I was taking one of my strolls through the huerto at the edge of the city, where most of the produce that fed Valencia was once grown, and I took Read More

  Over the years the strangest things land on the terrace at the rear of my flat, and today’s little leaving was the strangest thing of all.   Read More

In the eleven years I’ve lived in Valencia city I’ve used the bus no more than a scant handful of times – and if the experience of Ian Nicol is Read More

  I was sauntering back from Mercadona this evening with an ecoligical bag full of last minute veg for Christmas, before stopping off at Consum Read More

  It might be any old upright piano to you and me, but it could bring more than $1 million when it’s sold at auction in New York next month. Read More

  For whatever reason we are discriminatory in our hearts is a private matter. But open racism–that’s a different thing altogether.       Read More

  I’m sat on the ground, leaning against the wall of the Ermita de Nuestra Sra. de los Desemparados, Our Lady of the Forsaken, in the Partida de Read More

  It won’t take much of a stretch of the imagination to know from the title that this is about that most wonderful of Chinese inventions, Read More