Gandia once bought me lunch, although it didn’t do any harm. They…
IES Serpis Goes Underground
Valencia International returned to IES Serpis to share 2,000 years of Valencian history on the underground, an activity for schools using a simple underground map to review Valencian history from…
Bridges (and Deserts) for Music
Bridges (and Deserts) for Music Most of us, from time to time, are willing to cross the street to make a donation to an NGO; Isra García however, went a…
IES Serpis Catches Fire!
Rosa Real is the first teacher to try out Valencia International’s ‘Fire! Fire! What do I do?’ activity. Rosa teaches Physical Education in English at the IES Serpis secondary school,…
Benidorm: Poets’ Paradise
Although no longer noted for the density of its poet population, there was a time when Benidorm was considered an ideal destination to compose an ode or two; so much…
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