FEATURED POSTS
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Food 
6th April 2024 VEGAN & WHEAT-FREE ‘SPANISH TORTILLA’ BY HELEN WESTWATER OF ‘LA OLA FRESCA’
There’s an expression in Spanish ‘como agua en mayo’, for something that comes as a happy relief, be it water to soak dry fields or for money or even for an exciting new recipe, ‘Vegan tortilla!’ As regulars at ‘La Ola Fresca’ will know, it has become my favourite Spring delight but it is great […]
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Music 
4th April 2024 VALENCIA MUSIC…EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH TRUMPETER ‘VORO GARCIA’
24/7 Valencia: Tell us something about your background and musical education… Voro Garcia:Like the vast majority of Valencian children, I started playing (the trumpet) in the band of my local town. So, being a child I went through the tedious part of learning a wind instrument. Infact, it was not until the end of my […]
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books and documentaries 
4th April 2024 ROLLING STONE KEITH RICHARDS REMEMBERS VALENCIA…BRIAN JONES AND ANITA PALLENBERG
Rolling Stone Keith Richards has certainly led a full life when it comes to sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. It is to his credit that he has defied the critics and remembered many of his adventures, in all their colourful glory, via his best-selling autobiography ‘Life’… and ‘Keef’ is now 80 years old! Back in 1967, […]
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Music 
2nd April 2024 ‘ROY THOMPSON’ (ROCKIN´ RHYTHM AND BLUES) PLAYS ’16 TONELADAS’ ON 6 APRIL!
After several years in Canada, where Roy Thompson formed in 2003 a band called “Roy Thompson & His Royal Acadians”, and some tours in Canada, USA and Europe, playing in countries like France, England for the Rockabilly Rave, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Austria and Holland, backing artists like Billy Lee Riley and Eddie Bond, Roy decided […]
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Art 
1st April 2024 “THE EPHEMERAL SPIRIT OF DANCE” BY PHILAMONJARO AND SANDI GOODWIN AT ‘BLOOM GALLERY’ FROM 12 APRIL
Photographer Phil Solomonson, also known as Philamonjaro, and abstract painter Sandi Goodwin invite art lovers to experience the dynamic synergy of visual storytelling and kinetic expression in their collaborative exhibition, “Ephemeral Spirit of Dance.” The exhibition will be held at Bloom Gallery, Valencia from April 12th to 26th, 2024. Phil Solomonson is renowned for his […]
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Food 
1st April 2024 FOOD BY HELEN WESTWATER OF ‘LA OLA FRESCA’ ….CHIMICHURRI AND CARROT TOPS
If you get an organic veg box, you will find your vegetables don’t come neatly trimmed to fit their plastic container but bustling with a jungle of accompanying vegetation. Waste not, want not! Don’t throw it in the bin. These leaves and tops are the top of the pops… with nutrients of around six times […]
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Sports 
31st March 2024 VALENCIA FOOTBALL …THE POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES OF THE INTERNATIONAL BREAK
Every player loves to play for their country and at Valencia they have numerous players that inevitably get the call up to represent their nation when these matches come around. For the club itself, it becomes a double-edged sword as it brings accolades and additional media exposure to promote Valencia on and off the field, […]
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BOOKS 
30th March 2024 ‘LA COCINA DEL CABANYAL’
Marisa Villalba and Felip Bens have written the recipes and the texts of the book ‘La Cocina del Cabanyal’ in which the writers Pep Martorell, Sergi Tarín, Toni Sabater, Josep Vicent Miralles have also collaborated as well as the photographer Germán Caballero and María José Royo, to whom they owe the recipes for the desserts. […]
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Art 
28th March 2024 JOSE CARCAVILLA TAKES HIS EXHIBITION “ENTRE AMIGOS Y CAÑAS” TO ‘LAS CERVEZAS DEL MERCADO’ (VALENCIA)
Friendship, like beer, is a brew that nourishes the soul. This is the axiom that defines José Carcavilla’s exhibition, “Entre amigos y cañas” which has just opened at Las Cervezas del Mercado by BWK in Colón and in which this artist invites us to explore a universe full of imagination and originality. Both friendship and […]
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Health 
28th March 2024 A ‘SOUND BATH MEDITATION’ IN VALENCIA
In our increasingly busy world, meditation is becoming a more and more common practice in the western world, having originated in the ancient Vedic times of India as an aspect of their natural healthcare system. More recently, sound bath meditations have become of particular interest to many. Sound bath meditations utilise various sound frequencies to […]
