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We’ll Always Have Paris…….In Valencia

We’ll Always Have Paris…….In Valencia

Corinne Bally settled down in Valencia in 2001 after having visited the city several times as a representative of the European Union responsible for funds designed to help SMEs and…

Valencia’s Caped Crusaders

Valencia’s Caped Crusaders

They say that recognition is a pigeon sitting (or worse) on your head, in the sense that so many dignitaries are remembered by a statue or bust tucked away in…

ENGLISH AUTHOR RICHARD ‘DICK’ HANDSCOMBE

ENGLISH AUTHOR RICHARD ‘DICK’ HANDSCOMBE

Dick Handscombe has had 23 books published over the past forty years, 16 of them since retiring to the mountain village of Barx, near Gandia, in 1994, where he has…

The Truth about FIB

The Truth about FIB

The Festival Internacional de Benicàssim is one of the highlights of the Spanish, indeed the European, perhaps even the World’s rock music festival scene and, miraculously it takes place right…

English Beauty for Sale

English Beauty for Sale

BOOK REVIEW: ‘ENGLISH BEAUTY’ by BOB YAREHAM It is not often that a book comes along that not only changes your life but which also makes you laugh. This isn’t…

VI, Hemingway and Mediterraneo TV

VI, Hemingway and Mediterraneo TV

Valencia International’s new Hemingway and Welles route has stimulated interest from the Valencian media, and a TV crew followed the route with us in order to broadcast a report about…

Shadows in the Distance (2013)

Shadows in the Distance (2013)

Orlando Bosch, a Valencian director from Buñol, Valencia, living in Berlin, directs a film about an Italian radio personality who meets a German bookshop employee, with scenes in Berlin, Poland,…

Hemingway and Valencia

Hemingway and Valencia

A journalist from Valencia’s biggest selling Spanish newspaper, EMV Levante followed the merry band of brothers (and sisters) who inaugurated Valencia International’s Hemingway and Welles route. An extensive article was…

Happy Cinejove to Valencia

Happy Cinejove to Valencia

Valencia’s international film festival Cinejove is 30 years old this year, and once more it is opening its doors to Valencia, to the world, and especially to young, aspiring film…

Victor Manuel Blazquez: Killing the Thing you Love

Victor Manuel Blazquez: Killing the Thing you Love

I once drove past a herd of bulls in Cuenca and rolled up the window, that being the only extra protection available at the time. The idea then of standing…