Sendra Puts the Boot in Valencia
Why is it I can never find my knee-length python-skin boots when I really need them? Every time they play Nancy Sinatra’s “These boots were made for walking” I just…
Rafael Guastavino
The Valencian Architect and Constructor Who Built (Quite a Bit of) New York Rafael Guastavino is not terribly well known in his native Valencia. He is however much appreciated…
Valencia: Where the streets have a name.
Calle Jorge Juan Even the people who live in them often don’t know the origin of their street names. Calle Jorge Juan is a street with many shops, particularly those…
Valencian Biologist Fights Snake Bite Deaths
As far as I know nobody has ever died of a snake bite in Valencia, where the snakes, like the people, tend to be really relaxed and more likely to…
Beers and Travel: Paradise Found?
The lifespan of new shops is getting shorter; today if a shop wants to survive, it has to give the people what they want and go back to basics, but…
Miguel and the Magic House
Miguel Gil Lluch was born in Godella in 1964, although he then spent thirty years in Moncada, including a spell as a student at the Patronato (Colegio de San José)…
Valencian Scientists Turn on the Tap Water
‘Aquapot’ is the name of a project that is the brainchild of Valencia Polytechnic Professor José Miguel Arnal; a project whose purpose is to provide safe drinking water for people…
American Stories in Valencia
Where’s Freddy? We live in a global village, but some people are more global than others; meet Ree Gillett. Freddy the Frog is a character from a children’s book written…
SURFING THE USA WITH CORO CORCHEAS
Merecedes Villegas, a retired English teacher at IES Campanar accompanied a Valencia choir (Coro Corcheas) to the USA in the summer of 2013. Like quavers on sheet music, a group…
‘The Way’ to Get more Tourists
While the tourist authorities scratch their heads and wonder how to increase the number of tourists, one not very good film is achieving just that. According to Koldo Lasarte of…
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