With The Expendables still doing excellent business at the box office, movie critics are predicting an upswing of interest in the action heroes of the 1980s. Older audiences are being offered a chance to reacquaint themselves with some of that era’s macho stars, while youngsters are enjoying their introduction to the appeal of Stallone, Lundgren, Rourke, Schwarzenegger and Willis.
Continue reading…Hollywood moves to Javea…
Chess is the sport of the mentally gifted and some great intellects were on display recently at Javea’s chess tournament. The competition was divided into four age groups: under 12s, under 14s, under 16s and adults, and with prize money and trophies on offer, a strongly competitive atmosphere prevailed.
Continue reading…Mind games galore at the XXII Chess Tournament Villa de Xábia…
As anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of the city and its surrounding areas knows, Valencia wears its beauty well. Like a classic movie star whose appearance is eternally youthful, Valencia offers the right perspective from the right property, whether it’s next door to a magnificent Rococo palace or close to innovative and inspirational ultra-modern buildings.
Continue reading…Views of Valencia…
Now that summer is at its height the very cultural town of Javea has decided to celebrate the season with a full-scale celebration of the Arts. On 26th, 27th and 28th of August the town will enjoy the best of architecture, the plastic arts, theatre and music. The participation of more than 80 artists means that visitors to this festival will have to plan their time carefully if they are to experience everything.
Continue reading…Javea’s Visual Week celebrates the finer things in life…
Connoisseurs of 1960s cartoons will probably react enthusiastically when Wacky Races is mentioned. This supremely silly story (and its equally popular offshoots, Dick Dastardly and Mutley in Their Flying Machines and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop) revolved around a race in which the contestants in an ongoing race pit their wits against each other – and cheat frequently!
Continue reading…Wacky racers head for Valencia in the Ramshackle Rally…
Though just 13 when the Civil War broke out, Santiago GrisolÃa’s parents thought it better to get him out of harm’s way and send him to Cuenca, where his father had contacts in a local hospital. Taller than most, he stood a chance of being recruited into the war machine, so he moved from his native Valencia to the picturesque hilltop town to begin working in a hospital at a time when most thirteen year-olds would still be at school.
Adulthood came early to Santiago, but then again, his intellectual gifts and fascination with chemistry and medicine made him take to his new environment with typical gusto. Adaptability and perseverance would become important personal traits, easily as valuable as his scientific abilities in what was to be a long and varied academic and research career.
An early start
With all the informality of the age and the situation they found themselves in, young Santiago was given some chemistry and medicine textbooks to get through before becoming an active member of the hospital’s soon overburdened team. Continue reading…Santiago GrisolÃa – a life in the service of science…
There is a feast of entertainment on Friday 20th August and Saturday 21st, starting at 10:00 until 15:00hrs on Friday with a Sailing Regatta, which will enable teams and students of sailing to pit their wits and their skills against each other to find out who is fastest and most alert. At 19:30hrs there will be a barbecue at which the winners will be awarded with their trophies.
Continue reading…A weekend of events at Real Club Nautico Dénia…
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