A Slow Dream is a Good Dream
It’s good to have a dream, or even an Everly Brothers Dream, Dream Dream, and Tania Tarrega and Esther Segura clearly have one. Their dream has a name now; ‘Slow…
Bodeguita Lounge
The first thing that strikes you once inside Bodeguita Lounge is the huge photo of pigs feeding at a trough, which is one way to set the scene for supper…
Suites for my Sweet
Italians must be a romantic people, for they make up the largest number of foreigners who stay at this hotel which specialises in romantic weekends (with a husband or wife…
Cardona: a Hollywood Hotel: From 007 to 700
A mere 50 years after Orson Welles walked through the palatial splendour of Cardona castle to film his Shakespearian classic ‘Chimes at Midnight’, the world of the cinema returns to…
Morocco Valencia Monaco; Keep on Running
On 20th October 2015 Australian endurance adventurer Luke Tyburski embarked on his ‘Ultimate Triathlon’- a 2000km swim, cycle and run from Morocco to Monaco in 12 days. Valencia is on…
Calatrava Honoured
Valencian born architect Santiago Calatrava, has been awarded the 2015 European Architecture Prize. The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture…
Famosa Penetrates UK Market
The Alicante toy maker Famosa, the first large scale toy making company created in Spain following a merger among small artisan toy makers in 1957, has formed a strategic Alliance…
VI Interviews Will McCarthy (24/7)
When/Why did you come to Valencia? I came to Valencia in 1995 when I was in my mid-twenties. I remember telling my then English girlfriend that I was going to…
Anna Vives and Geox
Anna Vives, from Barcelona, was in Valencia in October 2015 presenting her new series of shoes for the Valencian branch of the Geox shoe chain. The Geox store in Calle…
This is the End, of Finnegan’s, my Friend. Or is it?
All is not lost; Finnegan’s has reopened, although in place and name only. It seems that a deal has been done to maintain the name, although Peter Finnegan will no…
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