Friends of British Cemetery Appeal for Help
Dear Friends of the British Int. Cemetery, I have just posted this on our Friend´s page in Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/friendsvalenciabritishcementery (please give us a LIKE!) … and I think it says it all! …
Morella
There have been many attempts to market El Cid as a martyr to Christianity, fighting the good fight against the evil Moors. Franco liked to dress up as the great…
Olive Oil Museum
If you want to know how they used to make olive oil in the good old days, the good old days when a horse was an essential ingredient, then you…
English Actually: 40 Years in the Wilderness
40 years of teaching English as a foreign language, mainly in Valencia, has been the challenge faced by Bachelor of Education Bob Yareham (Hackney North 1954), as he explains for…
The European Youth Parliament selects Valencia
The European Youth Parliament selects Valencia 2019 to host it’s 90th International Session The European Youth Parliament has chosen Valencia as the city for its summer session of European debates…
Alicante, Guernica; Same Difference
Just after 11 am on a Wednesday 25th May 1938 around 8 Italian Savoia S-79 aircraft flew over the port of Alicante and launched their 90 bombs on and around…
Valencia Steps Up
It may not be the dawning of the age of Aquarius, but while Roman civilisation, home of Christianity among other things, stared down at its feet, Valencia stepped forward, and…
Ribalta School in Ghana
My name is Sara Rio Ortiz and I’m just 20 years old. Can you believe that I returned from Ghana three months ago? Now, I’m going to tell you why.…
Uclés: The Four Musketeers and More
You must remember this. The best four Musketeers ever (Michael York, Richard Chamberlain, Oliver Reed and Frank Finlay) pursue Rochefort and Milady (Christopher Lee and Fay Dunnaway) to a convent,…
Valencian Wetlands Welcome Promiscuous Warbler
The aquatic warbler has multiple offspring with multiple partners and is generally seen as a home-wrecker among ornithologists. Nevertheless, they are swamping Valencia’s extensive network of wetlands in their thousands.…
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