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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 Grisolía’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 Grisolía – 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…

It’s nearly that time of the year again. Literary critics prepare to sharpen their pens in the hope of puncturing egos while promising new authors are launched onto the scene and publishers rub their hands with glee at the thought of elevated sales.

This year’s list is a classic, if one bears in mind that the Booker Prize inevitably becomes a battle between a young author with a dazzling, if untested, reputation and at least one venerable older writer. The contest becomes even more interesting if the established name has won the Booker Prize on at least one previous occasion.

Continue reading…The 2010 Booker Prize list mixes youth and experience…

“Our city cannot aspire to be modern without a clear commitment to respect the environment.”

So stated one valenciano councillor, thereby launching the city’s latest scheme, which aims to provide locals and visitors alike with cheap bike rental. Similar projects have already been launched and proved popular in Barcelona, Seville, Paris and Lyon, and it has been pointed out that, given Valencia’s reliable climate and lack of steep inclines, this is a city ripe for a rent and ride service.

Continue reading…Valencia’s Town Hall initiates bicycle rental scheme…

In an exciting new collaboration Armor Tech and Maybach recently announced the ArmorTech Maybach 57S Coupe.

Officially launched this year, the new car is the product of the coming together of Armor Tech, a Russian company specialising in the armouring and bullet proofing of luxury and performance cars, and Maybach, the luxury limousine division of Mercedes Benz.

Continue reading…ArmorTech Maybach 57S Coupe…

What is the weather going to be like tomorrow?

Throughout the year this is a question that most of us ask at least once a day. Whether we need to find out if we should carry an umbrella on a winter day or, during the summer, how few clothes we need to wear, the chances are that at least part of the reason that we turn on the radio or television in the morning is to find reliable meteorological information.

Continue reading…Weather Man: a meteorological superhero for our times!…